that the vast majority of readers to this thread would opt for one of those. Quote: However! I do NOT think that we ought to work from the assumption that a guy who grew up in St Georges, in comfortable walking distance from ALL the murder venues, and who had been learning how to traverse the East End streets in a professional capacity for more than twenty years, before which he had walked the same streets in an unprofessional capacity in a further one and a half decade,would be unaquainted with that area in any sense at all. I don't doubt that a man who had grown up in St. Georges would be familiar with the streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields in a general sense, but would that familiarity extend to knowing the quickest routes (to the nearest 30 seconds!) between a specific area in Bethnal Green and a specific area near Livepool Street? A lot more doubtful. My point was that Cross was new to that particular residence, and had no obvious reason to investigate routes from that residence until he lived there. There would not, therefore, be any "anomaly" at all in taking a nice, short, convenient route to work that was nonetheless not THE shortest. Quote: He was the killer, he wanted to find out how much Paul knew, and wanted to see where he worked, so that he could get to him if he wanted to in the future. "Get to him" in what sense? If