Posted on 02/04/2025 6:30:16 AM PST by Red Badger
Jack the Ripper's murder spree claimed the lives of countless women A researcher has claimed to have definitively identified Jack the Ripper through DNA evidence, sparking calls for an official inquest into the infamous murders.
Russell Edwards says he has obtained a "100 per cent DNA match" linking the killer to Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber who emigrated to London.
"It's very difficult to put into words the elation I felt when I saw the 100 per cent DNA match," Edwards said.
"This brings closure and it's a form of justice for the descendants," he added.
Russell Edwards says he has obtained a "100 per cent DNA match" linking the killer to Aaron KosminskiInstagram The breakthrough came from DNA extracted from a bloodstained shawl found on victim Catherine Eddowes' body in 1888.
Edwards purchased the historic shawl at auction in 2007.
Working with genealogists, Edwards tracked down a living relative of Kosminski who agreed to provide DNA for comparison testing.
The analysis revealed DNA matches for both the victim and Kosminski on the shawl.
"He can't be prosecuted because he's dead but this is the closest thing they can do," Edwards said.
Karen Miller, whose ancestor Catherine Eddowes was one of the Ripper's victims, is leading calls for an official inquest to legally name the killer.
"We have got the proof, now we need this inquest to legally name the killer," Miller said.
The 53-year-old descendant added: "It would mean a lot to me, to my family, to a lot of people to finally have this crime solved."
Bingo!
Thanks for the education
I tried to find any kind of historical criticism of the book but can’t.
The one quote I remember from the movie.
"linking the killer to Aaron KosminskiInstagram"
How do we know that all the victims attributed to Jack the Ripper were killed by the same individual? Could there have been copycats?
Possible..................
That quote is from a Sherlock Holmes story.
Ping
I find it doubtful a raving lunatic could murder spree for 3 years. Sadly, this suspect sounds way too nuts to do anything other than exist.
JtR was left-handed. Was this guy? As for the DNA, the victims were prostitutes. I’d suspect plenty of DNA was available from multiple individuals. Maybe this Kosminski guy was just a client.
The report says that a bloodstained shawl of the victim was where they got the DNA.
But they didn’t say whether they got the DNA from Kosminski from his blood. As someone in this forum noted, Kosminski could have spread his DNA on the deceased when he used her services as a prostitute. 19th Century Clinton style.
In any case, I have apologized for my misunderstanding.
Funny I didn’t recognize a Sherlock Holmes quote. I read all of them several times as a lad.
Its was most likely Kosminski all the time.
it’s Bruno Kirby!!!!
The investigative Bulls*it team was dispatched to London where they put all the pieces together.
Netflix movie coming soon.
Did you post your reply to the wrong post?
Poor choice of word “countless”. Would usually mean “unlimited” . Eliana could have meant that “countless” meant that the total amount of women killed was unknown. Therefore unable to be counted.
She probably should have written “an unknown number”.
FYI, there are “only” 5 women who the contemporaneous authorities could say with confidence that the “Ripper” killed. The “canonical five”.
IMHO
They used to use compounds containing Mercury.
The saying was, “A night with Venus, gets you a lifetime with Mercury”
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