Jack the Ripper Suspect – Walter Sickert

The artist Walter Sickert was first mentioned as a possible Jack the Ripper suspect in Donald McCormick’s 1959 book The Identity of Jack the Ripper.

Sickert later surfaced as a character in the royal/masonic conspiracy theory concocted by Joseph Gorman, who claimed to be Sickert’s illegitimate son.

The theory was later expanded on by author Jean Overton Fuller, and by crime novelist Patricia Cornwell in her book Portrait of a Killer.

However, Sickert has never been considered a serious suspect by most Ripperologists, and there is strong evidence that he was in France at the time of most of the Ripper murders.

Conclusion: Walter Richard Sickert was not Jack the Ripper.