“100% It’s Him” – Historian Claims To Have Identified “Jack The Ripper”

Historian Russell Edwards claimed he has identified infamous London serial killer “Jack the Ripper.”

Edwards told NewsNation’s “Banfield” that 23-year-old Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski was the identity of the 19th-century serial killer.

“Oh, without a doubt, 100% it’s him,” Edwards said, according to NewsNation.

According to the New York Post, Kosminski died in a mental institution in 1919.

Edwards claimed to identify Kosminski as “Jack the Ripper” through “DNA evidence linked to a shawl found at one of the murder scenes,” NewsNation noted.

“When we matched the DNA from the blood on the shawl with a direct female descendant of the victim, it was the singular most amazing moment of my life at the time,” Edwards said, according to the New York Post.

Jack the Ripper has been identified as Aaron Kosminski—a Polish barber—through a 100% DNA match from a shawl found at Catherine Eddowes’ 1888 murder scene.

Kosminski’s great-great-grandniece provided the DNA, and legal teams are now seeking an inquest to officially name him the… pic.twitter.com/6AKEGyu2kp

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NewsNation reports:

Kosminski, a Polish immigrant, became a barber in Whitechapel, England, and was in a mental health facility with schizophrenia at the time of his death in 1919.

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A composite drawing was done to recreate Kosminksi’s image.

“This face is a facial reconstruction by an expert from the family photos that were given to me by one of the family members, by one of the descendants,” he said. “That’s actually what he looked like.”

Edwards turned his discovery into a book, “Naming Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Reveal.”

“With the evidence that we have, we can actually place Aaron Kosminski at the murder scene,” he said.

The most interesting piece of evidence, he said, is the 9-foot long and 2.5-foot wide shawl that helped bridge history’s mystery with forensic DNA.

It was in a police filing cabinet for over a decade, according to Edwards. Now, it’s in a bank vault, likely to go untested by police.

Jack the Ripper has been identified and confirmed as Aaron Kosminski. Wow, never thought I’d live to see the day. pic.twitter.com/OypJAGBWR7

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From the New York Post:

“We tested the semen left on the shawl. When we matched that, I was dumbfounded that we actually had discovered who Jack the Ripper truly was.”

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 suspect the death toll was higher.

The victims were Mary Nichols, 43, Annie Chapman, 47, Elizabeth Stride, 44, Catherine Eddowes, 46, and Mary Jane Kelly, 25. Three of them had their internal organs removed.

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After learning the shawl had been found at the scene of Eddowes’ gruesome killing, Edwards purchased in 2007.

“It was a voyage of discovery, with many twists and turns,” Edwards said. “The adventure was thrilling from beginning to end and I was lucky to experience it.”

Relatives of the five known victims have pushed Scotland Yard to take a fresh look at the 137-year-old cold case.

“We have got the proof, now we need this inquest to legally name the killer,” Edwards told “Today” in Australia. “It would mean a lot to me, to my family, to a lot of people to finally have this crime solved.”

Kosminski moved to England as a child, and worked as a barber in Whitechapel, Edwards learned.

He started showing symptoms of mental illness in 1885, and had been committed to a number of insane asylums.

Before his death at the age of 53, Kosminski reported having auditory hallucinations.

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