Fueling Dorner's folk-hero status is social media's iconoclastic tone, said BuzzFeed Radio host Jack Moore.

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Jack Moore, who lives in a mobile home in Ballyhalbert in County Down, had been campaigning for the change since 2008.

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The comic-book series "From Hell, " in which Moore uses the Jack the Ripper killings as a precursor to 20th-century violence, runs to about 500 pages, including 40-plus pages of footnotes.

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