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carl ferdinand, Feigenbaum, Germany, hatred of women, Hugh O. Pentecost, Jack the Ripper, Jew, Murder, murder squad, murders in the united states, New York City, Puck, ripper murders, Tom Merry, United States, Whitechapel, william sanford
Joel Lebowitz and Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Brussels 1998 (Photo credit: birdtracks)
Suspected to be a Jew Carl Ferdinand Feigenbaum (executed 27 April 1896) was arrested in 1894 in New York City for cutting the throat of Mrs Juliana Hoffmann. After his execution, his lawyer, William Sanford Lawton, claimed that Feigenbaum had admitted to having a hatred of women and a desire to kill and mutilate them. Lawton further stated that he believed Feigenbaum was Jack the Ripper. Though covered by the press at the time, the idea was not pursued for more than a century. Using Lawton’s accusation as a base, author Trevor Marriott, a former British murder squad detective, argued that Feigenbaum was responsible for the Ripper murders as well as other murders in the United States and Germany between 1891 and 1894.
The cover of the 21 September 1889 issue of Puck magazine, featuring cartoonist Tom Merry's depiction of the unidentified Whitechapel murderer Jack the Ripper.
According to Wolf Vanderlinden, some of the murders listed by Marriott did not actually occur; the newspapers often embellished or created Ripper-like stories to sell copy. Lawton’s accusations were disputed by a partner in his legal firm, Hugh O. Pentecost, and there is no proof that Feigenbaum was in Whitechapel at the time of the murders
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