Another major theory that people have off jack the ripper is that jack the ripper was a man with the name off James Maybrick. James Maybrick was a cotton merchant that lived in Liverpool around the time period off the mid-1800s. In the later 1880s a letter was sent to a Liverpool newspaper. At the end of the letter Jack the rippers signed with Diego Laurenz. " `Diego' is Spanish for James, while `Laurenz' is meant to rhyme with `Florence'. If this is what it means, then this constitutes virtual proof that James Maybrick was Jack the Ripper" (Rubinstein, William D. "THE HUNT FOR Jack the Ripper). This is just one theory of Jack the ripper, another reason why people think Jack the Ripper is James Maybrick is because the Journal was found at his
