A contemporary sketch of Aaron Kosminski, a Jack the Ripper suspect.Evans Skinner Archive
Posted on 03/19/2019 6:50:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
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.
Good ole Grant Money.
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?
Yes. They tested his descendants...................
Gah, it’s there. Living decedents.
Sounds like they got him.
Books and movies to ensue
They tested fragments.............
This is nothing! I just watched a youtube video called, Frankenstein, The True Story!
Seriously, I have great faith in science when it is managed properly and hope this is true and brings closure to this great mystery.
Living decedents?
Isn’t that an oxymoron?.....................
What happened to the guy?
A family member, by marriage, just found her birth mom year before last via DNA. The test led to a first cousin who agreed to help - remembered something about an aunt who had given up a child. When she asked the aunt, yes she had given up a daughter and all the data matched up. They requested confirmation from the unwed mother’s home (which would give no info out until after they found each other) & they also confirmed the adoption details, etc. Sometimes these reunions don’t work out/are unhappy, but this turned out to be a good one. They’d both been looking for each other for years.
So the DNA doesn’t turn totally to trash, after this long of a time. I guess you’re saying there’s still “something” there, enough to do an identification ... obviously. That means that DNA lasts longer than I thought.
It fragments like a broken piece of spaghetti...............
He vanished..................not difficult to do in 1888................
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.
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