However, some commentators on the case conclude that Stride's murder was unconnected to the others on the basis that the body was unmutilated, that it was the only murder to occur south of Whitechapel Road, and that the blade used might have been shorter and of a different design.
Nogle kommentatorer om sagen konkluderer imidlertid, at Stride mordet er uden forbindelse med andre på grundlag af, at kroppen ikke var lemlæstet, at det var det eneste mord som skete syd for Whitechapel Road, og at kniven anvendte kunne have været kortere og af en anden udformning.