In addition, neither man reported seeing or hearing anyone else at Buck's Row, which had no side exits. Modern forensics, however, show this claim to be false and that blood can ooze from such a wound for up to two hours after death. Some theorists suggest that the cut to her throat was very fresh when Lechmere and Paul were present. No blood was described by either man, but by the time a constable (PC Neil) found Nichols shortly afterwards, blood was oozing from her throat (according to the evidence at the inquest). After he saw Paul, Lechmere brought him over to look at the woman. According to a press report Robert Paul, who was walking some distance behind, first noticed him standing 'where the woman was' but in reports of his inquest testimony Paul said he saw him 'in the middle of the road'. In Lechmere's testimony to the Nichols inquest, he claimed that he was walking to work down Buck's Row at around 3:40 a.m when he discovered the body of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols lying next to a gateway. ( July 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. In 2021, Holmgren produced a book in which Lechmere is linked not only to the Whitechapel Murders, but also to the longer series of killings known as the Thames Torso Murders. Mainstream awareness of Lechmere grew in 2014 when journalist Christer Holmgren and criminologist Gareth Norris explored the case against him in the 2014 Channel Five documentary Jack the Ripper: The Missing Evidence. Lechmere's possible guilt was further discussed by John Carey in 2002 by Osborne in 2007, and by Michael Connor in four issues of The Ripperologist between 20. The following year saw the possibility further explored in an article by John Carey, while Osborne went on to examine a set of remarkable coincidences which suggested that 'Cross' was in fact a man legally known as Lechmere.
The suggestion that he might actually be the Whitechapel Murderer was first raised by Derek Osborne in 2000 in an issue of the magazine Ripperana. Although long regarded as merely a witness to the crime scene, Lechmere has since been named as a potential Jack the Ripper suspect by contemporary true crime writers.
On 31 August 1888, Lechmere reported the body of Mary Ann Nichols, the first of Jack the Ripper's five canonical victims, while on his way to work. A native of east London, Lechmere reportedly worked for the Pickfords company for more than 20 years, during which time he was primarily known as Charles Cross. Charles Allen Lechmere (5 October 1849 – 23 December 1920), also known as Charles Allen Cross, was an English delivery driver.
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