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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Michael_OstrogMichael Ostrog - Wikipedia

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   Various. Michael Ostrog (c. 1833 – after 1904) was a Russian criminal and Jack the Ripper suspect, first proposed in a memorandum by Sir Melville Macnaghten in 1894. Ostrog was a swindler with a profuse police record who perpetrated multiple scams and frauds, but it was never proven that he committed any murders.

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3. www.jack-the-ripper.org › ostrogMichael Ostrog - Jack the Ripper Suspect

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   May 28, 2024 · Michael Ostrog was a Russian doctor and a convict who was certified insane and sent to a lunatic asylum in 1888. He was one of the suspects named by Melville Macnaghten, but his whereabouts and behavior suggest he was not involved in the Ripper murders.

4. www.casebook.org › suspects › ostrogCasebook: Jack the Ripper - Michael Ostrog

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   Michael Ostrog was a notorious criminal and a suspect in the Whitechapel murders. Learn about his biography, aliases, crimes, and physical description from historical records and photographs.

5. thejacktherippertour.com › suspects › michael-ostrogMichael Ostrog - JackTheRipper

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   Michael Ostrog was a Russian-born criminal who spent his life in and out of prisons in the UK and France. He was proposed as a possible Jack the Ripper suspect by a police officer in 1894, but his alibi for the murder dates is strong.

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jack_the_Ripper_suspectsJack the Ripper suspects - Wikipedia

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   Michael Ostrog. Michael Ostrog (c. 1833–in or after 1904) was a Russian-born professional con man and thief. He used numerous aliases and assumed titles. Among his many dubious claims was that he had once been a surgeon in the Russian Navy. He was mentioned as a suspect by Macnaghten, who joined the case in 1889, the year after the "canonical ...

7. crimelibrary.org › notorious › ripperMichael Ostrog — Jack the Ripper, the most famous serial ...

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   Michael Ostrog is the last and least plausible of Sir Melville Macnaghten's three suspects. He was a thief and confidence man who used many aliases. He often represented himself as an impoverished Polish nobleman. He spent a good amount of his life in jail, but he was completely unrepentant.

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   Who was Michael Ostrog?

   • Michael Ostrog (c. 1833 – after 1904) was a Russian criminal and Jack the Ripper suspect, first proposed in a memorandum by Sir Melville Macnaghten in 1894. Ostrog was a swindler with a profuse police record who perpetrated multiple scams and frauds, but it was never proven that he committed any murders.

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   What happened to Michael Ostrog?

   • Over the next few years, Michael Ostrog was periodically in and out of prisons, the asylum, and the country. The exact details still remain unclear, and much of his later life is muddy. However, we do know that all the information about Michael Ostrog disappears from 1904 onwards. No more arrests, recorded crimes, press reports, or sightings.

   Michael Ostrog - JackTheRipper

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   Was Michael Ostrog in prison?

   • The evidence remains inconclusive. Additionally, a contemporary investigation found that Michael Ostrog was actually in prison in France in 1888, at the time when the Ripper murders took place.

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   Was Ostrog a suspect?

   • He had claimed to be a surgeon; he was a known criminal; and he had been in a lunatic asylum. His lying had made him a suspect even though he was no more a surgeon than he was a Polish nobleman. His insanity was conjured up when it suited him. It is worthwhile to compare Ostrog as a suspect anyway.

   Michael Ostrog — Jack the Ripper, the most famous serial killer of all

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9. www.britannica.com › biography › Michael-OstrogMichael Ostrog | Jack the Ripper suspect | Britannica

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   In Jack the Ripper. …and was later found dead; Michael Ostrog, a Russian criminal and physician who had been placed in an asylum because of his homicidal tendencies; and Aaron Kosminski, a Polish Jew and a resident of Whitechapel who was known to have a great animus toward women (particularly prostitutes) and who was….