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Interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/jack-ripper-id...024421946.html
London (AFP) - Jack the Ripper, one of the most notorious serial killers in history, has been identified through DNA traces found on a shawl, claims a sleuth in a book out on Tuesday.
The true iden y of Jack the Ripper, whose grisly murders terrorised the murky slums of Whitechapel in east London in 1888, has been a mystery ever since, with dozens of suspects that include royalty and prime ministers down to bootmakers.
But after extracting DNA from a shawl recovered from the scene of one of the killings, which matched relatives of both the victim and one of the suspects, Jack the Ripper sleuth Russell Edwards claims the iden y of the murderer is now beyond doubt.
He says the infamous killer is Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish emigre from Poland, who worked as a barber.
Edwards, a businessman interested in the Ripper story, bought a bloodstained Victorian shawl at auction in 2007.
The story goes that it came from the murder scene of the Ripper's fourth victim, Catherine Eddowes, on September 30, 1888.
Police acting sergeant Amos Simpson, who had been at the scene, got permission from his superiors to take it for his dressmaker wife -- who was subsequently aghast at the thought of using a bloodstained shawl.
It had hitherto been passed down through the policeman's direct descendants, who had stored it unwashed in a box. It briefly spent a few years on loan to Scotland Yard's crime museum.
- Victim disembowelled -
Edwards sought to find out if DNA technology could conclusively link the shawl to the murder scene.
Working on the blood stains, Doctor Jari Louhelainen, senior lecturer in molecular at Liverpool John Moores University, isolated seven small segments of mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down through the female line.
They were matched with the DNA of Karen Miller, a direct descendant of Eddowes, confirming her blood was on the shawl.
Meanwhile stains exposed under ultra-violet light suggested the presence of seminal fluid.
Doctor David Miller, reader in molecular andrology at the University of Leeds, managed to find cells from which DNA was isolated.
With the help of genealogists, Edwards found a descendant of Kosminski through the female line, who offered samples of her DNA.
Louhelainen was then able to match DNA from the semen stains to Kosminski's descendant.
For Edwards, this places Kosminski at the scene of Eddowes' gruesome murder.
Eddowes, 46, was killed on the same night as the Ripper's third victim. An orphan with a daughter and two sons, she worked as a casual pros ute.
She was found brutally murdered at 1:45am. Her throat was cut and she was disembowelled. Her face was also mutilated.
The belief is that the shawl was left at the crime scene by the killer, not Eddowes.- Calls for peer review -
Kosminski was born in Klodawa in central Poland on September 11, 1865. His family fled the imperial Russian anti-Jewish pogroms and emigrated to east London in the early 1880s. He lived close to the murder scenes.
Some reports say he was taken in by the police to be identified by a witness who had seen him with one of the victims, and though a positive identification was made, the witness refused to give incriminating evidence, meaning the police had little option but to release him.
He entered a workhouse in 1889, where he was described on admission as "des ute". He was discharged later that year but soon ended up in an insane asylum.
He died from gangrene in an asylum on March 24, 1919 and was buried three days later at East Ham Cemetery in east London.
Some have cast doubt on Edwards' findings.
The research has not been published a a peer-reviewed scientific journal, meaning the claims cannot be independently verified or the methodology scrutinised.
Professor Alec Jeffreys, who invented the DNA fingerprinting technique 30 years ago this week, called for further verification.
"An interesting but remarkable claim that needs to be subjected to peer review, with detailed analysis of the provenance of the shawl and the nature of the claimed DNA match with the perpetrator's descendants and its power of discrimination; no actual evidence has yet been provided," Jeffreys told The Independent newspaper.
Interesting.
And as you see, Jack the Ripper was a Jew. Wonder if the British s would've still fought the world war for the Jews if they had known a century ago that Jack was Jewish, tbh.
Meh it hardly proves anything
was watchin some british royal family history on youtube, lol i dont know who makes these do entaries, but they keep on claiming how queen elizabeths 2 ancestors were hebrews....lmao jews continue to make up
Michael Jordan is Jewish TBH
Considering the demographics of Spitalfields/Whitechapel in 1888 the possibility- or probability- that the Ripper was a Jew was always there. I've read my share of Ripper books; Kosminski was always considered a suspect and was always identified as a Polish Jew.
Still, there is a lot of work to be done before this DNA can be considered "proof" of anything.
You serious here?
He's been a suspect since the beginning so this wouldn't be a surprise. Too bad they could never pinpoint who was the Black Dahlia killer either though they've had some good leads as to whom it might've been.
Scarlett the former Goddess Johansson is half Jewish too, tbh
dem yids rogue 8)
I watched this ghost hunting show Killer Contact about a year ago where on the show the ghost of one of the victims and the ghost of Kominski revealed that he was Jack the Ripper. I thought it was all bull at the tim, maybe not now.
I read a book years ago from some chick who said the killer was Walter Sickert--an artist--I think he was one of the original suspects. She cited forensic evidence and all that jazz, but who knows really. That was my "true crime" phase, used to love studying/reading that stuff
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