There’s a floating theory that H.H. Holmes could have been Jack. The evidence was compelling, but I’m not entirely convinced. This was interesting, though. So many people came and went from London around that time that it’s hard to say who it could have been en, especially now that the evidence is no more.
*been
Good God, how did that extra, “en” get in there?
I didn’t realize they had the electric chair before 1900.
Gotta love this.
Guy kills ONE person, tries to go for “insanity”, and is executed in 2 years.
What a long way we’ve come. Liberal fantasies coming true.
The only available forensics suggest that Aaron Kosminski was probably Jack the Ripper. While the shawl that Catherine Eddowes wore the night she was murdered has serious custody of evidence issues and the DNA results were not strongly robust, it certainly points to Kosminski. The evidence would never result in a criminal conviction but it is the strongest case yet against any known suspect. Kosminski was a strong suspect from the get-go and the Jack the Ripper murders stopped around the time that Kosminski was committed to a mental institution. He’s probably the guy.
I wonder if he ever paid his landlord with Flying Eagle pennies or just Indian Heads.