A breakthrough of Jack’s case after 130 years

Notorious serial murderer known as Jack ripper It can finally be identified for more than 130 years after terrorized the Victorian era of England.

The story of Jack Ripper has transformed the generation of real lovers of crime and frightened viewers of classic film and television shows. Perhaps the best -known unresolved case of a serial killer in history was endless theory of who was Jack Ripper, but until recently no definitive evidence. Scientists have performed a DNA test that could convincingly demonstrate the identity of the brutal killer. The descendants of victims and scientists Jack Ripper are now calling for the UK rule to organize a formal investigation of their DNA.

Continue to move the whole story of suspect murders Jack Ripper, the last breakthrough in his case and overview of some of the most famous murderers.

Killing and the theory

Jack Ripper was associated with murders Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly In 1888 in the Whitechapel area, his victims are most often sex workers who lived in the poorer East End section. These women are referred to as “canonical five” on these women, because their murders are most likely associated with a single perpetrator. Various other murders from the same time period were also speculatively attributed to Jack Ripper, although never verified. Experts and scientists disagreed with the so -called “Ripper’s myth”, suggesting that only the murder of Nichols, Chapman and Eddowes could be credibly linked to a single murderer.

The nickname “Jack Ripper” was first used in a letter from 1888, which the suspect allegedly sent the police in Whitechapel. The writer described a letter “dear boss” and described himself as “Jack Ripper” and the police with whom he responded as “boss”. The police later suspected that the letter of the “dear boss” was a complicated fraud created by a journalist to increase the sale of newspapers, as well as several other notes and postcards sent to the police from Ripper.

In the 1890s of the 20th century there was speculation that Jack could be in a surgical field because three of his victims were removed by internal organs and their throat decreased. There are many theories connecting public personalities with the Ripper case. Queen VictoriaGrandson Prince Albert Victor was submitted as suspected at the age of 70 when a British doctor Thomas Stowell He suggested that Royal might have committed murders while in the throat of madness caused by syphilis. The Prince, also known as Eddy, died of the flu at the age of 28 in 1892, at a time when the murders of the partitioned data allegedly stopped.

Author Richard Wallace wrote a book from 1996 called Jack Ripper, Friend of Light Heartin which he speculated Alice in Wonderland writer Lewis Carroll Maybe they committed murders with an accomplice, academic Thomas Vere Bayne. Wallace claimed that Carroll included several anagrams in his literary work that referred to Ripper killing. Wallace was criticized by Carroll’s biographies for these accusations and his theories remain very questionable.

New evidence

Another potential suspicious is Aaron from the flakeA barber whose DNA was tied to a case in a retrospective investigation.

Scientists have long considered Kosmski, a Polish immigrant who moved to Whitechapel in 1881, but there was never enough solid evidence to accuse him in 1919. Kosmski lived at the time of his death at the time of his death because he was considered schizophrenia.

However, the historian Russell Edwards he said recently Today shows Australia The fact that a scarf found on Eddowes’s murder scene has a 100 % match of DNA with Kosmski. Edwards bought a scarf in 2007 and presented clothing for numerous DNA tests in the hope that Jack’s Ripper’s identity could definitely do.

“(Kosmski) was 23 in (time) murders,” Edwards said in his interview in February 2025.

Edwards found a receiving form in asylum where Kosmski lived, who cited his profession as a “barbed surgeon”, which means he could have some anatomical expertise.

“The murderer had to have an anatomical knowledge to commit the crimes he did,” the researcher said.

Edwards and his team found another document of 1891, which credited Kosmski as a “strong murderous tendency”, while current officials found him that he was a “strong suspect” in the case of Jack Ripper.

Edwards and his team are now looking for a formal investigation of the British High Court with the support of the great -grandfather Eddowes Karen Miller.

“The name Jack Ripper has become sensationalized.” Like this famous character it went in history, ”said Miller Daily mail In January 2025. “What about the real name of the person who did it? Having a real person legally named in a court that can consider all evidence would be for the victims in the form of justice. We have evidence. Now we need to legally name this question. ”

After Edwards’s initial DNA tests in 2019, molecular biologist Walther Parson and the DNA researcher Hansi Weissensteinerfrom Innsbruck Medical University, expressed doubts Despite the authenticity of the scarf and the methods of its genetic testing. They argued that genetic sequences from Eddowes and Kosmski’s living relatives were not included in the testing, except for questioning whether the scarf could be contaminated due to the way it was stored. Since then, Kominski’s fraternal granddaughter has provided a genetic sample for testing.

Unforgettable views

Unresolved case as sensational as Jack Ripper Murders is mature for adaptation and the story has actually turned into countless documents, books and even fictitious repetitions in film and television since the age of 20.

Author Marie Belloc Lowdes“Novel Lodgewhich was published in 1913 was five times adapted as a feature film, especially as a director Alfred HitchcockFirst thriller, The Lodger: The Story of the London Fogin 1927. The silent film captures a fall for a murderer in the style of ripper known as The Avenger, with a Welsh actor Ivor Novello playing the main suspect. The Lodger: The Story of the London Fog He is perhaps most remembered by the fact that he had the first of Hitchcock’s portraits in one of his films. The creator would continue his legendary career in his films.

Black comedy from 1972 Ruling class played Peter O’Toole Like a nobleman who incorrectly believed that he could commit the murders of expansion during the onset of schizophrenia. Filmmaker Peter Medak directed Ruling class from a playwright Peter Barnes“Adaptation of his own stage games from 1968. Now considered a cult classic, Ruling class failed at the box office but O’Toole received the nomination of the best actor Oscar in 1973 (although he lost with Marlon Brando for Godfather).

Another remarkable yet fictional display of the case came in a comic book writer Algo and the artist Eddie CampbellA graphic novel from 1989 Out of hellthat have been theorized to this lawyer Montague druitt was framed for crimes to cover the real culprit, the surgeon of Queen Victoria William Gull. Johnny Depp played in the 2001 movie version Out of hellWhere did he play the police inspector Whitechapel Frederick Abberline In the middle of the race against time to stop Jack Rippera killing. Moore later rejected Depp’s depiction of Abberline as “Absintu-swiling, Opium-Den-Frequenting Dandy with a hairstyle that would get him in the metropolitan police power in 1888 in an interview with other officers”. MTV.

Strictly comedy display Jack Rippera in Owen Wilson and Jackie ChanAction movie from 2003 Shanghai knights He saw a criminal falling from a bridge during a disheveled attempt to kill the intended victim.

On a small screen, BBC 2012 TV series Ripper Street It took place six months after the killing began and explored the police struggle to uncover the murderer. Future Sequence star Matthew Macfadyen portrayed a real detective inspector Edmund reid In the five season cats and mouse games between the murderer and the Whitechapel Police through the Eastern London end. Grade‘ Jerome Flynn and Dusk‘with Myanna Buring Costarred in the Crime Thriller Series from Richard Warlow.