here's a great quote we can use on our form for Mark. I think it sums up our Ripperology ideas about the influence of fiction over the facts of the crimes;

"Over the years the mystery has deepened to the degree that the truth is almost totally obscured. Innumerable press stories, pamphlets, books, plays, films, and even musicals have dramatised and distorted the facts to such a degree that the fiction is publicly accepted more than the reality."

taken from: http://www.met.police.uk/history/ripper.htm