Jack the Ripper's identity may finally be known, thanks to DNA.
A visitor watches a black and white projection during a press preview of the 'Jack the Ripper and the East End' exhibition at Museum in London, on May 14, 2008.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.The identity of Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer from the late 1800s in England, may finally be known.
The"semen stains match the sequences of one of the main police suspects, Aaron Kosminski," said the study authored by Jari Louhelainen of Liverpool John Moores University and David Miller of the University of Leeds. The study's authors conducted genetic testing of blood and semen on a shawl found near the body of Catherine Eddowes, the killer's fourth victim, whose badly mutilated body was discovered on Sept. 30, 1888.
The researchers said they have been analyzing the silk shawl for the past eight years and that to their knowledge"the shawl referred to in this paper is the only piece of physical evidence known to be associated with these murders."
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