Nope. A poet, a doctor, a spurned love affair with a prostitute. We’ve heard that story before.

How many well known people have you heard of that turned out to be maniacal serial killers? It just happens that it was 200 years ago, so if you want to research people who lived then, those are the people who have information available. Nobody wants to admit that JTR was probably some nobody who left zero mark on historical records in his daily life.