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.
This happened so long ago, it is just a historical mystery, though it may be gory in its details, the overall picture is now just a debatable exercise.....................
Early this morning on ID channel, there were a couple shows (”Deadly Legacy”, 2018) on the John (the clown) Wayne Gacy murders. DNA solved one of the unidentified boys, James Haakenson, he’d killed and stashed in the attic. DNA eliminated another young man from the Gacy file but linked him to another bad guy who had already died.
There should be a push to get DNA testing done on all cold cases with samples. That said, it is wrong to used DNA from those who send in their spit to these ancestry places be analysed by LE without signed notarized legal consent.