After all these years we actually were able to use DNA. That is most
impressive and it also closes the case with a convincing suspect who
was already on the most likely list. That they also confimed the
victims DNA as well simply locks it down and leaves no opportunity to
question the science.
Without hard evidence we had a dozen prospects of which a couple
perhaps were viable by todays standards of understanding. Hard
evidence has now sealed the deal.
It was a dramatic case that shocked hugely in that like its
imitators, it was not imaginable. It still is not imaginable but it
is still real.
JACK THE RIPPERS
IDENTITY FINALLY DISCOVERED
Trevor Wozny September
6, 2014
It took 126 years of speculation, accusations, and intrigue to
finally determine the true identity of the infamous “Jack The
Ripper”. Criminologies greatest minds have tackled this
mystery and failed. The Ripper was active in the largely impoverished
areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.
The name originated in a letter written by someone claiming to be the
murderer that was widely disseminated in the media. The letter is
widely believed to have been a hoax, and may have
been written by a journalist in a deliberate attempt to heighten
interest in the story. Within the crime case files as well as
journalistic accounts the killer was known as “the Whitechapel
Murderer” as well as “Leather Apron”. He favoured killing
prostitutes and had a kink for mutilation.
The
murderer of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth
Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly has been
identified after all these years. One of the six prime suspects at
the time of the murders has been proven by advanced DNA analysis to
be the legendary killer. Cutting edge DNA analysis of a shawl found
by the body ofCatherine Eddowes, one of the Ripper’s victims,
has been analysed and found to contain DNA from her blood as well as
DNA (semen) from the killer.
It
all started when businessman Russell Edwards, 48, bought the
shawl at auction and gathered the help of Dr Jari
Louhelainen, a expert in analysing genetic evidence. Dr
Louhelainen was able to extract 126-year-old DNA from the material
and compare it to DNA from descendants of Eddowes and the suspect,
with both proving a statistically perfect match. The long line of
men believed to be Jack the Ripper include, Aaron Kosminski, Prince
Albert Victor, Edward VII’s son, Sir William Gull, Queen
Victoria’s doctor, painter Walter Sickert, a Jewish shoemaker, a
polish barber who later poisoned three women.
The identity of “Jack
The Ripper” turned out to be polish immigrant Aaron
Kosminski .
Kosminski
was an insane Polish Jew who was a suspect in the Jack the Ripper
murders. He emigrated to England from Poland in the 1880s
and worked as a hairdresser in Whitechapel in the East End
of London, where the murders were committed in 1888. From 1891, he
was institutionalized in an asylum.
Years after the end of
the murders, documents were discovered that revealed the suspicions
of police officials against a man called “Kosminski”.
An
1894 memorandum written by Sir Melville Macnaghten, the Assistant
Chief Constable of the London Metropolitan Police Service, names one
of the suspects as a Polish Jew called “Kosminski” (without a
forename). Macnaghten’s memo was discovered in the private papers
of his daughter, Lady Aberconway, by television journalist Dan Farson
in 1959, and an abridged version from the archives of the
Metropolitan Police Service was released to the public in the 1970s.
Macnaghten stated that there were strong reasons for suspecting
“Kosminski” because he “had a great hatred of women … with
strong homicidal tendencies”. Kosminski was not a member of the
Royal Family, or an eminent surgeon or politician. Serial
killers rarely are. Instead, he was a pathetic creature, a lunatic
who achieved sexual satisfaction from slashing women to death in the
most brutal manner. He died in Leavesden Asylum from gangrene
at the age of 53, weighing just 98 pounds.
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