Broadmoor Patient and Jack the Ripper suspect.
He was the illegitimate son of 15 year old Sarah Kelly. From there he is raised by Teresa (Sarah's mom).
Left school at the age of 13 and gets a job as an upholsterer.
He marries Sarah Brider in 1883, but things go bad for James Kelly. He is fired from his upholsterer job because his boss says "he was obviously not right in the head". He then takes his anger out on Sarah claiming that she is cheating on him with men on the street. Then on June 21st, 1883 he murders his wife by stabbing her in the neck.
The courts find him guilty and sentence him to hang, but his boss comes forward and tells them about his mental problems. He is examined by doctors and they conclude he is mentally in-sane.
From 1883 to 1888 he stays at Broadmoor Asylum. According to records on Kelly, he begins playing the vioin in the asylum band and worked at the asylum garden.
But on January 23rd, 1888 he and a fellow prisoner escape from Broadmoor, it was later determend that Kelly had made a model of the key so that he could open his cell gate.
From August through November of 1888, the murders of Jack the Ripper are commetted in London. After the grusome murder of Mary Jane Kelly (no relations to James Kelly) the police start looking for James Kelly as a possible suspect in the Ripper killings, but they never find him.
Thirty-nine years after his escape, James Kelly turns himself back to Broadmoor. By now he is in poor health and his nearly deaf, but he writes out a confession that he had been on a "warpath" against women since his escape from Broadmoor.
James Kelly dies two years later at the Asylum.
In the Discovery Channel program called "Jack the Ripper in America", a retired NYPD detective named Ed Norris believes James Kelly was Jack the Ripper and that he commetted Jack the Ripper style murders in America. Ed proves that Kelly did come to America in 1890 and there were unsolved cases of prostitutes murdered in the 1890's that were simular to Jack the Ripper and also in the confession of Kelly, he addmitted being in those cities.
He was the illegitimate son of 15 year old Sarah Kelly. From there he is raised by Teresa (Sarah's mom).
Left school at the age of 13 and gets a job as an upholsterer.
He marries Sarah Brider in 1883, but things go bad for James Kelly. He is fired from his upholsterer job because his boss says "he was obviously not right in the head". He then takes his anger out on Sarah claiming that she is cheating on him with men on the street. Then on June 21st, 1883 he murders his wife by stabbing her in the neck.
The courts find him guilty and sentence him to hang, but his boss comes forward and tells them about his mental problems. He is examined by doctors and they conclude he is mentally in-sane.
From 1883 to 1888 he stays at Broadmoor Asylum. According to records on Kelly, he begins playing the vioin in the asylum band and worked at the asylum garden.
But on January 23rd, 1888 he and a fellow prisoner escape from Broadmoor, it was later determend that Kelly had made a model of the key so that he could open his cell gate.
From August through November of 1888, the murders of Jack the Ripper are commetted in London. After the grusome murder of Mary Jane Kelly (no relations to James Kelly) the police start looking for James Kelly as a possible suspect in the Ripper killings, but they never find him.
Thirty-nine years after his escape, James Kelly turns himself back to Broadmoor. By now he is in poor health and his nearly deaf, but he writes out a confession that he had been on a "warpath" against women since his escape from Broadmoor.
James Kelly dies two years later at the Asylum.
In the Discovery Channel program called "Jack the Ripper in America", a retired NYPD detective named Ed Norris believes James Kelly was Jack the Ripper and that he commetted Jack the Ripper style murders in America. Ed proves that Kelly did come to America in 1890 and there were unsolved cases of prostitutes murdered in the 1890's that were simular to Jack the Ripper and also in the confession of Kelly, he addmitted being in those cities.
Broadmoor Patient and Jack the Ripper suspect.
He was the illegitimate son of 15 year old Sarah Kelly. From there he is raised by Teresa (Sarah's mom).
Left school at the age of 13 and gets a job as an upholsterer.
He marries Sarah Brider in 1883, but things go bad for James Kelly. He is fired from his upholsterer job because his boss says "he was obviously not right in the head". He then takes his anger out on Sarah claiming that she is cheating on him with men on the street. Then on June 21st, 1883 he murders his wife by stabbing her in the neck.
The courts find him guilty and sentence him to hang, but his boss comes forward and tells them about his mental problems. He is examined by doctors and they conclude he is mentally in-sane.
From 1883 to 1888 he stays at Broadmoor Asylum. According to records on Kelly, he begins playing the vioin in the asylum band and worked at the asylum garden.
But on January 23rd, 1888 he and a fellow prisoner escape from Broadmoor, it was later determend that Kelly had made a model of the key so that he could open his cell gate.
From August through November of 1888, the murders of Jack the Ripper are commetted in London. After the grusome murder of Mary Jane Kelly (no relations to James Kelly) the police start looking for James Kelly as a possible suspect in the Ripper killings, but they never find him.
Thirty-nine years after his escape, James Kelly turns himself back to Broadmoor. By now he is in poor health and his nearly deaf, but he writes out a confession that he had been on a "warpath" against women since his escape from Broadmoor.
James Kelly dies two years later at the Asylum.
In the Discovery Channel program called "Jack the Ripper in America", a retired NYPD detective named Ed Norris believes James Kelly was Jack the Ripper and that he commetted Jack the Ripper style murders in America. Ed proves that Kelly did come to America in 1890 and there were unsolved cases of prostitutes murdered in the 1890's that were simular to Jack the Ripper and also in the confession of Kelly, he addmitted being in those cities.
He was the illegitimate son of 15 year old Sarah Kelly. From there he is raised by Teresa (Sarah's mom).
Left school at the age of 13 and gets a job as an upholsterer.
He marries Sarah Brider in 1883, but things go bad for James Kelly. He is fired from his upholsterer job because his boss says "he was obviously not right in the head". He then takes his anger out on Sarah claiming that she is cheating on him with men on the street. Then on June 21st, 1883 he murders his wife by stabbing her in the neck.
The courts find him guilty and sentence him to hang, but his boss comes forward and tells them about his mental problems. He is examined by doctors and they conclude he is mentally in-sane.
From 1883 to 1888 he stays at Broadmoor Asylum. According to records on Kelly, he begins playing the vioin in the asylum band and worked at the asylum garden.
But on January 23rd, 1888 he and a fellow prisoner escape from Broadmoor, it was later determend that Kelly had made a model of the key so that he could open his cell gate.
From August through November of 1888, the murders of Jack the Ripper are commetted in London. After the grusome murder of Mary Jane Kelly (no relations to James Kelly) the police start looking for James Kelly as a possible suspect in the Ripper killings, but they never find him.
Thirty-nine years after his escape, James Kelly turns himself back to Broadmoor. By now he is in poor health and his nearly deaf, but he writes out a confession that he had been on a "warpath" against women since his escape from Broadmoor.
James Kelly dies two years later at the Asylum.
In the Discovery Channel program called "Jack the Ripper in America", a retired NYPD detective named Ed Norris believes James Kelly was Jack the Ripper and that he commetted Jack the Ripper style murders in America. Ed proves that Kelly did come to America in 1890 and there were unsolved cases of prostitutes murdered in the 1890's that were simular to Jack the Ripper and also in the confession of Kelly, he addmitted being in those cities.
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