Why Jack The Ripper was never caught as 'identity is revealed' 130 years later through '100% DNA match'

The reason the failure to capture Jack the Ripper when he was terrorising the streets of Whitechapel in the 19th century, has been revealed.

It looks like the identity of the infamous serial killer has been 'revealed' after a '100% DNA match', that is, if we are to believe 'ripperologist' Russell Edwards.

The historian has been studying the case and the heinous crimes around it for years - as well as what the serial killer may have looked like - over 130 years since The Ripper carried out his killings in London's Whitechapel district in 1888.

It is believed that he murdered at least five women by the names of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly between August 31 and November 9 - known as the 'Canonical Five'.

Edwards claims that the extracted DNA from a recovered shawl found on Eddowes at the scene proves the true identity of the serial killer, who he says is 'Aaron Kosminski', a Polish barber that emigrated to London.

A relative of Kosminski's was also happy to be tested, which helped to crack the case, claims the expert.

He recently told The Sun that he felt 'elation' when he 'saw the 100 percent DNA match', adding: "This brings closure and it's a form of justice for the descendants."

While acknowledging that he can't put him behind bars today, he can bring him to justice and for courts to admit that the findings are correct, so that families at the victims can be at ease.

The author has previously spoken to LADbible about the killer, and in particular, how he got away with multiple murders.

Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of Whitechapel in 1888 (Getty Stock Photo)

Believing that the shawl belonged to Jack himself, Edwards explained that a 'huge amount of science' went in to prove that it didn't belong to the victim.

"We thought it was her shawl, but through the scientific analysis, we realised that she couldn’t have afforded to own it and realised the only person that could have left the shawl at the murder scene was him," he recalled.

But after other experts analysed the shawl, he was sure of it, and while some others claimed that the evidence pointed towards a man named Walter Sickert, Edwards was certain that it was Kosminski.

The Kosminski family was eventually contacted, and told him that 'they know' it was him that was Jack the Ripper.

Going into why he possibly wasn't caught, Edwards explained that the absence of DNA testing and other modern technology played a huge part in authorities struggling to catch the killer.

He also claimed that police knew who he was, explaining: "Robert Anderson wrote his memoirs, The Lighter Side of My Official Life, and in there they admit they knew the identity of Jack the Ripper.

"They also say they knew the identity of the guy who wrote the name Jack the Ripper in the ‘Dear Boss’ letter but they didn’t want to tell tales out of school."

Anderson was the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police while the Ripper murders were being investigated.

The serial killer is believed to look like this (Russell Edwards)

Edward claimed that the killer was protected, as the suspect's brother was a Mason, and that some of the murders were linked to the 'three blood oaths' of the group.

He said: "One is have their throat cut, the other is have their innards thrown away, another one is to be tied a rope's length from the sea."

Edwards explained last year that he was eager to take his findings to the UK's High Court, his third attempt to do so in the last few years, adding: "It's been brought and prepared for a case to go to the High Court, that’s exactly what we’re trying to do.

"The case, which has been not just a little piece of paper or just a comment from a scientist, the entire case, and the barrister, a High Court barrister that basically worked in the Royal Court of Justice, so the highest court in the land is the level this man's at."

He went on: "He's also got a PhD in biochemistry, and both him of the coroner have seen evidence that's convincing enough that it was Kosminski.

"A high court barrister with a PhD in biochemistry, on the back of the coroner's comments, actually states that if the newly presented DNA evidence was available to the coroner back in 1888 it would have been justifiable for the coroner to arrest Aaron Kosminski and try him for the murder of Catherine Eddowes and the other four so called ‘Ripper murders’."

At the time, The High Court said that they didn't comment on individual cases.