In the UK, one of the world’s most high-profile criminal cases have been solved after 126 years. But using modern DNA technology, claimed to Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper have been identified.
Many thousands of films, books and articles have been devoted to trying to figure out who was the serial killer who in 1888 murdered a number of women in the most gruesome way.
For the week published a book that claims to have solved the crime mystery using DNA. The evidence seems to be overwhelming and presented today in the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday. There are also published an excerpt from the upcoming book.
The DNA came from Aaron Kosminsky, a man who worked as a hairdresser in the area where the women were murdered – Whitechapel. He was from Poland and had previously escaped the Russian pogroms in the early 1880s to the United Kingdom. Kosminsky was one of the suspects in the police investigation.
Jari Luhelainen, a Finnish molecular biologist who works in London for several years been a hundred-percent DNA match between one of the at that time suspicious men and a of the victims’ belongings.
linking victims and perpetrators, is a shawl that one of the victims was wearing when she was murdered and that contained traces of blood and semen.
The survey is that a crime novel in itself. A British businessman, Russell Edwards, is obsessed with Jack the Ripper mystery. Seven years ago he bought the shawl of an auction. He teamed up with DNA expert Luhelainen who first managed to show that the blood on the shawl came from the murdered woman by compared with DNA from a late relative.
Subsequently, he managed to obtain DNA from the semen was at shawl. Via DNA from a relative of one of the three main suspects he got a hundred percent match.
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