Relatives and associates of Jack the Ripper‘s victims are making efforts to finally reveal the true identity of the infamous murderer.
130 years after the notorious serial killer perpetrated gruesome slayings in economically struggling parts of East London, England, relatives of his victims and researchers studying Jack the Ripper, such as Russell Edwards, are urging an inquiry to legally confirm that Aaron Kosminski was responsible for these crimes.
A Polish immigrant named Kosminski, who passed away in 1919, was strongly suspected of being involved in a series of five murders that occurred in 1988, although he was never officially charged. The connection between Kosminski and these crimes re-emerged a century later due to DNA evidence. A shawl recovered from the crime scene of one of the victims, Catherine Eddowes, was found to have DNA that matches a sample provided by one of Kosminski’s living relatives, as reported in the Journal of Forensic Sciences in 2019.
Edwards expressed in an interview with The Sun on January 31st that it was incredibly challenging to express the intense joy he felt upon seeing the 100% DNA match. He further added that this discovery provides a sense of resolution and justice for the descendants involved.
One of Eddowes’ lineal descendants, Karen Miller, not only embraces these discoveries but actively seeks more inquiry to validate and confirm them officially.
She informed the Daily Mail on January 12 that we have the evidence. Now, what we require is for this inquest to officially identify the perpetrator.
Some experts have expressed doubts about the findings’ authenticity and advised against accepting them as definitive. For instance, Walther Parson, a forensic scientist at Austria’s Innsbruck Medical University, has raised concerns over the journal’s exclusion of genetic sequences belonging to Eddowes and Kosminski’s living relatives, which were substituted in the article with a graphic suggesting the presumed link between the shawl and contemporary DNA sequences.
In 2019, when the journal was initially released, he stated that without this alternative explanation, “The reader would be unable to evaluate the outcome.
Hansi Weissensteiner, a researcher based at Austria’s Innsbruck Medical University, further stated that the analyzed DNA could eliminate potential suspects but not definitively pinpoint a specific one.
“Based on mitochondrial DNA,” he told the outlet, “one can only exclude a suspect.”
A legal team hired by Edwards is preparing to call for an inquest into the matter, he told The Sun.
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