Was Jack the ripper Aaron Kosminksi?
Kosminksi was a Polish Jew and his DNA was found on an apron near one of the victims.
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@bijouxbroussard About 10 maybe 20 years ago now ... On a shawl supposedly removed from the Catherine Eddowes murder scene.
I mean back in the 1880s there wasn't any DNA evidence so the shawl itself would of been completely useless as evidence. It wouldn't of been that far fetched a police officer at the scene called Amos Simpson simply kept it as a momento...
I think the shawl had been in Amos' family for well over a century before it was eventually discovered.
When they DNA tested it though they found a match with both Catherine Eddowes and Aaron Kosminski's DNA through relatives of theirs that are alive today...
Now Aaron Kosminski was a suspect for the murders back in the 1880s and I think he ended up in an asylum. Which might be why the murders suddenly ended but flip side Catherine was a sex worker so his DNA might of got there through other activities and there might of also of been other family members living in London during the 1880s who had the exact same DNA markers and the shawl itself might or might not of been directly from the murder scene...
So the evidence wouldn't really stand up in court today but it's still quite a big coincidence.
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I mean back in the 1880s there wasn't any DNA evidence so the shawl itself would of been completely useless as evidence. It wouldn't of been that far fetched a police officer at the scene called Amos Simpson simply kept it as a momento...
I think the shawl had been in Amos' family for well over a century before it was eventually discovered.
When they DNA tested it though they found a match with both Catherine Eddowes and Aaron Kosminski's DNA through relatives of theirs that are alive today...
Now Aaron Kosminski was a suspect for the murders back in the 1880s and I think he ended up in an asylum. Which might be why the murders suddenly ended but flip side Catherine was a sex worker so his DNA might of got there through other activities and there might of also of been other family members living in London during the 1880s who had the exact same DNA markers and the shawl itself might or might not of been directly from the murder scene...
So the evidence wouldn't really stand up in court today but it's still quite a big coincidence.
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