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🧬 Jack the Ripper breakthrough as DNA 'finally unmasks serial killer after 136 years'
This is the face of the world's most infamous serial killer according to an author who has been studying the Jack the Ripper case for close to 30 years.
Ripper researcher Russell Edwards has used new facial remodelling technology to create this CGI black and white image of how the killer would have looked at the time.
It was after Mr Edwards used DNA evidence from the shawl of one of his victims to "prove" that Jack the Ripper was actually Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish immigrant from Poland who was one of the key suspects at the time of the horrific Whitechapel murders.
Now, in a second book on the case, Mr Edwards claims not only to have conclusively identified the Ripper, but also the reason why he mutilated his victims in such a way and how he evaded justice.
Fun fact: during the murders the message "the jews won't be blamed for nothing" was found painted into a wall in the affected area. The police had it erased immediately to avoid an anti-Jewish riot.
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The DNA evidence recovered from the shawl was that of mitochondrial DNA, which is not unique to any one person, it can only exclude suspects, not the other way around. Furthermore, there is no chain of custody recorded for the shawl in question, no record of a shawl being recovered from the scene of Catherine Eddowes' murder, nor any record of Amos Simpson (the officer who claimed to have acquired the shawl) being at that specific crime scene.
While In the course of my own research on the subject, I have come to believe that the Ripper, (if it truly was just one man behind the murders) was a jew, there is frankly no evidence that Aaron Kosminski was ever involved in any of the murders.