 Others contend that Bury only imitated the Ripper , citing differences between their crimes . Ellen Bury was strangled with a rope and sustained comparatively few knife wounds compared to the Ripper 's victims , whose throats were cut prior to sustaining deep abdominal slashes . Ellen Bury 's throat was not cut , and only relatively shallow cuts were made to her abdomen . The identity of the Whitechapel murderer is unknown , and over one hundred suspects , in addition to Bury , have been proposed . While some Ripper writers consider Bury a more likely culprit than many of the other suspects , other writers dismiss the theory because , " as happens all too frequently in this field , the theorizing appears to have a few disturbing leaps of logic as well as mere anecdotes used as evidence . " 
