Jack The Ripper's DNA is found in a Woman's shawl and using "vacuum" method of technology to analyze the blood, the killer has been revealed after a hundred and twenty-six years that this mystery has been one of the most famous in history.
Jack The Ripper was a very well-known killer that performed a killing spree in the impoverished areas of Whitechapel, London in the year 1888. He has been countered for the deaths of five women, who he mutilated, and then left their parts splattered through London.
According to The Guardian, a man called Russell Edwards, 48, who is an "armchair detective," which means he is not an actually qualified detective but a person who for personal interest investigates crimes in his spare time.
Apparently, he has been fascinated with Jack The Ripper for a long time and in 2007 he was at an auction where a shawl that belonged to Catherine Eddowes, a woman Jack The Ripper killed and had his DNA all over it. He took this unique opportunity to buy it.
In that time, he got together with Jari Louhelainen, a molecular biologist and they embarked on an adventure that lasted three and a half years before they landed on results.
Jari used very modern technology and a method called "vacuum" to analyze the sample found in the woman's shawl that Jack The Ripper murdered.
After those three and a half years, they have determined that the real identity of Jack The Ripper was Aaron Kosminski, a twenty-three year old Polish immigrant who spent most of his life in an asylum.
Richard Cobb, who runs conventions and tours specifically themed on Jack The Ripper doubts this discovery and says, "The shawl had been openly handled by loads of people and touched, breathed on, spat on."
This is another true fact. It's not a discovery from a recent crime, but a hundred and twentysix years old crime and that shawl went from Catherine to the Police Officer in charge at the time, who wanted to give it as a gift to his wife. She was appaled and didn't want to wear, didn't even wash it.
After that, it passed from hands to hands and generations to generations until today that it is in Russell Edwards possession and with Jack the Ripper's DNA still, supposedly.
Russell Edwards will be launching a book on the subject tomorrow, September 9th, based on his findings and Jack The Ripper's DNA.
