Portrait of a Killer

by Patricia Cornwell

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  INDEX

  Abberline, Frederick George (police inspector)

  and Kelly murder

  Actors

  psychopathic murderers as

  Sickert as

  Addictions, Sickert and

  Adhesives

  Affaire de Camden Town, L’ (painting), Sickert

  Age of victim, estimates of

  Air pollution, nineteenth-century London

  Alcoholism

  of Annie Chapman

  of Mary Kelly

  Sickert and

  Alexander Pirie & Sons, Ltd.

  See also A Pirie & Sons watermarks

  Alibis, Sickert and

  Ambient temperature

  Ambulances

  American art student story

  Anatomy, knowledge of

  Anesthetics

  surgery without

  Anger, and psychopathy

  Angus, Christine Drummond

  See also Sickert, Christine Angus

  Angus, D. D. (descendant of Christine Angus’s family)

  Angus, John

  Anonymous letters to newspapers

  Anthropology, forensic

  Anthropometry

  Antisocial behaviors

  A Pirie & Sons watermarks

  Appearance of Sickert changes of

  Architecture, interest in

  Arm, severed

  Arnold (H Division superintendent)

  Arsonists

  Art criticism, Sickert and

  Artist

  destruction of paintings

  Sickert as

  Art Weekly

  Artworks

  Ripper letters as

  by Sickert

  exhibitions

  female nudes

  male nudes

  murder scenes

  music-hall sketches

  Normandy paintings

  Punch and Judy figures

  religious themes

  signature on

  uncatalogued

  violence to women

  World War I era

  See also Paintings by Sickert; Sketches by Sickert

  Ashton, Harold

  Authority:

  Oswald Sickert and

  Walter Sickert and

  Automobile, owned by Sickert

  Autopsies

  Autopsy reports of Ripper murders

  Catherine Eddows

  loss of

  Bank holiday, Victorian London

  Barnett, Joseph

  Baron, Wendy

  Barrett (police constable)

  Barrett, William

  Basements, dark

  Basket Shop, The (painting), Sickert

  Battersea Bridge

  Baxter, Wynne Edwin (coroner)

  Bedford Music Hall

  Beetmoor, Jane, murder of

  anonymous letter to The Times and

  Behavior, psychopathic

  Beheadings

  Bell, Clive

  Bell’s Great Operations of Surgery

  Bellwood, Bessie

  Bertillon, Alphonse

  Besant, Annie

  Bethnal Green, London

  Bird, Maggie

  Birth control, Victorian views

  Birtley, Durham, murder in

  Bishopsgate Police Station

  Blanche, Jacques-Emile

  letters from Sickert

  and Sickert marriage

  Bleak House, Dickens

  Blood

  at Chapman murder scene

  knowledge about, Victorian era

  spatter patterns

  Bloodhounds

  Warren and

  Blood poison, prostitution as

  Bloody cloth, Eddows murder

  Bloody Sunday

  Bode Technology Group, The

  Body, as murder evidence

  Body fluids

  testing of

  Body parts

  disposition of

  preservation of

  severed arm

  severed leg

  Sickert and

  stealing of

  Body snatchers

  Body temperature

  Bond, Thomas (police surgeon)

  and Kelly murder

  and McKenzie murder

  and unidentified torso

  Bonus (Angus family lawyer)

  Booth, William

  Bottle, Ripper letter in

  Bower, Peter

  Bower, Sally

  Bow Street Patrol/Runners

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sp; Bowyer, Thomas

  Boxing, Sickert and

  Boys, murders of

  Bradford, Yorkshire

  Bradlaugh, Charles

  Bradshaw’s Railway Guide

  Brain abnormalities of psychopaths

  Brandy warehouse fire

  Brierly, Alfred

  Bright, John

  Britain, Tate

  British Association, annual meeting

  Broadhurst Gardens, Sickert home

  stationery

  Broadstairs (painting), Sickert

  Brown, Gordon (police surgeon)

  and Eddows murder

  Brown, James

  Browse, Lillian

  Buchanan, William

  letter to The Times

  Buckle, Joseph

  Buildings, paintings of

  Bull’s-eye lanterns

  Bundy, Ted

  Burning at stake

  Cadosch, Albert

  Camden Town, London

  Bedford Music Hall

  murder in

  paintings of

  Sickert’s studio

  Camden Town Murder, The, (painting), Sickert

  Cannibalism

  Captivity, psychopaths and

  Carnival, crime scene as

  Case, Miss E.

  Case records, sealing of

  Casper, Johann Ludwig

  Casual wards

  Celebrities, Sickert and

  Central Finger Print Bureau, Scotland Yard

  Chambers, Robert

  Chandler, Joseph (police inspector)

  Chapman, Annie

  burial of

  murder of

  conflicting witness statements

  Childhood abuse, and psychopathy

  Children:

  female, as music-hall performers

  murders of

  Sickert and

  surgery on

  Chinn (Nelson Tavern proprietor)

  Chloroform

  Christian VIII (king of Denmark)

  Christianity, Sickert and

  Church, Sickert and

  Churchill, Winston

  City of London

  Mitre Square

  City of London Police:

  and Beetmoor murder

  and Eddows murder

  Ripper letters

  Clarence, Edward, Duke of

  Class system, problems of

  Clipping book kept by Abberline

  Clothing:

  cutting through

  as evidence

  worn by Ripper

  Clues:

  in Cornwall guest book

  to Dimmock murder, postcards

  to Eddows murder

  to Gill murder

  present-day technology and

  in Ripper letters

  mishandled

  in Sickert’s artworks

  Coal, as fuel

  Cobden, Ellen Melicent Ashburner

  after father’s death

  See also Sickert, Ellen Cobden

  Cobden, Janie

  feminism of

  letters

  and Sickert

  Cobden, Kate (Mrs. Richard)

  Cobden, Katie (daughter)

  Cobden, Richard

  statue of

  Cobden, Richard Brooks (son)

  Coles, Frances

  Computerized image enhancement

  Conduit Street, London

  Connolly, Mary Ann “Pearly Poll”

  Conscience, psychopaths and

  Conspiracy theories

  Constables

  Contraception, Victorian views

  Control, loss of

  Conway, Thomas

  Cooper, Alfred Duff

  Cooper, Eliza

  Coram, Thomas

  Coriolanus, Shakespeare

  Corn Laws, repeal of

  Cornwall

  Sickert connection

  Coroners

  Coroner’s court, England

  Corporation of London Records Office “Whitechapel Murders” file

  Cosmetics

  Coveralls, white, worn by Sickert

  Cox, Mary Ann

  Cremation

  Crimes:

  Sickert’s interest in

  solution of

  Crime scenes:

  Eddows murder

  Kelly murder

  Nichols murder

  photographs of

  present-day management of

  Ripper murders

  Tabran murder

  Crime scene scope

  Criminal Investigation Department (CID)

  Criminal population, psychopathy in

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Cross, Charles

  Crow, Alfred

  Cut throats

  Cymbeline, Shakespeare

  Daily Chronicle

  Daily Telegraph, The

  Dairyman, peculiar experience

  Damaging information about Sickert, publication of

  Darwin, Charles, Expression of the Emotions

  Davis, John

  Days of My Years, Macnaghten

  Dead bodies

  sketches of

  Death

  causes of

  stab wound to heart

  investigation objective

  psychopaths and

  violent, Cornwell and

  Death and the Maiden (painting), Sickert

  Death inquests. See Inquests

  Deduction errors

  Chapman murder

  Dimmock murder

  Eddows murder

  Gill murder

  severed arm

  Stride murder

  Tabran murder

  Degas, Edgar

  Delusional thinking

  Depression, psychological

  Despair (painting), Sickert

  Detectives, Metropolitan Police

  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and psychopathy

  Diary, of Abberline

  Dickens, Charles

  Bleak House

  surgery without anesthesia

  Die Fliegende Blatter

  Diemschutz, Louis

  Dieppe, France

  Sickert’s friends in

  Dimmock, Emily

  murder of

  Sickert and

  Disappearances

  of Sickert

  of Sickert associates

  Discrepancies in police reports

  Disease:

  fear of

  prostitution as

  Disguises

  Ripper and

  Sickert and

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  Divisional surgeons, Metropolitan Police

  Divorce of Sickerts

  Djambia (Oriental dagger)

  DNA:

  of Sickert, lack of

  testing

  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (play)

  See also The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson

  Documents, missing from Ripper cases

  Donovan, John

  Doss-houses

  Drugs, Sickert and

  Druitt, Montague John

  DNA tests

  Druitt, Robert

  Druitt, William

  Drunkenness, Victorian views

  Du Jardin, Karel

  Duke (doctor from Spitalfields)

  Dunoyer de Segonzac, André

  East End, London, Victorian era

  causes of death

  female torso found in

  mortuary

  and Ripper

  Sickert and

  vigilance committee

  East London, Victorian era

  East London Observer

  Echo

  Eddows, Catherine

  murder of

  facial mutilation

  mortuary photograph

  Eden, Sir William

  Edison, Thomas

  Editors, letters to

  “Elderly Gentleman” letter to The Times

  �
��Elephant Man” (Joseph Carey Merrick)

  Ellis, George Viner, Illustrations of Dissections

  Emaciated females, Sickert and

  Emmons, Robert

  Employment, for women

  England, murder investigations

  English Channel crossings

  English Review, The, Sickert article

  Ennui (painting), Sickert

  Envelopes, difficulty in testing

  Environmental pollution, nineteenth-century London

  Epispadias

  Eriugena, Johannes Scotus

  Escape route, from Chapman murder

  Etching ground, bloodlike

  Evans, Stewart P., Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell

  Evening Standard, and Camden Town murder paintings

  Events, peculiar

  Evidence in Ripper murders

  collection of

  Eddows murder

  mishandling of

  Executions, public

  Exhibitions of Sickert’s works

  Expression of the Emotions, Darwin

  Eyes of dead people

  Facial mutilations

  Fair at Night, Dieppe, The (painting), Sickert

  Fairstein, Linda

  Famous Crimes

  Fantasies, psychopathic

  Female orgasm, Victorian views

  Female remains, unidentified

  Feminism, Victorian era

  Ferrara, Paul

  Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen

  Fielding, Henry

  Fielding, John

  Fierro, Marcella

  Finances:

  Oswald Sickert and

  Walter Sickert and

  Fingerprints

  Fisher, Richard

  Fistulas

  surgeries for

  Flemish hounds. See Bloodhounds

  Fliegende Blatter, Die

  Fog, London

  Forensic pathologists

  Forensic science

  anthropology

  blood spatter patterns

  and Chapman murder scene

  facial reconstructions

  testing of Ripper letters

  Victorian era

  Sickert’s knowledge of

  Foster, Frederick William

  France:

  Sickert’s move to

  travel from England

  unsolved murders

  François, Madame, unsolved murder

  From Constable to Commissioner, Smith

  Frontal lobe of brain

  abnormality of, and psychopathy

  Funerals of victims, murderers at

  Fuseli (artist)

  Galton, Francis

  Gambling, Sickert and

  Games, psychopathic

  Garrotting

  Gatti’s Hungerford Palace of Varieties

  Ripper and

  Sickert’s sketches

  Gender, ambiguity of

  Genetic markers

  Genitals, malformation of

  “Gentleman slummer,” Sickert as

  George Yard Buildings, murder of Tabran

  Gide, André

  Gill, John

  murder of

  Giuseppina (Venetian prostitute)