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Now let's see JonBenet Ramsey's case solved.
Would be great!
… I literally came to the comments to say, “…and yet we still can’t find JonBenet’s killer”. However, I do believe they are trying to get the DNA processed now, so 🤞🏻
It was solved by MAGIC! 110 milligrams of magic. The rest of the solution was solved by 84 Girl Scouts who promised they’d give gingerbread cookies to everyone after they cracked the case!
Exactly!
Legit ! Like how is jack the ripper more important to solve than jonbenet ffs
This bloke has been flogging this story for years. He first made this claim 10 years ago and purchased the shawl 10 years before that. He's written a book and had his "DNA" tested twice and published. A peer-reviewed article on the DNA analysis was published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences in 2019 criticised the paper and its conclusions, substantiating that there were mistakes and (mis)assumptions made by its authors and the journal printed an expression of concern.
Sounds like he’s trying to justify the purchase price of the shawl.
@@mikaelafox6106 😂😂😂
I.dont.belive.it.to.many.hole.in.his.storey.can.you.say.con.artist
Agreed. How do we even know for sure the shawl he bought was authentic? I would also be less skeptical if they checked and verified the same dna from multiple victims.
Plus she was a prostitute so I'm sure that shaul saw a fair bit of dna. And maybe he was only a suspect as he was seen with her prior to her death. Might just have been after some action.
This could not possibly be a 100% match, the shawl is over a 100 years old, could not possibly have been stored in the required environment to preserve the evidence without it being tainted.
Correct
But I bet u believe when scientists say a skeleton is 500 thousand years old and their last meal was figs found fossilized in the stomach
Yup. Jack the Ripper cons are extremely common, unfortunately.
the reliability of this evidence is debated. Critics point out that the shawl's provenance is questionable, as it is not documented among Eddowes's personal effects by the police. Additionally, the DNA analysis was based on mitochondrial DNA, which is not unique to individuals and can be shared by many people. Therefore, while the findings are intriguing, they are not considered conclusive proof of Kosminski's guilt.
it's a 100% match with the guy's DNA. You can take the DNA from a creature that died 20,000 years ago and sequence it. Think about it.
If the case was officially solved, it would have been a headline news all over the world, even in my country of Finland.
The entire jack the ripper story is a LIE! It was concocted by Scotland yard to get people to accept FINGERPRINTING as a crime solving technique!
That's a logical fallacy. They don't teach you about those in Finland?
@BigJohnson-g3j Apparently you did not notice it was sarcasm from my side. I personally do not believe the case is solved even if there was DNA. The reason why there was DNA should be explained in the first place.
@@klaseronen7535 Ah ok. I'm glad that was sarcasm! I can't stand people who say things like "If it happened it would be all over the news". Yes they should give more details.
@@BigJohnson-g3j I usually do not tolerate people who ask annoying questions. 😄 However, it's okay in this case so thanks for your comments.
Just because a shawl has his dna doesn‘t mean he killed the lady it simply means it was her customer.
That would be quite a coincidence, though.
Right, just as a fingerprint doesn't prove someone commited a crime, it only means they were at the location where the crime was committed.
Thank you.
Her customer?
@ Think about the type of women Jack the Ripper killed.
This shawl has been handled for decades! How is it not considered contaminated after all this time?? I’ve heard this before and some scientist saying it’s not accurate at all.
Very true. It's like the Shroud DNA controversy.
If it's been handled a lot, especially by those who haven't worn gloves, then there's a chance the test could be inaccurate due to contamination.
And it just so happened to be handled by Aaron Kosminski, one of the suspects? How do you explain Kosminskis DNA on it?
@@Bookworm-ye9qi Yes, a Polish immigrant and not native born so definitely low probability. There is other evidence that supports the case such as the murders stopping while he was in a mental institution. However, copycat. murders are a real possibility. Let's see what the inquest says.
@@Bookworm-ye9qi You don't because there is no evidence that Kosminski's DNA was on it or that the victim ever owned it. The researchers who published the paper claiming they found Kosminski's DNA and the victim's DNA on this shawl say they lost the data when asked by the Publisher and editor-in-chief of the paper to produce it. This is bunk.
In 1988 my bestie and the time and I were two budding Forensic Pathology students. We had asked for information and all kinds of items from the JtR case and we had gotten them! The Pictures at that time were not that widely out there and I am sure you can imagine how that looked to two 18yr olds! I am glad to see that this is some sort of closure to the families and the stories of these poor unfortunate women! People forget sometimes that even 135+yrs later - there is still family that cared what had happened to their relatives!
Most these women were on the street because of a society that didn't help you and well called you 'Unfortunates' but that was more a slur then empathy! A Lot of these people took to prostitution to pay for a place to sleep and drink to numb their pain. They didn't deserve to be murdered on top of this and then forgotten to history! I am glad they weren't and family was still around to help the investigation along!
It seems to me we only remember because "Jack the Ripper" was infamous. I mean, how many people could name his victims?
I totally agree, well said in this toxic feed! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
There's much more to it than that alone, one of the women was a teacher. Three of the women were not prostitute's, but homeless, and sleeping on the streets because they couldn't afford lodgings, none of them were from Whitechapel. There was no protection for women whose marriages broke down, Polly ended up in this situation because she left her unfaithful, abusive husband, Annie was an alcoholic who actually went to one of the first alcoholic rehabilitation centres in Britain (for middle class women, I know)
There is so much more to each of these women than a simple word which was factually incorrect.
Thank you @vanessahenry7238. 💜
@@billybunter3753 All serial killers are infamous.
@@narelleellis765 You totally missed my point...
As A Ripperologist, this has long been my suspect...Scotland Yard felt he was the man, but they could never link him to the crimes, and he died of syphilis, alas, the murders stopped, so what were they to do?
What year did he die
And did he know how to read and write English he's a Polish immigrant skitzo
If he couldn't read and write he probably didn't commit the murders
Yeah no the man died in 1919 no way he was the ripper
I believe the Ripper was an educated man who wasn't an immigrant to do what he did and never find any bloody clothes or anything from him tells everything you need to know He was calculated and educated He split the last victim all the way open no bloody foot prints no clothes no anything from the murderer
The murders stopped after several suspects either left, were committed to an institution or died.
Omg. The *match* has been debunked by scientists and the shawl is a table runner with no chain of of custody. This is absolute BS.
I agree. Plus the shawl does not even look over 100 years old!
He only mudered people. The giggly hosts are talking like they're previewing the next upcoming LOTTO draw.
Such disrespect
It seems to me they are excited to have it solved, not excited about the murders
Right
@@Levin-ey1bu There's no evidence he, whoever he is, murdered anybody.
Thought exactly the same, guessing the producer did too, thats why they dial it back halfway through.
Does anyone else think these anchors look way too cheerful for people talking about a series of brutal murderers?
It didn't happen last weekend. They're happy a historic mystery might be solved.
You certainly don't need a high level of intelligence to become a talk show host or TV news anchor.
I have to agree. Look up a song called Dirty Laundry.
It's been a while. They didn't know them. They have apparently solved a huge mystery which will clear the reputations of other suspects. I hope this makes you feel better.
Been a long time.
They haven't identified the Ripper, they've identified DNA off a shawl that could've been left there at any other time.
It was DNA from a porn set. John Holmes was Jack The Ripper! Case closed! 😂
If anyone wants to know, I've done complete investigation in this cold case. Shawl does not mean Kosminki is the ripper. But he is a lackey being used by the folks who did it. Police knew at the time he was envolved. This is a very complex operation and cover up to kill these woman guilty of treason. Several existing suspects are envolved in a collusion. Michael Maybrick, Walter Sickert, Sir William Gull, and others are in it. The cops knew what was going on and kept their mouths shut. Kosminski was used as a lackey and they tried to pin it on him. But when this failed, Michael Maybrick came up with a genius idea to construct a diary to frame his brother James as the killer. But this plan failed and the diary was lost until 1992. The public needs to understand this is a very complex collusion and cover up. It is why police records were sealed for 100 years. Because the public can't know what happened.
That’s what I was thinking but who knows
So someone put his blood on the shawl to frame him but he died before they could do this type of DNA ... alrighty then.
Right! Eddowes among other things did sewing work for members of the local Jewish community in Brick Lane. So it could be from her shawl being wherever this guy lived &/or worked. She was also turning tricks, so could have been in contact with any number of guys including him, no harm done.
As well, people were milling around at the scene where the body was found. There was no concept in those days of crime scene integrity.
I am not convinced that the police would even hand over a bloodstained shawl to her children. It could belong to any family member from that era.
5th or 6th time in my 60yrs I've heard someone confidently claim to have solved it.
Even with my complete lack of expertise I think I could poke a few holes in this theory.
yes plus was mary murdered by a stranger , or someone she knew? shes ended in her rented flat , no force entry so maybe knew the murderer , which i would think was George Hutchinson . hes in an area every murder occured.
A shawl found at the murder scene found with the victims DNA and blood that is a one hundred percent match to prime suspect. Explain away...
@Auudubillahi where's it been last 130yrs? Not an evidence room. It would be inadmissible
@@Auudubillahi Could very, very easily be a previous customer. Either that night or any other time since the shawl was made, as laundering wasn't great in those days.
Yes I could poke a little to…
It was Lechmere.
Don't prove anything . He could have been a customer of hers a day, week or even a month or more before she was murdered . D.N.A. still does not link him to the crime...
Jack the Ripper will never be solved . Let it go .
No one else noticed that the shawl was NOT covered in blood. The Ripper left EVERY scene a mess. I guess it was just a flesh wound. 🙄
Looks clean and laundered.
From what I understand, any DNA found on the shawl would be so degraded as to be unusable for a DNA test.
Also I have seen another shawl reported to be hers and it looked totally different.
There were lots of things not covered in blood, I've seen the pics.
*THIS purported **_130-year_** old shawl that spent 100 of those years being handled before DNA testing was even a thing?* 🙄
Good point.
Yup exactly, how many hands has that shawl passed through?
I thought of the same thing, but hopefully you also heard about the indications that this man’s character/condition was in harmony with that DNA diagnosis. Let’s “stay-tuned” since likely a book will come out that will offer more research and, hopefully, facts. And, remember, they never said it was touch DNA.
Yes it is.
The blood was still on it. The oldest DNA ever extracted is 2 million years old...
There's nothing new about this story. It's been floating around on the internet for almost a decade.
Yeah but 'his theory has already been dis proven, some people just don't want to accept it!
It is what it is . Id'nit ?@@Burlybigfoot
looks like the compares were chosen for their looks rather than their brains
Try 5 staged murders Canonical 5 ? How did they know, because they only staged 5? Please fact-check?
@Burlybigfoot the code: Canonical 5 ? If ical means pertaining to? Canon pertaining to 5 ?swap the a and o? Conan pertaining to 5? Conan was the writer of Sherlock HOMES? Conan pertaining to 5 staged crime scenes? A study in Scarlet was written before the jtr crimes began , in it, you get written in blood on the wall but blood doesn't belong to the dead man?later you find out its German for revenge? The writing on the wall jtr the juwes are the MEN (plural) ?
Hate to burst your bubble-- that shawl has never been confirmed to have been worn by the victim at the time of the crime and kozminski's own descendants have since handled the shawl. Debunked. Try watching "Well, I Never."
It is also possible that Kosminski could have been a recent client of the victim, so could have been in contact with the shawl but had nothing to do with the murder.
Hate to burst yours - but HER DNA identified through her BLOOD being on it as well as his solves the case, unless you want to believe the rather absurd proposition that somehow, before she was murdered, both she and Kosminski bled on the same garment at almost the same time. How likely is that? No doubt it's disappointing to some people, who really prefer the case never be solved because they like speculating about it, just like they never like famous/infamous people dying but are always claiming that they've been "sighted" or lived on as someone else, but this solves it. Sorry!
Exactly, this is nothing new.
That’s a great channel 💕🇳🇿
This prob could be proven as well as most murder cases are proven today - I mean not every murder has witnesses who are 100% sure of those involved in a murder or indeed sure about a timeline that puts someone at the scene guaranteed.
I guess they ARE missing a confession which may be the only difference in the end.
If this can be proven in our lifetime IT IS a big thing.
Oh gee, here we go again, what a die-hard. Okay:
1. the shawl is now the subject of alleged 'proof' for the *3rd* time (presented by 3 different parties) over what's now decades. What the gentleman failed to say here is that the only DNA from the shawl that could be used is *mitochondrial* DNA. Mitochondrial DNA is shared by a *lot* of people and is commonly not accepted as conclusive evidence. The reason why the shawl keeps coming up as an object in these 'revelations' is because it is the only purported piece of possession of one of the victims (and this will provide a little bit of limelight for yet another party claiming to have solved the case. Again. With the same shawl. As others have claimed before).
2. Citing the Macnaghten memorandum doesn't incite much confidence either. Melville Macnaghten was an Assistant Commissioner *never* involved with the case, who scribbled down the names and some information of 3 men who, in his opinion, should be suspects rather than a 4th (Thomas Cutbush), among them Kosminski and Montague Druitt - of the latter he got several details completely wrong.
3. Schizophrenia or any other psychotic disorder is actually unlikely with a murderer, who's MO included the ability of approaching his victims and accompanying them to a discreet place without causing their suspicion. A psychotic disorder cannot be controlled by the afflicted, can't be turned off and on. People tend to conflate the words 'psychotic' and 'psychopathic'. A psychopath is in control enough to plan the crimes and to evade detection (legally sane). A psychotic isn't capable of either, and an episode would be obvious to anyone approached.
4. Kosminski is a dead end. He can't be conclusively linked with any of the crime scenes, including those of probable victims after Mary Kelly - yes indeed, Alice McKenzie and Frances Coles, copycat murders like these are a myth. Coles was murdered *after* Kosminski had been interned into the asylum.
There were quite a number of police personnel involved in the investigation, from different departments, and many had their own favourite suspect; Abberline thought it was George Chapman, Robert Anderson was the one who brought up Kosminski, but is believed to have later mistaken him with another Colney Hatch inmate, an unidentified man given the name David Cohen (at the time a 'John Doe' reserved for Jewish men), who was described as being raving mad. The whole Kosminski/David Cohen story has been quite befuddling for many.
Anyway. Good luck with the High Courts. None of the 'evidence' presented here is holding much water.
Maybe this guy was misdiagnosed.
Thank you! I so appreciate you taking the time to explain this to people like me who do follow along but don't have your detailed knowledge. But it does seem to me that the mitochondrial DNA goes far to identify this person as "the guy." Yes, it is insufficient as evidence regarding the entire population, but does it at least eliminate the others in the traditional pool of Ripper suspects? I don't know if we have family DNA of those other suspects.
p.s. my main concern here is that somebody wants to jump on the band wagon, using the same tools 2 parties have used before him, and declaring 'I have solved the case'. In other words, let a few years pass, and present yourself as the guy who cracked it.
Actually, schizophrenia is very likely tied to murder--a lot of murders are as a result of it. Are they convicted murderers? No, by grounds of insanity. But it does lead a lot of them to murder when they're not managing the illness.
So what? Mitochondrial DNA can be used to determine someone's female predecessors going back thousands of years. There are many genes that are shared by many people, like the various haplogroups. It doesn't mean you can't tell them apart, that's nonsense. If even a few genes are different that is enough, the rest can be the same.
0:18 "This guy! wait not this guy, different guy."
Heh heh
😂
Kosminski has been on the radar for years!
Yes!
along with hundreds of other suspects.
@TheZodiacz he was one of the ones looked at hardest. When the case was fresh
Aaron is Jewish name, and he was Jewish not Polish barber
@andrzejzieba703 plenty of Jews have sky or ski in their last name.
The audio is terrible. I couldn't understand anything.
Or their voices. Guest is nasal as hell.
Same here 🙁
Nah, that's just an Englishman 😅
@@michaelbergsma6185 Oh FFS… They’re Australian.
I am deaf. So it wouldn't make any difference to me 😊
A competent lawyer nowadays would tear this apparent proof apart in court. Nothing has been solved with any reliability whatsoever.
maybe
And are you a competent lawyer or a wannabe
Case closed -- whether u like it or not.
Any attorney should be truth seeking, not looking for a way to get somebody off who is guilty. That is evil!
Exactly! Thanks.
My understanding of this based on some previous news is that the shawl contains DNA from the blood of the victim (a prostitute), and semen from the alleged murderer. He could have just been a previous "customer".
I used subtitles and still couldn't understand what this guy was saying.
Yeah, sounded like he had a bad cold.
So he's trotting out this thoroughly debunked nonsense in Australia, now that no-one who understands the case in the UK pays this any attention.
Heheheheheh well said !!! A load of Bow Locks !!
It was not debunked. The previous results were oversold. The DNA tests then showed DNA from the split body parts of someone consistent with Catherine Eddows and DNA from someone consistent with Aaron Kosminski. It later turned out, they could not be as sure as they said but no-one proved the DNA from either of those people didn't match. To claim that this was debunked is far from the truth.
This is OLD NEWS. And everything I searched online claims they weren't able to actually tie him to the murders!! That shawl was taken home by a policeman so the evidence was already contaminated!
Yes, however the author has just re/ released the mist onto date findings.
The researchers then vacuumed up what DNA fragments the could from the shawl, finding little modern contamination and many degraded short fragments, consistent with DNA of that age.
They compared mitochondrial DNA in the sample, which is passed down from mother to child, to a descendent of Eddowes, finding that it was a match.
They found a match to a descendant of Kosminski in other bits of mitochondrial DNA.
All the data collected supports the hypothesis that the shawl contains biological material from Catherine Eddowes and that the mtDNA sequences obtained from semen stains match the sequences of one of the main police suspects, Aaron Kosminski.
So what. What are the odds. You are probably an attorney.
The blood on it was a 100% match with his DNA.
@@October_Baby How did they get his DNA from 130 years ago ? If they got it from a descendant the only way it could be a 100% match is if they are inbred. Else there would be other DNA mixed in and it cannot be 100%
Just because it's not breaking news to you doesn't mean it's inaccurate.
They're confusing 2 different suspects who had 2 very similar names...
David Cohen (1865 - 20 October 1889) was a 23-year-old Polish Jew whose incarceration at Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum on 7 December 1888 roughly coincided with the end of the murders. An unmarried tailor, Cohen was described as a violently antisocial, poor East End local. He was suggested as a suspect by author and ripperologist Martin Fido in his book The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper (1987).
Fido claimed that the name "David Cohen" was a generic substitute, used at that time to refer to any Jewish immigrant who either could not be positively identified, or whose name was too difficult for police to spell, much in the same fashion that "John Doe" is used in the United States today. Fido identified Cohen with "Leather Apron", and speculated that Cohen's true identity was Nathan Kaminsky, a bootmaker living in Whitechapel who had been treated at one time for syphilis (which he caught from a prostitute), and who could not be traced after May 1888, whilst records of Cohen began that December. Fido suggested that police officials confused the name Kaminsky with Kosminski, resulting in the wrong man coming under suspicion.
Cohen exhibited violent, destructive tendencies while at the asylum, and had to be restrained. He died at the asylum in October 1889. In his book The Cases That Haunt Us, former FBI criminal profiler John Douglas asserted that behavioural clues gathered from the murders all point to a person "known to the police as David Cohen ... or someone very much like him".
Thank you. That´s very very interesting.
Ugh, the tiny hats strike again.. literally.
The tiny hats history and current events show them to be vicious
Great info. Thank you!
@@AdanHooper
What is a vicious tiny hat?
This will never be solved. No one will ever know who Jack the ripper was. So let this rest once and for all.
Not true. A clairvoyant, or other type of psychic, could’ve told us long ago.
I know at this moment the grandson of H.H.Holmes things Holmes was Jack the ripper
In one way a poor Jewish man ,mentally disturbed. The authorities at the time thought so - but didn’t want to say, they were afraid it would start a antisemitism, and didn’t want that. But this has been known for some time…
This makes sense!
@@AdanHooper No, it doesn't. They had several suspects. Being a suspect doesn't make him guilty. If his DNA was identified (we would need someone else to duplicate those results, at a minimum), that could mean only that he was a customer of that woman.
I don’t think the police in 1880’s London were concerned about antisemitism. Unfortunately they did not have a lot of the tools we have now to prove who was the ripper.
Was the shawl kept under such conditions as to eliminate cross contamination? ''Closure''- seriously?
There's a video of a prior interview with the owner of the "shawl" and he was handling it with no gloves on and the interviewer even handled it.
Besides that there is no real evidence to prove that it belonged to Eddowes and that it was even used as a shawl. Some people who have actually had a close look think it might have been more likely a side table covering.
@@bluecard009 thanks
Cross contamination from someone who died 100 years ago? How was he going to contaminate it? Do you even understand how DNA analysis works? Of course you don't, that was a rhetorical question. Gee, how do we determine the DNA of species that died say, 12,000 years ago? By your logic all DNA testing that was not from start to finish in a completely sterile environment is wrong. Do little reading, at least.
This was discovered 5 years ago and there are plenty of YT videos about it. Why is this presented as though it's a new discovery?
Yeah, a right anticlimax when you know it's already been answered....I thought this was new info !!! Oh well...
They announced the following day that World War Two had ended.
It is click bait
I enjoyed the news first fo me.
I never heard it
I am not 100% convinced yet. How do we know he didn't just hire the shawl owner out for a fling? Is his DNA on other Ripper victims? That would be much better evidence that he may be the killer.
If he was murdering prostitutes the likelihood of men’s dna found on the clothing would be high. This can’t be confirmed unless there was dna found on multiple of the victims items. This is reaching. That man could have been a customer.
Well who knows what will be found in the future. It may be confirmed, it may not be, but they guys blood was on the shawl.
It’s not him. Sorry, this suspect was debunked a long time ago.
Crap!! Even if it can be proven to be Eddows shawl and even if this guy's DNA is on it, it still doesn't mean he is the killer. This is 2+2=5. Garbage.
my thoughts exactly
Exactly! It would not even hold up in court because the chain of custody wasn’t maintained.
That’s true, she was a prostitute in the same are where he lived (Whitechapel), he could have just been a client. Actually, he most certainly was one at one point. But if you watch the documentary made about him three years ago, here on UA-cam, there is a great lot more pointing at him, and it’s proper historical research too. It’s all circumstantial though unfortunately, and if the shawl was tempered with indeed it would not hold in court anyway. Regardless, that’s why the authorities at the time just put him in an asylum. I mean he was schizophrenic anyway, and that’s what they did to schizos back then. That plus the heavy suspicion of murdering those women were enough for a life long trip to the asylum. The lack of evidence led to no court case and made the case seem cold, but this one detective was pretty sure that it was him at the time. Again, watch the documentary, you will understand why.
Indeed, it's quite possible that the infamous Jack the Ripper could have been Jill the Ripper, as historical evidence remains inconclusive regarding the identity of the killer. While Aaron Kosminski has often been suggested as a prime suspect due to his mental health issues and proximity to the crime scenes in Whitechapel, the lack of definitive proof leaves room for speculation. The true identity of this notorious figure from the late 19th century could just as easily belong to a woman, challenging our preconceived notions about the nature of such violent crimes.
What was the documentary’s name?
There is too much time and people handling evidence to make it reliable
Aaron Kosminski was already a suspect, then they found his DNA on the shroud taken from one of the murder scenes.
That makes it pretty clear it was him.
There could be other DNA samples on it, but they are of non-suspects, people who simply handled it.
@@pathamm5834 Exactly.
It is probably a distraction, at this point.
Yep!!
Still it's coincidental he was a strong suspect
He said DNA extracted from blood on the shawl, how is the perpetrator's blood on there? Did he cut himself or were there other bodily fluids involved?
I read an article that said there was blood and semen found.
I thought he was referring to the victim, to prove it was her shawl, and that it matched her present day relatives....
@@originalartbymas2805 and the victim was a prostitute. He could have been a previous "customer".
exactly
@gctzx Not unlike Walter Sickert, who was seen socializing with some of the victims, and was also at several of the murder scenes doing sketches for the Newspapers and the one coroner's inquest.
There are several lurid Boudoir Impressionist paintings of unidentified street women that are part of Sickert's surviving collection.
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
I actually understood what he was saying but I don't believe this case has been solved conclusively. There are too many unknown factors.
Gosh, the hosts are so cheerful….
The victim saw many men. I have no faith in their DNA evidence. A lot of people handled that shawl.
So Brian Kohlberger and OJ are innocent
Did a lot of people bleed on it though who were also suspects to begin with?
Including many police men.
@sfletch3042 how much blood are we talking about? A gallon or a speck? Because you can have blood in your pee and I'm pretty sure In your semen. He looked like he stayed clean shaven. He could have had a razor cut.
Zero percent reliability.
I agree. He touches the infamous shawl that the murder victim wore with ungloved hands. Further, many of the victims were prostitutes. This guy might have used her services but not murdered her.
Defo a foreigner!
NOT DNA! 100% reliable.
He just so happened to be a suspect for many years before the DNA Match
How so?
0:30 I cannot understand a single word that guy is saying. Even the Closed Captions can't figure it out.
😂
Thank you for saying!! I was thinking I can’t understand majority of what he’s saying. And my nose started to plug up listening to his plugged up nose. 🤣
😂😂😂
So, his name isn't even Jack? I want my money back.
You were rip-ped off.
@@davidcopson5800
Very clever
@ nicely played!
@ 💯
And yet, we can’t find JonBenet Ramsey’s case.
I'm more than a bit dubious.
Me too!
Why are you dubious?
Except that he has been on the shortlist of likely suspects for a while. But, as the historian guy says, there are further steps to be taken. We'll see in due course.
@ If it were true, a real media source would have been all over it, not this loser.
Nah it was him! There was a CSI style documentary about it a couple of years ago that was very thorough in terms of research and already pointed at him. Everything fits in with this suspect, and now with the 100% DNA match the case is solved, there is no further discussion. Opinions are irrelevant after a 100% DNA match pall lol. Just saying! 🤷🏽♀️ It’s called science! 😀
Barber jizzed on the shawl and is now branded as Jack the Ripper.
The reliability of the DNA match has to be questioned. In the 100 plus years since the murders the artifacts have been handled by countless people, the original police officers, members of the press, amateur detectives with their own theories, authors writing " true crime" stories, and countless "Ripperologists" who for whatever reason needed to personally see and handle the artifacts. The DNA could well have been left by any number of people over the last century.
well if it's a 100 percent match, that means this dude handled it. but yes, obviously 100's of people could/would have handled this. and we don't even know for sure it is an actual, genuine item from the murder scene.
It wasn’t touch DNA, it was semen, the shawl also contains biological material from Catherine Eddowes and that the mtDNA sequences obtained from semen stains match the sequences of one of the main police suspects, Aaron Kosminski, and from descendants of. Catherine Eddowes.
So his DNA just happens to be a 100% match on the shawl of a victim. Lol
@@October_Baby How did they get the reference sample of DNA from the murderer dead more than 100 years ? If they did not dig up his grave and take the sample from that, it is impossible to get a 100% match. Think it through.
@@jeffreyhutchins6527 They probably kept DNA from all the suspects.
Instead of waisting money on finding out a 150 year old mystery,
Try investing your time and money on solving modern day murders and missing children!!
These poor women were human beings too. They were brutally murdered. Justice should be served for them as well as everyone else equally. Have some compassion and respect FFS.
@Anonymousey44
JUSTICE, What justice,
His been dead for years ,
Unless you're planning on doing the time for him yourself‼️
It has nothing to do with having no compassion,
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@fairyqueen-m7t Again, no compassion 🙄 you don't think there are descendents of the poor murdered ladies? You don't think any cold cases should be solved because the perpetrator is probably dead? Are you serious?
@Anonymousey44
The descendants didn't even know these young ladies, only from what they heard like us all,
yes, of course they want closure to a mystery,
But as I've said, there's murder victims of today
With immediate family that won't be around in 150 years and they would like closure now,
And missing children that families of today are grieving over, wondering what happened to their loved ones,
personally, as I've said,
it's more appropriate to try and solve these cases at this present time ,
to give their families the closure they need whilst they are still alive !!
Instead of telling the family's who never even knew the people, oh, we've finally got justice because we know who it was,
Again, what justice the perpitratore is dead ,
More to the point of satisfying the morbid curiosity of others
Would be the only reason resources are wasted, lining the pockets of those who have something to gain out of it!!
Justice has already been served on Jack the Ripper. He met God. Nothing we do now will change history. I think people will always be curious about these unsolved murders but it would be better to spend money looking for missing children and solving murders that happened in this century.
FFS - it was a 130 year old shawl that procured without certain providence and handled by lots of people in that time. Additionally, this "discovery" (ahem) was made in 2014. It's hardly breaking news.
"CLOSURE"...oh come on. It was over 100 years ago.
closure = $$
The victim has descendants you know.
@@October_BabyDescendants who have grown up never knowing the deceased, just hearing the stories like we all have. Unless each successive generation intentionally traumatized their children over the deaths of the long-dead relative, they shouldn't really be in a place emotionally where they need closure.
You can still care about your ancestors even though you did not know them. That is your family
@ I don't think a lot of things should be the way they are, but they are that way anyway, regardless of my opinions about any of it. Lots of opinions on what should be doesn't change anything.
The evidence is tainted, having been handled by too many people.
Jack the Ripper sounds like the name of a guy who has really bad flatulence 🤣
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Russell should've called in sick and sent a colleague instead. I couldn't understand 70% of what he said
No, this is not new and not true.
Sorry, but this was discredited over a decade ago.
Its not a shawl recovered at yhe scene. Edwards is also a proven grifter...google his name and the Saddleworth moor. He grifted how he found the body of a missing child, murdered by Brady and Hindley in the 60s. He didn't. Its proven he didn't.
Yes I've read about him. As dodgy as a 3 dollar bill.
Correct
Also, the description of him as a historian is vague. He has no qualification in history. 'Amateur historian', maybe?
Could many thousands of reasons why his DNA was present.
Friendly reminder that schizophrenia and homicidal tendencies have very little correlation. Hearing voices is hallucinations and happens in several conditions including substance abuse. It seemed to me there was a casual attempt at linking the two, which is a very rubbish thing to do.
This is a really old story and that match is true but it doesn’t mean he was the Ripper. It’s been suggested that he could have just been a customer of that lady.
And he just happened to bleed on her shawl as a customer? More likely she tried to fight him off and he got cut during the act.
The chain of custody has long been broken this will never be accepted by a court
Even if the chain of custody was solid, and even if it was certainly the victims shawl (I gather that there is no police record of it), the presence of DNA on a prostitutes shawl is meaningless. That could easily be explained away, by even an incompetent attorney.
@@magnificenthonky Really? How do you explain blood away?
I don't believe it. They will never know for sure who did it.
You accused someone as the jack the ripper and he couldn't even defend himself is so unfair. And how did his blood ended up on the shawl? Did he cut himself? And, also, that evidence is so contaminated.
This info came out about 10 yrs ago and it wasn’t peer reviewed/supported by independent DNA professionals.
This is old news ( known to have been researched back in 2015 ) and has been discredited previously. The Today show needs to do more research of their own.
Beat me to it. Cheers.
but this is a new test, that concluded on a 100% match this time...
@@alfredosilvaneto And it is impossible to get a 100% match using a descendant. You are not even a 100% match with your mother. Much less with any ancestor living 130 years ago
it has not... at all ANYWHERE. you're talking out of your un-educated ass
you can't even get a proper hit if you use ANY search engine for "Aaron Kosminski Disproven, debunked, fake or ANY other form" secondly, we have read every paper from Cambridge university and even the The head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation
Come on, guys! This was debunked a long time ago.
It can't be debunked with 100% certainty.
The evidence as presented wouldn't lead to a prosecution is the events occurred today...this is just silly..it will sell some books though.
“We would like to prosecute this corpse/urn….!!”
Exactly what this is about
Aaaaand he's touching the shawl with his bare hands, leaving his dna; just like so many people over so many years...
Pristine unhandled and preserved evidence for sure. This is a joke
Really? Could be dna of someone she was in touch with, May not be the murderer.
We can punish the Ripper's descendants, thought, right? And get reparations? Right?
I know what you’re getting at and all I’m gonna say is that you can’t even compare this ish to slavery and the events/systems that have taken place after. So stop grasping for straws. Why would somebody ask for reparations for murders that happened 120 years ago?
He was considered a suspect, among others for decades.
Kosminski is innocent...he didn't die shortly after being put in an asylum...fact is he lived untl @1918...he was not considered dangerous while incarcerated...fact is he was very lathargic...and when he was arrested...his offense was self abuse ( Public masturbating )...nothing dangerous...and I have seen nothing from any family member believing he was the killer...he also had no job during murders...most of the killings occured on bank holidays...which led most officials to believe killer was employed
I think that most of the people who doubt that Jack the Ripper was Polish, are Brits who are like 'No, he was one of us.'
An FBI profiler thinks he was "white". It would have been easier for a local white guy to engage with his victims, then blend into the scenery and avoid suspicion than a Jew.
Polish jew*
whatever, kosminski was debunked as a suspect years ago.
Let me contest that theory: it was a man called Clic K Baites
The worst interviewers on the planet.. couldn’t be serious for 5 minutes on the breaking of Jack the Ripper killer.. no surprises
Man they figured this out like I don't know years ago I remember that
I remember decades ago that guy was the #1 suspect but they had no pictures
He’s either a Brummie, has a head cold, or he’s a Brummie with a head cold
He's actually Scouse. Sounds nothing like a Brummie, and as a Brummie, with a Scouse father, I am aware of the difference in the accents.
Maybe a yam yam with a scouse accent
@@thomasinamcnaughton7020 Well said. I was born in Birmingham and this guy is definitely not from England's second city!
nose talkers
It's some kinda English accent to me 😃🇺🇸
Still keeping Prince Albert in a can.
he was on the original investigation list
Kominski was always a name in the Jack the Ripper case.
He was actually one of the main suspects. A witness refused to testify against because they wouldn't testify against a fellow Jew
I read the book about kosminski years ago, there was a problem with the DNA test, debunked, catherine eddoees shawl
what was the problem?
Sounds like you can expect a new book soon. Written by this shawl-owning mofo
Aaron is Jewish name not Polish, he was Jewish barber!
@@andrzejzieba703he is both a polish jew
One article I read said they couldn’t definitively tie the shawl to the scene as it wasn’t listed in the investigation as being there.
Aaron Kosminski matches the 1988 FBI profile of Jack the Ripper perfectly. Even Aaron Kosminski's surviving family believed he was the murderer. I know he is an obvious choice that many internet detectives won't be able to accept. But, Aaron Kosminski fits so well as the murder for so many reasons. If the evidence and the profile fit you must convict.
What has the FBI done about this ? I would have thought this a Scotland Yard case, and they wouldn't need any yanks getting in on it ! And I really don't know who you intend to convict....a corpse ?🤣
@ScorpIron58 The FBI profilers are respected throughout the world. They have assisted in the closing of incredible amount of notable cases. The Jack the Ripper case is a great who done it. I was not aware it was exclusively the property of Scotland yard.
Sometimes profiling is junk science. There was a case where kids were being killed. Of course a white man was made to fit the crimes. Guess what it was a black man. You can't convict on a profile.
@@TheBelegur Well , me neither, I was just surprised the FBI would put any resources into this hundred year old serial killer investigation. Are your sure they did ?
I think the murders stopped right when he moved back to Poland. Right when he was physically incapable of committing them. If he was framed it was by someone with government connections.
What BS.
Sounds like he's under water. Great job with the audio.
How many people would have handled this shawl over 130 years - what absolute rubbish!
0:20 Unfortunate timing from comment to picture 😅
How?
I noticed that
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How did they match murders DNA from scarfe to his body?
Through the descendants of the victim and the suspected murderer.
You do know they don’t even need to know anything about whose DNA it is to track the person down right? It’s called genealogy and it’s why previous cases are being solved these days where all they had was the killers DNA but no suspect to test it against.
He sounds like Ash from Alien after Ripley tunes him up.
No that was Parker, in the living quarters, with a fire extinguisher.
That DNA has been around since like the 1860s. How is it even still viable?
Actually, not necessarily. I looked it up and there are some potential issues. That includes the number of people who have been handling this over time. There was also some potential issue with how the results were interpreted. And this wasn't peer checked.
Does it bother anyone else when someone starts their answer with, "So ...." ?
yes. It's like it was taught at some Famous Broadcaster's School.
Maybe it's the mandala effect, but I heard & watched a program about the exact same thing, YEARS ago!! The exact same info they just went over here is identical from the program I watched!! 😮 I've actually been telling people this for years, as well. I don't know why, but I've been fascinated by this case since I was very young, so I followed all/any new info very closely.
@wendygore2709 - it is not just you - I recall that too
this 'shawl evidence' is not new and it's authenticity is not certain
I just saw a clip asking if this guy is the The Ripper on UA-cam from 3 years ago, so you may very well have.
I have watched the same documentary as you, so to me the case was already solved as well! Lol But I think that at the time they were still missing the DNA on the shawl to confirm their suspicions of him. They did mention getting the test done next tho, at the end of the documentary I think.
Holy sh1t me too!! I thought I had dejavu!!
Me too :). Soon as he said the name I was like wait, what? I have heard about this chap before ....
Maybe maybe not
There is still hope for Johnny Gosh, the black dahlia and many more.
I’m related to a man that descended from the first convicted mur*er in the US (after we gained independence) and that case helped to set the precedent of murder trials (fortunately relation is threw marriage because it seems mentality is hereditary in his family)
I can understand maybe every 5 words being said
That's what subtitles are for.
@@ozrob8726
They should have used them. The auto-generated version is unreliable.
Lechmere was the real Ripper
Yes!!! I am sure of it! The victim was still bleeding when he found the policeman. Then there are the Thames Torso Murders…