Dr Percy Clark, assistant to the examining pathologist George Bagster Phillips, linked only three of the murders and thought that the others were perpetrated by "weak-minded individual ... induced to emulate the crime".
O doutor Percy Clark, axudante do forense George Bagster Phillips, pensaba que tan só tres dos asasinatos estaban ligados e que os outros foran perpetrados por "individuo(s) sen carácter ... inducidos a emular o crime".