Jack the Ripper managed to commit his violent murders and escape without ever once being seen. Actually, he may have been spotted at one of his crime scenes.
Was Jack the Ripper Hiding in Plain Sight? | Published on July 30, 2015
Posted on 04/26/2020 9:17:47 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1896, New York City electrocuted Carl Feigenbaum.
He’d been convicted of slaying the widow from whom he rented a room at eight cents per day … but many at the time suspected his homicidal exploits might also have traced to Whitechapel, under the dread sobriquet Jack.
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There’s a floating theory that H.H. Holmes could have been Jack. The evidence was compelling, but I’m not entirely convinced. This was interesting, though. So many people came and went from London around that time that it’s hard to say who it could have been en, especially now that the evidence is no more.
*been
Good God, how did that extra, “en” get in there?
I didn’t realize they had the electric chair before 1900.
H.H. was some sick wacko.
I doubt that. Different MO entirely.
Gotta love this.
Guy kills ONE person, tries to go for “insanity”, and is executed in 2 years.
What a long way we’ve come. Liberal fantasies coming true.
Jack the Ripper managed to commit his violent murders and escape without ever once being seen. Actually, he may have been spotted at one of his crime scenes.
Was Jack the Ripper Hiding in Plain Sight? | Published on July 30, 2015
Jack the Ripper: The New Evidence | Published on April 18, 2015
The only available forensics suggest that Aaron Kosminski was probably Jack the Ripper. While the shawl that Catherine Eddowes wore the night she was murdered has serious custody of evidence issues and the DNA results were not strongly robust, it certainly points to Kosminski. The evidence would never result in a criminal conviction but it is the strongest case yet against any known suspect. Kosminski was a strong suspect from the get-go and the Jack the Ripper murders stopped around the time that Kosminski was committed to a mental institution. He’s probably the guy.
Actually, there is no DNA study worthy of the name, and the shawl has no chain of custody, AND wasn't listed as among the victim's possession. It's just a way to blame the Polack.
Nevertheless, it remains the strongest case against any of the Jack the Ripper suspects. That’s why I said that these results would never lead to a conviction but if there were to be some grand reveal of Jack the Ripper, based on this and other circumstantial evidence, I’d put my bet down on Kosminski (although I’d probably also put a small bet on none of the publicly known suspects).
He doesn't because the DNA study was botched, not least because there is no reason to believe she ever wore the shawl. The supposed DNA match turned out to be a typo, because the work was so incompetent.
May as well test DNA from all the supposed Ripper letters -- even the handwriting doesn't match, apparently they have about as many authors as there are letters, which is a little disquieting.
Last I knew, Scotland Yard wouldn't release the names of the various informants from the nearly 140 year old investigation, claiming it could endanger lives. That's good and nuts.
The results are more suggestive than conclusive and the original results were vastly oversold (as is always the case with any new Ripper theory) but after 130 years, it is doubtful that any smoking gun is going to emerge. This might be as close as we will get.
Fractional mtDNA matches are not matches at all, since billions of us have a lot of mtDNA in common (16000 base pairs, something like that).
No, We Still Cannot Confirm the Identity of Jack the Ripper
By Jason Daley
smithsonianmag.com
March 18, 2019
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jack-rippers-dna-collected-shawl-though-doubts-linger-180971726/
The error in the DNA analysis, performed by Jari Louhelainen, may involve something as simple as getting the numbers wrong. “This DNA alteration is known as global private mutation (314.1C) and it is not very common in worldwide population,” Louhelainen wrote. ” … Thus, this result indicates the shawl contains human DNA identical to Karen Miller’s for this mitochondrial DNA segment.”
The problem, Jeffreys said, had to do with writing the mutation as “314.1C.” In the calculations, it really should have been written as “315.1c.” “Had Dr. Louhelainen done this, and followed standard forensic practice, he would have discovered the mutation was not rare at all but shared by more than 99 percent of the people of European descent,” the Independent reported.
earlier:
https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-edwards.html
I wonder if he ever paid his landlord with Flying Eagle pennies or just Indian Heads.
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