Other Non-Ripper Books by Ripper Writers

Here's a few choice publications from Ripper Writers other than on the subject of the Whitechapel murders.

Searching for Truth with a Broken Flashlight: The Reality of Misconception and Wishful Thinking in the Evolution/Creation Controversy

by Michael Hawley

Greetings all,

I have a non-JTR book just out called Searching for Truth with a Broken Flashlight - The Reality of Misconception & Wishful Thinking in the Evolution/Creation Controversy . I have two reasons for telling you. First, I have no humility and I am plugging a piece of work I've researched for nearly 30 years. Second, Phil Carter, a fellow ripperologist, gave me some crucial advice as I was working on my wishful thinking chapters, and I wanted to publically thank him in front of fellow ripperologists. Thank you Phil.

I purposely avoided any comments about ripperology, even though some of it would have nicely fit in. The closest I got was this short excerpt:

An Example of Integration

Taking Dr. Damasio’s discoveries into consideration, human beings often take advantage of both decision-making processes [the two discussed earlier in the chapter are the intellectual method of decision-making by using an inductive and/or deductive logical approach – objective and the emotional, or affective, method of decision making by logically justifying a believe – subjective] in order to effectively discover the truth. Take for example a murder case. After the murder, a crime scene investigation ensues. The investigation begins with crime scene recognition, followed by documentation, finding the evidence, collecting the evidence, and then analyzing the evidence. The investigators are using the intellectual method of decision-making in order to make sense of the case. Detectives assigned to the case will also use the intellectual method of decision-making as they create a list of suspects. When the suspects are investigated and evaluated and the list narrows to one probable suspect, decision-making may begin to shift. As a detective finally becomes convinced of the guilt of one particular suspect, his or her attention, time, and energy is now focused upon that suspect. This new motivation and focus is an affective response, meaning it is a product of the emotional method of decision-making. The detective is now attempting to justify his or her belief with the discovery of new evidence. In one respect, the emotional method of decision-making has an advantage over the intellectual method, because of the increased level of persistence and drive associated with it. Tenacity is an excellent quality for a detective to effectively catch a murderer, as long as it is focused upon the right person.

I have more excerpts on my author website:

www.searchingfortruthwithabrokenflashlight.com

Again, Thank you Phil.

Sincerely,

Mike

Congratulations Mike. I hope this turns out to be a big success for you.

Mike,

That certainly is a cool title. Good job. We all want to see this book do well.

A sincere thank you to all of you. It is now available online and my mother bought four copies! Moms are so great.

Sincerely,

Mike

The James Hanratty case has been well-known for over 50 years. I think people will enjoy Norma Buddle's The A6 Murder. The details can be found here:

http://www.housmans.com/books.php

William Beadle and Andrew Buddle provided good commentary in Part IV.