Jack the Ripper's identity revealed 130 years later through DNA Match
Jack The Ripper is one of the most recognisable names in the world - for all the wrong reasons. The serial killer tortured and murdered women in London in 1888.
The story sends a chill down Brits' spines to this day, and has been retold in countless true crime podcasts, series', and films since the 1970s. The identity of Jack The Ripper has long been shrouded in mystery.
However, in a dramatic turn of events, 130 years on from his horrific crimes, the killer's identity has now been unveiled through a DNA match. Jack The Ripper was a man named Aaron Kosminski, according to The Daily Mail.
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The revelation came after historian Russell Edwards extracted DNA from a shawl he came upon and used it to determine that Kosminski was the man behind the ominous alias of Jack The Ripper.
The finding has been 100 confirmed after Edwards hired a team to eliminate any doubt over the DNA match. He has, as a result, went public with the finding, which outs the vicious individual who inflicted pain on so many victims.
Aaron Kosminski was a Polish immigrant who worked as a barber upon moving to London, the findings show. He was only a young man when he embarked on his killing spree - 23 years old to be exact.
Incredibly, Kosminski was a suspect at one point during the police investigation into the slayings. He was later admitted to a mental institute, where he died in 1919.
To uncover the killer's identity, Kosminski's oldest brother’s great-great-granddaughter actually helped Edwards. She provided a DNA sample that was able to be matched with that of the shawl. Edwards bought the item of clothing around 20 years ago when he was informed that it had been seen at the scene of one of Jack The Ripper's murders.
The development has provided a sense of comfort and close to the family of the women who died. Karen Miller, the great-great-great-granddaughter of one of the victims, Catherine Eddowes, told the Daily Mail: "Having the real person legally named in a court, which can consider all the evidence, would be a form of justice for the victims.
"We have got proof. Now, we have this inquest to legally name the killer.”
The inquest, which is a judicial inquiry to reinvestigate a past murder, is already underway thanks to Edwards and his team. They have reached to the UK High Court to reopen the murders.
The news comes shortly after a letter purchased on eBay appeared to identify Jack The Ripper as Aaron Kosminski. The 14-line note, which was bought by a Bradford carpet fitter for £240, could be valued at around £125,000 after scientists authenticated it and confirmed it was written at the time of the Ripper murders.
It detailed how Aaron Kosminski, who, as aforementioned, was a main suspect in the case all along, had bludgeoned a woman with a pair of scissors less than a year after the killings.
