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."
PinGGG!........................
Wow. So Jack the Ripper was Sweeney Todd.
Of Jewish descent as well.
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He looks a little like Ryan Reynolds.
blood libel.
A 18th century barber would make sense, because they often did part time surgery in addition to cutting hair.
That’s a close shave!.......................
Polak dentist right?
Conveniently an immigrant. 🤔
Conveniently an immigrant. 🤔
Friggin’ immigrants have always been murderers and rapists.
I don’t think that you could say this is definitive proof.
All of the Ripper’s victims were prostitutes.
Kosminski could have made use of Catherine Eddowes services leaving his DNA behind on the shawl.
Hyperbole much, Eliana?
“The Juws are not the men To be blamed for nothing”
Rarely is racist anti-semitism so blatant.
Thanks for coming out of the closet.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-the-Ripper
According to the common assumption of the time, all the victims were prostitutes and all but one of them, Kelly, was murdered while soliciting on the street. That belief was subsequently taken for granted in books about the crimes, which typically offered conjectures as to the true identity of Jack the Ripper and reported graphic details of the murders he committed (many of these books, however, were based on fraudulent claims and documents). In a radical departure from that genre, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (2019), the British social historian Hallie Rubenhold argued that Nichols, Chapman, and Eddowes were not prostitutes; that Stride had resorted to soliciting only occasionally, during periods of desperate poverty and emotional suffering (but there is no evidence to show that she had been soliciting when she was murdered); and that the only verifiable prostitute among the five was Kelly. In Rubenhold’s view, the notion that Jack the Ripper was a murderer of prostitutes was a consequence of the misogynistic and class-based prejudices characteristic of the Victorian era.
White Chapel had or bordered an extensive Polish Jewish community. Like immigrants in the USA, police simply assigned names and, in the case of one Polish Ripper suspect, the police named him Cohen because they did not know how to spell his name. It turned out his name was Kamanski or something similar.
Since 2019, the claimant has refused to allow any peer review of his evidence and the process of determining if this is the Ripper. The claimant may be correct, but many questions could be answered by independent professional investigators conducting a peer review.
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