Jack The Ripper Finally Identified Through DNA

March 19, 2019

Written by Kelli Marchman McNeely

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Jack the Ripper’s actions made him infamous, but was who was this mysterious butcher that murdered at least five women in the Whitechapel district of London between August and November of 1888? After 130 years it seems that a team of scientists has possibly identified the notorious killer.

 

A DNA forensic investigation was published in the Journal of Forensic Science earlier this month by two British researchers who say that they have identified Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber who was 23 at the time of the murders. Kosminski vanished after the murders but was listed as a suspect.

 

How did they get the DNA? There were blood and semen stains on a shawl found near the body of Catherine Eddowes believed to be Jack the Ripper’s fourth victim, whose mutilated body was discovered on September 30, 1888. The team has had access to the shawl over the last eight years. The shawl is the only piece of evidence ever to be tied to the murders.

 

 

 

 

After the DNA was collected it was tested against present-day relatives of multiple suspects and found that Kosinski’s decedent was a positive match.

 

Author Russell Edwards wrote extensively about how the shawl came into his possession and the tests that were run in his book Naming Jack the Ripper.

 

Ladies and gentleman, I give you the face of Jack the Ripper…

 

 

Jack the Ripper suspect Aaron Kosminski (25) 

 

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