Was James Maybrick Jack the Ripper?

When it comes to suspects, James Maybrick is for now at the top of the leaderboard, displacing depraved artist Walter Sickert (favorite of author Patricia Cornwell) and insane barber Aaron Kosminski. What makes Maybrick an unusual suspect is his background and the 200-mile distance between Liverpool and Whitechapel, where the murders were committed.

But then there is the diary.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/09/02/evidence-growing-that-liverpool-cotton-merchant-and-arsenic-addict-james-maybrick-was-jack-the-ripper/