You see, crime by immigrants have been a long festering problem. This is just utterly fascinating. I find it impossible to believe a murder mystery going back over a hundred years,where the murderer is surely dead being identified. Modern forensics is truly a marvel of science.
Many of the other suspects were also immigrants who committed other crimes and murders.
There are a lot of Polish immigrants in London and the UK right now who are upsetting the British electorate big time whether they are criminals or not.
What makes you presume he is gay? Hairdresser?
Just as you assume Jewish because of the name - which to me is nothing more than “Polish”.
I like watching “Cold Case Files”. They are solving a lot of cold cases using DNA testing on saved evidence.
A man’s DNA on a prostitute’s clothing???? That’s it. He killed her. Case closed.
The problem is, the guy is using this information to hawk a book. If I were cynical, I'd point out that by going to the killer's and victim's descendants and obtaining samples of their DNA, he's already got all the material he needs for the purpose of "discovering" DNA on the shawl.
Unless the results can be independently confirmed by an impartial party or parties, I'm inclined to think this a hoax.
This smells rotten.
I say that one match is not proof he was Jack The Ripper.
If his DNA had been found on more than one of the victims, then it could be considered proof.
Cue up people telling, “he was a top Polish surgeon” jokes.
A marvel of money.
Oprah's DNA test proved that she was the descendent of a Zulu Princess Warrior named Sha-Kah-Kahn.
Jury is still out, sorry.
How about this: The promoter of this theory, tracked down living descendants of the murdered victims, extracted DNA from them, put it on the shawl. Then tested the shawl for DNA. Amazingly, it matched the DNA of the descendants of the two murdered victims! Game over! Game over!
A while back, someone found artifacts (boots, watch) belonging to Amelia Earhart on an atoll. What was there not to believe? The artifacts looked just like the ones in photos of her before the flight and the atoll was close to where she was last heard from. The finder’s book had all the details....
This evidence looks very good, but of course should be substantiated.
The suspect if not a new one: he has been ranked about the first most likely, even at the time of the police investigations. He also fits a profile: violent, woman-hater, schizophrenic.
As for his being an immigrant, this would be a secondary but interesting aspect. Immigrants typically are over-represented in criminal activity, and this goes even for major immigrant groups in the United States. The Irish, as newcomers, were most of the criminals in their time, followed by Italians. We tend to take a rosy picture of immigrants because some of our early immigrants were unusual: the New Englanders of the Great Migration were not coming here because they were losers economically back in England. In fact, many were what we would call middle class, such that they had to learn farming and fishing when they got here. Many of the Virginia settlers were upper-class to begin with: if not already personally wealthy, they came from successful families, and had connections even sometimes with aristocracy. This was not the “wretched refuse” period if immigration. Except maybe in the case of Georgia.
Having said that, we cannot judge groups by schizophrenic individuals, who are clearly outliers in any population.
If the recent DNA test had come up with a completely new suspect, and an unexpected, improbable one — one would naturally be more suspicious. But this new evidence applies to the prime suspect of the police at the time. It is not what a fraudster would be most likely to contrive, if selling books were the main aim of a conspiracy. But if you had worked on this case for well over a decade, of course you would want to write it up somewhere.
There is a Wikipedia article on the suspect. Quite a bit is known about him, and there are living relatives.