[ WP ] Jack the Ripper in custody speaking with a constable about the motivation for his crimes .

CASE FILE # 13489 INT. NOTES 
 
 PC GODFREY SMINT 
 
 `` Ripper'' suspect a squat male ( 5'4'' ) w/ pale skin, brown eyes and close clipped grey hair. Age indeterminate, poss late forties. Large, crude tattoo `` I AM JACK THE RIPPER'' cross forehead. Wearing tall hat made of victims organs. Prob should have been caught sooner. Sus's manner relaxed and jovial. Happy to discuss crimes: Details, motives, etc. Transcript follows. 
 
 SMINT: Why did you commit these terrible murders? 
 
 SUSPECT: Why else lad? For the fame! Every man, woman and child in England's heard o'the Ripper, ai n't they? 
 
 SMINT: Surely that is infamy, not fame? 
 
 SUSPECT: They've all got it infamy! ( laughter ) But really, fame is fame, lad. Do n't matter what it's for. Tell me this, in a hundred years time, who'd you reckon'll have heard of police constable Smint? 
 
 SMINT: I really could n't say. 
 
 SUSPECT: Well if it were n't for me, it'd be nobody. If you ai n't a king or a pope or a filthy rich bastard, you wo n't make any mark on this world. In a generation you'll be forgot. An if you're forgot, what's the point? 
 
 SMINT: The point is live a good Christian life and be rewarded in Heaven, is it not? 
 
 SUSPECT: Aye, if you're a sunday school teacher maybe. I ai n't worried about some other world I've never seen, I'm worried about this one. An' people'll remember PC Smint, but only'cause they remember me. 
 
 SIMNT: As a vicious killer, who preyed on the most vulnerable, and defiled their corpses. 
 
 SUSPECT: Exactly! See it were all thought through. There's being whores made it easy, but it adds a bitta sex to the story as well. And people love gore as well, so I chopped them up. Took their guts to add a touch of mystery, even a hint o'the occult. 
 
 You might think all that's mad, but it's worked, ai n't it? Jus' look at the papers. Ripper this, Ripper that, every day. People'll be talkin' and writin' about me for years. I'll be remembered. 
 
 SMINT: There are other ways to be remembered, as a great artist or composer. 
 
 SUSPECT: Do I look like one of them? I never had no talent in my life.'Cept maybe for killing, it turned out. I composed me own legacy in whore's blood on cobblestones. And your legacy too, as a little spot in mine. That'll be what PC Smint is remembered for, apprehending the Ripper. People'll call me a monster. They'll call me the devil and worse, no doubt. But they'll remember me.
