Jack the Ripper was identified using DNA analysis

Aaron the Ripper

Robert Berg, Jewish.ru

In Britain, it was possible to establish the identity of the famous serial killer nicknamed Jack the Ripper, who terrified Londoners in the 80s of the XIX century, the Daily Mail newspaper reported. Examination of DNA found on one of the evidence suggests that at least five brutal murders attributed to the maniac were committed in 1888 in the London borough of Whitechapel by Aaron Kosminsky, a Jewish emigrant from Poland. All of his victims were prostitutes.

British businessman and amateur detective Russell Edwards helped identify the killer. In 2007, he purchased at auction a shawl found next to the body of one of Jack the Ripper's victims, Catherine Eddowes.

According to Edwards, police officer Amos Simpson, who worked at the crime scene, took the shawl to give it to his wife. However, she refused to wear a scarf because of the bloodstain, and for more than a hundred years the artifact was kept in the policeman's family until it was put up for auction. In addition to the victim's blood, traces of the alleged killer's semen were found on the garment.

Russell Edwards turned to a specialist in molecular biology from the University of Liverpool, Jari Louhelainen, with a proposal to conduct a genetic examination of the samples found. Dr. Louhelainen compared them with the DNA of the victim's relatives and the main suspects and came to the conclusion that Jack the Ripper is a Polish emigrant of Jewish origin, Aaron Kosminsky. At the time of the crimes in 1888, he was 23 years old.

As a result of the tests, it was found that the sperm belongs to a representative of the haplogroup T1a1, common among Ashkenazi Jews. Already at this stage of the investigation, Kosminsky became the main suspect. When the DNA traces were compared with the analyses of Kosminsky's descendants now living in Britain, doubts that he was the serial killer were dispelled.

Aaron Kosminsky worked as a hairdresser in the London borough of Whitechapel. There he brutally dealt with his victims, first cutting their throats, and then ripping open their stomachs. From the very beginning of the investigation in the late 1880s, he was considered as one of the suspects, but the police could not prove his guilt.

Kosminsky suffered from a severe mental disorder and some time after the end of the investigation of the Jack the Ripper case, he was arrested for the attempted murder of his own sister. He spent the rest of his life in prison.

For more than 100 years since the crimes were committed, many versions have been put forward regarding the identity of the London serial killer. Among the suspects were such prominent personalities as the grandson of Queen Victoria and the potential heir to the British throne, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, the post-impressionist artist Walter Sickert and even the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, William Gladstone.

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