Vampires Fact and Fiction II

I also have another thought, the idea of vampires has been around for centuries no doubt, every culture has some form of obsession with death and life after death. But I have often wondered why on these television shows about vampires no one ever brings up the fact that 9years before the book Dracula came out, England was being terrorized by Jack The Ripper. Is it possible that a inspiration for Stoker's Dracula character was Jack the Ripper himself? A secretive, faceless, man stalking the night and attacking women with an element of sex in between. Eroticism is apparent in Stoker's novel and Jack's victims were prostitutes. No one knows who the man is or what his aims are; he looks just like us and the general public is unable to detect him. And then blood comes into play, if Jack drank his victims blood nobody knows, but as his spree continued his crimes grew more gruesome and bloody, eventually climaxing with Mary Jane Kelly which is the bloodiest crime scene I have ever seen; this final murder, and possibly the four of five before it, have solidified a particular image of Jack the Ripper, most notably the faceless man, walking around covered by a black cape with a bloody knife. Here comes the connection with blood which vampires are famous for drinking. So while Jack can not be proven to have drank blood(he might have eaten some organs) he is still connected with the idea of a blood thirsty killer. Jack and the Count have some similarities which lead me to believe that Bram was possibly inspired by the formers crimes. But, could Bram have also been driven to create the supernatural and evil Count Dracula as a way to deal with the realistic and human crimes of Jack the Ripper? And is it possible that in modern times we are doing the same thing? That the idea of evil vampires is just some people's way of dealing with the horrible things humans all the time? People could not fail to notice that vampires have similar characteristics as John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy and other serial killers. Like Jack the Ripper they live amongst us without causing suspicion, they stalk the night, usually driven by sex as well as blood, they swoop in, do their business and swoop out like a bat leaving little clues behind. Eventually they all get caught, mostly, but hey even Dracula got caught in the end. Vampires are just pretty serial killers, a counterpart to the grossly unattractive Aileen Wuornos' and Henry Lee Lucas' amongst us.