The Mists Part

[poliphilo]

So Jack the Ripper wasn't a man in an opera cloak after all- not royalty, not the Queen's gynaecologist, not Walter Sickert, not any sort of criminal mastermind-  just a man so obscure he didn't even leave a photograph behind. His name was Aaron Kosminski, a misogynist and compulsive onanist who heard voices and used to eat from the gutter because of his fear of prepared food. He spent most of his adult life in asylums and died- of gangrene- in 1919.

Is anyone surprised?

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

DNA evidence can't prove anything other than that a particular person had contact with a particular object, so it can never be more than circumstantial. The why and when and how have to be proved by other means. In this case, contamination of the evidence, along with itsage, leads even DNA evidence to be suspect.

I do agree, however, that Kominski is a more plausible murderer than many that have been suggested.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Kosminski is exactly the sort of person one would be looking for in a case like this. And apparently the police (or some of them) were sure he was the perp; they just couldn't prove it.