Jack the Ripper Suspect – Michael Ostrog

Ostrog was a professional con man, born in Russia.

His many aliases include: Bertrand Ashley, Claude Clayton (Cayton), Dr. Grant, Max Grief Gosslar, Ashley Nabokoff, M. Orloff, Count Sobieski, Max Sobiekski.

He had a long history of petty crime and was in and out of prisons and asylums on a regular basis. One of his spells out of prison lasted from March 1888 to November 1888, so he possibly could have been Jack the Ripper.

Ostrog was first mentioned as a suspect in the McNaughten memorandum, as a mad doctor and a homicidal maniac. He was said to have been habitually cruel to women, and carried surgical knives and other instruments.

There is no evidence against Ostrog as a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case, and in fact, according to Author Philip Sugden, there are prison records showing that Ostrog was jailed for petty offences in France during the Ripper murders.

Conclusion: It is highly unlikely the Michael Ostrog was Jack the Ripper.