A contemporary sketch of Aaron Kosminski, a Jack the Ripper suspect.Evans Skinner Archive
A contemporary sketch of Aaron Kosminski, a Jack the Ripper suspect.Evans Skinner Archive
His “identity is confirmed via DNA” seemingly every year.
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.
Someone I know had a baby as a teenager and gave it up for adoption. This was many decades ago.
A couple of months ago, her sister gave her DNA to one of those ancestry sites and they gave her back a list of possible hits as ancestors as well as current relatives. Well, a name came up that was not a known family member. She went to the person’s web page and he looks just like the first woman’s son, born of her husband whom she married a few years after the teenage indiscretion.
He has the same birthday as the baby boy given up for adoption.
There is a show on Travel Channel called Legend Hunter. The host did a very detailed and interesting investigation and it looks like the killer was a American doctor (can’t remember his name) who Scotland Yard had in custody as a suspect and jumped on a ship back to America when released on bail. They matched his writing and signature to the letters that were sent to the police at the time. It is worth a watch if you see the show.
Hmmm ... I thought DNA degraded after a time, so to be no useful. I don’t know ... could be wrong.
Kosminski, who apparently vanished after the murders...
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Wait, if they matched his DNA to that found on a shawl, but he vanished, how did they get *HIS* DNA to match up with?
I’m going to get scolded for not reading the article. Just asking for someone who read it to day. I’m going to guess they tested living relations of his.... maybe?
What happened to the guy?
Around 20 years ago there was a TV special where they had some of the top retired agents of the world’s best police agencies try to determine who he was.
They included FBI, Interpol etc.
None had studied the case before and all were provided all known info about the case.
At the end each revealed who he had determined was Jack. None had any contact with each other. When they did the reveal, every single one had selected Kosminski.
We all know that it was really Toby from The Office.
“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.
An immigrant who stabbed people to death in London.
If these women were prostitutes, as purported, the blood and semen could've come from a customer, not necessarily the killer.
Key word: “May”.
Sooooo... they found semen, on a prostitute’s shawl, and that is the “proof” of who killed her? Do these people have any idea what prostitutes do for a living?
Interesting I just saw show were someone did a forensic analysis’s of where the murders occurred
And did statistically analysis’s where the murderer would live in relationship to those and came up with this exact same guy
Apparently they found that serial murders usually follow a pattern a where they murder in relationship to where they live
"Surely, Prefect, this has gone far enough!"
The Jack the Ripper mystery, like the Ted Bundy murders, is to me, unsettling, to say the least, mostly because the details are usually only alluded to -— never actually completely spelled out. I’m sure I don’t really want to know the gory details, and that they would haunt me, to know them, anyway. I feel much like I did as a child, when details of anything I was forbidden to know reached me in bits and pieces -— I had a strong need to have complete information, yet I also knew I would probably wish I’d never been informed of them.
I find this fascinating. Here is a site of a man who did some research on the family of this supposed Ripper (ordering genealogical research & translations from Poland). https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rip-housekoz.html
He also has a forum which is discussing these recent developments.
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