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Jack the Ripper's identity may finally be known, thanks to DNA
www.nbcnews.com ^ | March 18, 2019, 3:17 PM CDT | By Farnoush Amiri

Posted on 03/19/2019 6:50:39 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Larry Lucido

It was Trump!!!


21 posted on 03/19/2019 7:10:20 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: Larry Lucido

22 posted on 03/19/2019 7:11:20 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Qiviut

Well, one challenge is your children by your marriage. If those kids don’t know about the illegitimate child from her teens, how are they going to react to discovering a big brother/sister?


23 posted on 03/19/2019 7:11:43 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Red Badger

Isn’t that an oxymoron?

No. I am a living descendant of my dead grand father.


24 posted on 03/19/2019 7:17:36 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Good movie..................


25 posted on 03/19/2019 7:17:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Nateman

Perhaps a book to be called ‘Great Stains through History’ can be started based on this. Bubby Clinton of course would be there as well.

...

I’d prefer to call them infamous or disgraceful.


26 posted on 03/19/2019 7:18:39 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Descendant, yes.

Decedent, no.................


27 posted on 03/19/2019 7:19:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

We all know that it was really Toby from The Office.


28 posted on 03/19/2019 7:19:14 AM PDT by thirdgradeteacher
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To: Red Badger

“Does a new genetic analysis finally reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper?”
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper

Hansi Weissensteiner, an expert in mitochondrial DNA also at Innsbruck, also takes issue with the mitochondrial DNA analysis, which he says can only reliably show that people—or two DNA samples—are not related. “Based on mitochondrial DNA one can only exclude a suspect.” In other words, the mitochondrial DNA from the shawl could be from Kosminski, but it could probably also have come from thousands who lived in London at the time.

Other critics of the Kosminsky theory have pointed out that there’s no evidence the shawl was ever at the crime scene. It also could have become contaminated over the years, they say.

The new tests are not the first attempt to identify Jack the Ripper from DNA. Several years ago, U.S. crime author Patricia Cornwell asked other scientists to analyze any DNA in samples taken from letters supposedly sent by the serial killer to police. Based on that DNA analysis and other clues she said the killer was the painter Walter Sickert, though many experts believe those letters to be fake. Another genetic analysis of the letters claimed the murderer could have been a woman.


29 posted on 03/19/2019 7:25:56 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: thirdgradeteacher

“We all know that it was really Toby from The Office.”

Professor Plum, in the library with a rope, I say.


30 posted on 03/19/2019 7:27:20 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Star Traveler

There was enough to create Serpentor.

I couldn’t resist the lame attempt at humor.


31 posted on 03/19/2019 7:28:01 AM PDT by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: 4yearlurker

That would be Dr. Tumblety, who was in London during the murders, arrested, then left for New York.


32 posted on 03/19/2019 7:28:08 AM PDT by mak5
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To: Larry Lucido

Good movie.


33 posted on 03/19/2019 7:28:59 AM PDT by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: 4yearlurker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes?wprov=sfla1


34 posted on 03/19/2019 7:29:14 AM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: LouieFisk

The Loch Ness monster as shown by Henry Silva.


35 posted on 03/19/2019 7:30:00 AM PDT by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: Red Badger

An immigrant who stabbed people to death in London.


36 posted on 03/19/2019 7:32:01 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: LouieFisk

It was Colonel Mustard, in the Library with a candlestick....................


37 posted on 03/19/2019 7:32:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Disappeared.

Probably kept killing until stopped. Perhaps he was arrested on another crime or died an otherwise early death.


38 posted on 03/19/2019 7:33:02 AM PDT by crusher2013
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To: Palio di Siena

Just like today’s headlines..........


39 posted on 03/19/2019 7:33:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

I’m more curious as to what he and Plum were up to, alone in the library!


40 posted on 03/19/2019 7:34:53 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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