Crime Figure. He was a London Polish immigrant possibly identified as Jack the Ripper. Kosminski was a Polish Jew who emigrated to England from Poland in the 1880s and worked in Whitechapel in the East End of London, where the murders were committed in 1888. In 1891, he was put in an insane asylum. Police officials at the time of the murders named one of their suspects "Kosminski" (forename not given), and described him as a Polish Jew in an insane asylum. Almost a century after the final murder, the suspect "Kosminski" was identified with Aaron Kosminski, but there was little if any evidence to connect him with the murders, and the reasons for his inclusion as a suspect by the contemporary police are unclear. Possibly, Kosminski was confused with another Polish Jew of the same age named Aaron or David Cohen (real name possibly Nathan Kaminsky), who was a violent patient at the same asylum. In September 2014, author Russell Edwards claimed to have proven Kosminski's guilt using untested methods for ascertaining a link via mitochondrial DNA evidence. In March of 2019, the Journal of Forensic Sciences published an investigation into the DNA of Kosminski. They were able to link his DNA with that of the "supposed" 4th victim via a piece of her clothing. With these new forensic findings it's being said that Jack the Ripper has finally been identified.
Crime Figure. He was a London Polish immigrant possibly identified as Jack the Ripper. Kosminski was a Polish Jew who emigrated to England from Poland in the 1880s and worked in Whitechapel in the East End of London, where the murders were committed in 1888. In 1891, he was put in an insane asylum. Police officials at the time of the murders named one of their suspects "Kosminski" (forename not given), and described him as a Polish Jew in an insane asylum. Almost a century after the final murder, the suspect "Kosminski" was identified with Aaron Kosminski, but there was little if any evidence to connect him with the murders, and the reasons for his inclusion as a suspect by the contemporary police are unclear. Possibly, Kosminski was confused with another Polish Jew of the same age named Aaron or David Cohen (real name possibly Nathan Kaminsky), who was a violent patient at the same asylum. In September 2014, author Russell Edwards claimed to have proven Kosminski's guilt using untested methods for ascertaining a link via mitochondrial DNA evidence. In March of 2019, the Journal of Forensic Sciences published an investigation into the DNA of Kosminski. They were able to link his DNA with that of the "supposed" 4th victim via a piece of her clothing. With these new forensic findings it's being said that Jack the Ripper has finally been identified.
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