{"id":165,"date":"2025-12-02T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:55:09","slug":"jack-the-rippers-true-identity-was-revealed-after-dna-breakthrough-on-key-piece-of-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Jack the Ripper’s ‘true identity’ was revealed after DNA breakthrough on key piece of evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

It turns out the man was previously considered as a suspect in the case<\/h2>\n
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Jack the Ripper’s identify is thought to have been revealed with the help of one key piece of evidence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0crimes<\/a>\u00a0of Jack the Ripper have remained one of the more notorious cold cases in British\u00a0history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The culprit, long believed to have been a man, took the lives of five women in 1888: Elizabeth Stride, Mary Jane Kelly, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman and Catherine Eddowes.<\/p>\n

Not only did he murder them, but the bodies were mutilated and had their organs removed. The victims were all believed to have been sex workers.<\/p>\n

Over a 100 years later and historian Russell Edwards believes he’s revealed who the notorious criminal was \u2014 and it could have well been one of the men\u00a0police<\/a>\u00a0identified as a suspect at the time.<\/p>\n

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Jack the Ripper killed 5 women in 1888 (Stefano Bianchetti\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

In 2007,\u00a0Edwards purchased a shawl once owned by Eddowes<\/a>\u00a0to put through DNA testing and the results showing blood and semen stains on it.<\/p>\n

The blood was a match of one of Eddowes’ descendants, while the semen matched a man who Edwards has claimed is a distant relative of one of the Ripper suspects, Aaron Kosminski, the Mirror previously\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His claim was made in Edwards’ book, titled\u00a0Naming Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Reveal,<\/em>\u00a0the sequel of his original book\u00a0Naming Jack the Ripper<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is no longer just a suspect. We can hold him, finally, to account for his terrible deeds,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

“My search is over:\u00a0Aaron Kosminski is Jack the Ripper<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Experts, however, have aired concerns about the accuracy of assessing mitochondrial DNA, and the likelihood of a false match.<\/p>\n

In the wake of his findings, Edwards expressed his hopes of having the decades-old case reopened.<\/p>\n

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The murderer is believed to have targeted sex workers (Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

As of February 2025, he’d penned a letter has been sent to the attorney general requesting permission to go to the high court and initiate the legal process, Newsweek\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n

Discussing this, Edwards shared: “We now know the name and we’ve placed the murderer at the murder scene. Now we want that to be public knowledge though, accepted by the courts.”<\/p>\n

Family members of the one of Jack the Ripper’s victims have also called for the case to be reopened.<\/p>\n

Karen Miller, a direct descendant of Eddowes, wants Kosminski legally named in court.<\/p>\n

“The name Jack the Ripper has become sensationalized. It has gone down in history as this famous character,” she\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Daily Mail in January. “People have forgotten about the victims, who did not have justice at the time. Now we need this inquest to legally name the killer.”<\/p>\n

Miller added: “Having the real person legally named in a court which can consider all the evidence would be a form of justice for the victims.”<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, it doesn’t appear as if the case has been reopened \u2014 yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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