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130 Years Later, A 100% DNA Match “Revealed” Who Jack The Ripper Really Was, And We Are In Shock

Published on February 16, 2025

According to a self-described “Ripperologist,” a 100% DNA match can reveal Jack the Ripper’s true “identity.”

In 1888, the unnamed serial killer carried out his horrific atrocities in the Whitechapel neighborhood of London.

Between August 31 and November 9 of that year, he is accused of killing at least five women: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly.

Who has been identified as Jack the Ripper?

A ‘100 per cent’ DNA match with the notorious killer has been discovered, according to researcher Russell Edwards.

With the assistance of Liverpool John Moores University biologist Jari Louhelainen, the two took a DNA sample from a shawl that was found at the scene of one of his victims, Eddowes.

According to Edwards, the findings showed that the killings were committed by ‘Aaron Kosminski,’ a Polish barber who immigrated to London. At the time, he was also under suspicion.

The researcher went in quest of a living relative of Kosminski who was willing to be tested against in order to solidify the situation.

The Ripper specialist claims that he believes he has finally solved the case because of the positive match.

“We put a huge amount of science that the shawl didn’t belong to the victim, and if it didn’t belong to the victim…because we always thought that the semen on the shawl was just one of her customers,” Edwards had previously told LADbible.

“We thought it was her shawl, but through the scientific analysis, we realised that she couldn’t have afforded to own it and realised the only person that could have left the shawl at the murder scene was him.”

What the critics are saying

Critics contend that there was no way to establish that the shawl was ever there at the crime scene, even with the evidence that was provided.

Furthermore, the published results don’t present the complete picture because the genetic sequences of Eddowes and Kosminski’s living relatives were not included in the publication because of “UK law.”

According to forensic scientist Walther Parson of the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck Medical University in Austria, the DNA sequences should be released because they do not represent a privacy danger.

Parson insisted, “Otherwise the reader cannot judge the result,” according to science.org.

“I wonder where science and research are going when we start to avoid showing results but instead present coloured boxes.”