Ever since the notorious killer emerged and then mysteriously disappeared again at the end of the 19th century, speculation has been rife. the ruthless killer known as Jack the Ripper was said to have slaughtered five women in 1888, though similar kinds of killings occurred in Whitechapel over the following few years.
Now it seems that determined investigators have pieced together the real identity of the elusive murderer using advanced DNA analysis techniques. They claim that the iconic villain was none other than a Polish immigrant called Aaron Kosminski, who at the time was 23 years old.
This man, identified as a witness and kept under surveillance by the police force of the period, lived with his siblings - two brothers and a sister - a mere 200 yards from where third victim Elizabeth Stride met her untimely death. He was in fact a barber who was
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Together with DNA analysis expert Dr David Miller Dr Louhelainen ran a seriesof exhaustive tests that pointed to DNA from both victim and Kominski being present. This was possible through the obtaining of DNA samples from descendants of the pair. The team altogether claim that this points to Kominski having been the notorious serial killer, though it is by no means definitive.
That this demon barber was named in the notes of lead investigator of the murders - Chief Inspector Donald Swanson the police back then never managed to link him to the crimes. He was watched carefully until being committed to a mental asylum in 1890, but never charged. Dr Louhelainen also happens to works on unsolved so-called cold cases for Interpol at times and feels that the team really do have their man in this instance, but will anybody ever really