More than 100 years later, historian Russell Edwards believes he has finally put a real name to the killer – and it’s someone the police had already suspected at the time.
In 2007, Edwards bought a shawl said to have belonged to victim Catherine Eddowes. He had the item tested for DNA, and experts reported traces of both blood and semen.
The blood was said to match a descendant of Eddowes, while the semen was reportedly linked to a distant relative of one of the original suspects, Polish-born barber Aaron Kosminski.
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