the descendant of one of his victims requests a new investigation

The gruesome murders of Jack the Ripper terrorized residents of the poor area of ​​Whitechapel, east London, in 1888. His true identity has long remained a mystery: the names of dozens of suspects, including members of the royal family and Prime Ministers, have been put forward.

But in 2014, British author Russell Edwards claimed to have unraveled the mystery, thanks to DNA traces found on a shawl from the crime scene of the killer’s fourth victim, Catherine Eddowes, murdered on September 30, 1888. Jack l The ripper would, according to him, be Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish emigrant from Poland who worked as a barber, and already considered one of the main suspects. The item of clothing would have been recovered at the time by a police officer who wanted to give it to his wife. The latter refusing to wear it, the shawl remained as is, in a box, before joining the Scotland Yard crime museum.

Disputed theory

Russell Edwards called for an investigation into the murder, supported by a descendant of Catherine Eddowes, Karen Miller. Jack the Ripper “went down in history as a famous character,” she underlined in an interview with the “Daily Mail” published this Monday, January 13. “People have forgotten the victims who did not get justice at the time. Now we need this investigation to legally name the killer,” added Karen Miller.