Technology Catches Famous Serial Psychopath: Jack the Ripper and Gary Ridgeway

Most serial murderers kill for the pleasure and simply because it’s an act of anger. Most of these individuals share predictable behaviors stemming from historical serial murderers whom they admire and powerful, wealthy men that they want to become.

Serial butchers are often trophy hunters. They will remove parts of the body and display them in their homes as if they are proud, much like a hunter does when he shoots an animal for the sole purpose of stuffing it for display on their mantle.

Often times, these patterns start to depict the same kind of gruesome events that led Jack the Ripper to be one of the most notoriously known killers in 1888. Jack the Ripper would often remove the uterus and the heart of almost every one of his victims. That may have been the reasoning behind the name “The Butcher”.

For years, Pro filers have been obsessed by the fact that Jack the Ripper may have been a Doctor or had some type of medical training. However, due to some advanced technology and skilled professionals, they may have come to the conclusion he was neither of these.

Crime has been evolving over the centuries. It has inevitably become harder to catch these individuals but, new technologies have been developed and we now have an advanced system to target these killers.

A system called Viggell is being used by Geographic Pro filers that breaks down the location of the supposive killer using a math program that creates a 3 dimensional mountain outlined and shaded in different colors. When the profiler plugs in the information; the highest targeted area is highlighted in red, this being called “The Red Summit”. This is the area in which the profilers will most likely catch the killers.

When the area is targeted, the profiler will visit the site and determine why the killer chose this vicinity. They will examine the ease of access and the escape routes these killers may have considered. The result that is determined is called the “Jeopardy Surface”.

Since killers tend to hunt in areas they know, computers are now able to pinpoint locations of these serial murderers. This was recently done with the information on file for Jack the Ripper.

They discovered that Jack would only hunt on the weekends, he would choose his victims on the basis of their age, and he only killed in areas he was familiar with, like Buck’s Row in White Chapel.

He did have a pattern, which was hard to discover back in 1988. He would usually hunt in this order: