‘I’m a psychopath with urge to kill – however folks have misconceptions about me’

A self-proclaimed psychopath says he has learned to fight the urge to kill – by writing about his disturbing fantasies rather than acting them out in real life.

Jack Noble, 28, is an author who knew he was considerably different from others ever since he was a little boy. He now describes himself as remorseless and self-centred and he goes by the sinister username Jax The Ripper on social media.

The writer has just published a fictional book called Jack The Ripper and he spoke to the Daily Star about his violent thoughts and the misconceptions about his personality disorder.

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“Fighting the urge to kill is kind of like learning to ride a bike,” he told us from his home in America. “Once you learn it is hard to forget but that doesn’t mean you can’t fall off.

“Writing in the horror genre definitely helps and it is a win win. I’m able to play out scenarios and certain urges within my writing and bring them to life while my readers are left sitting in a front row seat as close as they could possibly get to what goes on in the mind of a psychopath.”

Jack is from Michigan and he now talks about his unusual mind on TikTok where he answers questions for his 177,000 followers.

But taking us back to the start of his life, he said: “I didn’t know I was a psychopath until later in my teens but I knew something was off when I was much younger – maybe around 11 or 12.

“I found it odd that every other kid I knew or had ever met was so consumed in their emotions. I didn’t understand it. The only thing I could relate to was trying to fit in mainly because I was different.

“ASPD (antisocial personality disorder) is the diagnosis usually given to psychopaths in their adolescence. However, I’m not sure you can be diagnosed as a psychopath until you’re an adult for whatever reason.”

As for what that looks like for him as a grown man, he added: “I would say I’m extremely self-centred and I’m not able to feel remorse or guilt.

“And if I don’t feel like the smartest person in the room I need to figure out why that is and begin a psychological chess match with whoever I need in order to be in control.”

Jack, who was nicknamed Jax as a kid, had scans done when he was 17 after a minor head injury which highlighted how different his brain was to the average person.

He said it was ironic that this was around the same time as when he was ordered to have a psych evaluation after pleading guilty to a series of capital felonies.

He received three years probation for his crimes back in 2012 and he boasted: “Even in that situation, I seemed to be able to speak my way out of it with ease, to my surprise.”

Asked why he was so cuttingly honest about his dark mind, he said chatting publicly helps him promote his book while also giving readers useful information.

He believes speaking out provides people with knowledge on what to look out for in psychopaths, how to spot and avoid them and how to decipher if they know any in their personal lives.

But despite common belief, he said he is not completely emotionless and he unearthed the biggest misconceptions about psychopaths.

He said: “I’d say a big one is that we don’t feel emotions at all. I don’t think that is true. You must first understand that a psychopath trying to describe love is like a colour blind person trying to describe colour.

“It’s almost impossible because we don’t know what you feel in that scenario and what you see. But I do know what I feel. It is an extreme need for companionship and a strong need to protect any extension of myself as far as close family or my children.

“I don’t think people believe that a psychopath would die for anyone but I absolutely would. If that’s not love or at least some form of it – you tell me what it is.”

Jack’s new book is available to preorder here and it is set in modern America but was inspired by the 19th century Whitechapel murders. He said his story takes on a life past the original five victims and explores what could have happened next.