It is the greatest murder mystery of all time, a puzzle that has perplexed criminologists for more than a century and spawned books, films and myriad theories ranging from the plausible to the utterly bizarre.
But now, thanks to modern forensic science, The Mail on Sunday can exclusively reveal the true identity of Jack the Ripper, the serial killer responsible for at least five grisly murders in Whitechapel in East London during the autumn of 1888.
DNA
evidence has now shown beyond reasonable doubt which one of six key
suspects commonly cited in connection with the Ripper’s reign of terror
was the actual killer – and we reveal his identity.
The landmark discovery was made after businessman Russell Edwards, 48, bought the shawl at auction and enlisted the help of Dr Jari Louhelainen, a world-renowned expert in analysing genetic evidence from historical crime scenes.
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When my wife and I visited Great Britain back in '95 we decided for a lark on our first night in London to take the 'Jack the Ripper' tour. We met our guide at dusk at a specific address and when the tour started he led us through a damp tunnel wedged underneath some buildings to the alley behind where the first murder had taken place.
ReplyDeleteAs we walked along the dank pavement in the tunnel he quipped, " Mind the puddles....they're not necessarily water". It seems that Whitechapel hadn't changed that much over the years.
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Somewhere behind enemy lines,
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" Mind the puddles....they're not necessarily water".
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I read a compelling rejection of this story today and that the murderers were definitely Englishmen of great influence. The women that were killed were prostitutes who knew too much about one of the dimmer princes. and stupidly tried to blackmail the wrong people. But DNA, you know, who can quibble with that, right? Gotta keep the myth alive and the truth far away.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt. Do you have the link?
DeleteI will give it to you if you can ignore all the references to the Free Masons and Illuminati (even though their symbols of power are everywhere here in America, too) - I prefer to refer to them simply as the Ones with all the Power from generation to generation. I will email it to you and you can see what you think.
ReplyDeleteWell.. They found ONE killer. The DNA evidence only proves the case for ONE murder. The other seven KNOWN ( and 20+ SUSPECTED "ripper murders") in 1880's London, are still, and will remain, open homicides. One of the more interesting factoids about this era, is the trail of "ripper type" murders (over 100 in all) that start in Moscow in the late 1860's and end in San Fran. Cal. in 1906, making a line right across Europe to London, across to New York ,Chicago and several western"boom towns" and ending with the 1906 S.F. earthquake . No one has ever tied them together, or even knows if they are connected. Butchering prostitutes seems to have been a very popular pastime in the 19th century . With no one trying very hard to catch the perpetrators as long as they left the "good people" alone.---Ray
ReplyDeleteThanks and I didn't know that.
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