https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/13/calls-for-new-jack-the-ripper-inquest-after-dna-found/
Relatives of Jack the Ripper’s victims are calling for a fresh inquest after DNA evidence emerged that may finally identify the killer.
At least five women were murdered by an unidentified serial killer during the autumn of 1888 in the Whitechapel district of London in a case that has remained unsolved for 130 years.
But the victims’ descendants are now calling for a fresh inquest after a bloodstained shawl was shown to contain the DNA of someone thought to be the notorious killer.
Aaron Kosminski, who was a Polish barber, was a suspect at the time but was never arrested because police had no evidence linking him to the killings.
But the shawl, said to have been found on the body of Catherine Eddowes, the killer’s fourth victim, was found to contain both her DNA and that of Kosminski’s.