Dr. Thomas Neill Cream

Can we absolutely rule Dr. Thomas Neill Cream out as a suspect? Records apparently show that he was in prison at the time. He was an accomplished killer in his own right, so why would he claim to be JTR at the moment of his hanging?

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To accept this man as a suspect we must first attempt to link any evidence we can to him being the Whitechapel murderer. I fear he is a gap lacking in my knowledge of JtR so I must do some homework on him before I value his candidacy as Jack the Ripper, however as records point, this is obviously an almost straight away nail in the coffin for this theory. Perhaps he wanted to add some extra fame for himself or turn the case on its head once more? Do you know how he murdered his own victims, since the modus operandi would be a huge giveaway to this style of murderer. I would highly doubt that from this perspective he was JtR, who seems fresh and new to killing as we see how his method progresses to fulfil his twisted sexual desires. Plus it is a well known fact that few serial killers change their style in murder once it has got going, and if Cream was the murderer he would have flown completely off course to his usual job depending on the style which he carried out.