Mr Justice Crowley sent John Palmer to York Castle Prison on 16th October 1638, it was here about four months later that the true identity of John Palmer became known, not the small time Sheep and Horse thief, murderer of nothing more than a Cockerel, but he was Richard "Dick" Turpin, murderer of his own accomplice in crime and the infamous Highwayman!
Cornwell’s other main arguments for Sickert being the Ripper were: his paintings reveal knowledge and guilt of the Whitechapel murders, and that an operation he had when he was young left him with a deformed and malfunctioning penis – a condition that a serial killer such as the Ripper may have been suffering from. While she’s right in assuming that the Ripper may have been sexually deficient, and this rage was likely part of his murderous pathology, it’s never been proven that Walter Sickert did have such a problem (all evidence suggests he was in fact quite the ladies man and had numerous affairs), and it’s been said that his operation was rectal, not penile.
If something gives you the willies, it makes you feel nervous or frightened. This place gives me the willies. Living on the mountainside is enough to give anyone the willies — especially when the wolves howl.
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