Saucy Jack: Alias Jack the Ripper
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The police tried to catch him, reporters covered him, the public tried to avoid him: Saucy Jack: Alias Jack the Ripper
Sex, mutilation and murder in Victorian England. In the fall of 1888, the most famous serial killer in history viciously attacked women, leaving crime scenes that forever haunted the minds of those who saw them and filled them with a single-minded resolve to apprehend the murderer. They never did. Although the murderer is known throughout the world as Jack the Ripper, the name he used on some of his taunting notes to the press and police tells far more psychologically about his demented personality: Saucy Jack. (90% fact, 10% fiction based on extensive primary and secondary research).
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Neil W. Macdonald was an accomplished writer. He published The League that Lasted and Saucy Jack: Alias Jack the Ripper. After graduating with honours from Duke of Connaught High School in New Westminster, BC, he earned bachelors (1958) and masters (1960) degrees in psychology from UBC, a masters in journalism (1967) from the University of Oregon, a PhD in mass communications (1966) from the University of Minnesota, and, late in life, a masters in physical education (1991) from UBC. Neil was a true renaissance man. As a young man he was invited to a Pittsburgh Pirates training camp only to have his pro baseball dreams cut short by rheumatic fever. In college, he became a reporter, covering crime and then sports for the Vancouver Province and the Eugene Register-Guard, which he always said were the happiest days of his life, covering the BC Lions and sports across Oregon. He won a national award for an article in Old Oregon and later in life wrote book reviews for the Vancouver Sun and was a sports reporter for The Northern Light in Blaine, WA. He became a psychology professor and taught briefly at St. Francis Xavier University, Laurentian University, BCIT, and for almost thirty years at Vancouver City College (VCC). For a time he taught at two colleges at once: VCC and Douglas College. Year after year he earned the highest possible student reviews for his entertaining lecturing style. He wrote, produced and hosted a cable television show on psychology in the 1970s that won a Canadian national cable award, and reported sports on the radio.
