More than 135 years after the grisly Whitechapel murders shook Victorian London, a British researcher claims to have finally ...

Jack the Ripper brutally raped and eviscerated five women, most of them sex workers, in and around the city’s impoverished Whitechapel district between 1888 and 1891 — though historians ...

Jack The Ripper May Have Been Identified, According To New DNA Tests. Matt Prigge Contributing Writer Twitter. March 18, 2019. ... Tags: DNA, Jack The Ripper, MURDER, TRUE CRIME.

He arranged for the shawl to undergo DNA testing, the results of which were published in 2019. Geneticists Jari Louhelainen and David Miller obtained mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from two people.

Although it may sound like the Jack the Ripper case can now be closed, the DNA evidence has been contested over the years. The blood and semen on the shawl are over 100 years old and in 2014 ...

News media was buzzing today with a claim that scientists had finally figured out the real identity of the notorious 19th-century serial killer Jack the Ripper thanks to DNA and an old shawl.

A recent DNA study on Jack the Ripper has been making the rounds, but it turns out that it has some huge flaws. Read on for more details.

London's mysterious "Jack the Ripper" serial killer, who was active over 100 years ago, might finally be identified through mitochondrial DNA left behind at the scene of one of the crimes ...

Two men claim to have identified Jack the Ripper using DNA found on a shawl owned by one of the killer’s victims, saying the murderer was Aaron Kosminski, a Polish immigrant.

Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer who butchered women in London's Whitechapel district in the late 1800s, has eluded identification for about 125 years, spawning wide speculation about ...