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I believe inspector Abilard always considered some dude name Kosminsky (or something like that) as the Ripper but never had enough evidence to try him. It’s one of those things that are fun to speculate about but we’ll never know - like “What would have happened if General Ewell had tried to take Cemetary Hill on the first day of Gettysburg?”

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A few weeks ago a story was published about some guy who bought a scarf that was alleged to have been found near one of the ripper victims and he had DNA testing done to prove that stains on it were likely blood from the victim (so if true, the scarf likely did belong to her and was there) and also body fluids )not blood, it's a family site so I'll leave it at that) from Kosminski. This was based on people who he identified as descendants of the two.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746321/Jack-Ripper-unmasked-How-amateur-sleuth-used-DNA-breakthrough-identify-Britains-notorious-criminal-126-years-string-terrible-murders.html

If there is indeed a piece of physical evidence which ties the two people together, it's pretty compelling to me. Not definitive, but compelling. Anyway far more so than "this guy is a butcher so he would have been bloody all the time; therefore he did it."