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Descendants of Jack the Ripper's victims demand new inquest after breakthrough on killer's identity

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Published 13:09 14 Jan 2025 GMT

Descendants of Jack the Ripper's victims demand new inquest after breakthrough on killer's identity

Could Britain's most notorious cold case finally be solved?

Brenna Cooper

Brenna Cooper

Featured Image Credit: (North News & Pictures / Russell Edwards)

Topics: Crime, History, True Crime, London

Brenna Cooper
Brenna Cooper

Brenna Cooper is a journalist at LADbible. She graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in History, followed by an NCTJ accredited masters in Journalism. She began her career as a freelance writer for Digital Spy, where she wrote about all things TV, film and showbiz. Her favourite topics to cover are music, travel and any bizarre pop culture.

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Descendants of Jack the Ripper's victims have demanded an inquest following the discovery of new DNA evidence which could finally unmask the sadistic killer.

The case of Jack the Ripper is one of the most infamous and enduring cases in British crime history, seeing at least five women - Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly - brutally murdered in East London between 1888 and 1891.

Despite numerous theories cropping up over the years, Jack's true identity has never been uncovered. However, new evidence could finally solve the case once and for all.

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A depiction of what Jack the Ripper could have looked like (Russell Edwards)
A depiction of what Jack the Ripper could have looked like (Russell Edwards)

The supposed breakthrough came after author Russell Edwards purchased a shawl found at the scene of Eddowes' murder containing blood and semen stains and put the item through DNA testing, but this process has since been disputed by scientists.

Edwards was then able to find a DNA match to a descendant of Eddowes, as well as claiming he'd used the semen to find a distant match for a relative of barber Aaron Kosminski, one of the most prominent Ripper suspects.

He has since published the findings from his investigation in his book Naming Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Reveal, which outlines his arguments for Kosminski being the killer's true identity.

Kosminski was a Polish barber who emigrated to London in the 1880s and had been named as a suspect at the time but was never arrested due to lack of evidence. He would later die at Leavesden Hospital (then an asylum) in 1919.

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According to MailOnline, the latest update in the case has seen Edwards hire a legal team to press for an inquest into the case, which is backed by the descendant of Kosminski and Karen Miller, the three-times great-granddaughter of Eddowes.

Karen Miller, a descendant of Ripper victim Catherine Eddowes (North News & Pictures)
Karen Miller, a descendant of Ripper victim Catherine Eddowes (North News & Pictures)

Explaining her reasons for backing the calls for an inquest, Miller said she wanted to see justice for the five women.

"What about the real name of the person who did this? Having the real person legally named in a court which can consider all the evidence would be a form of justice for the victims," she said.

"We have got the proof, now we need this inquest to legally name the killer.

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"It would mean a lot to me, to my family, to a lot of people to finally have this crime solved."

The sentiment is shared by Sue Parlour, whose husband is distantly related to Nichols and Amanda Poulos, the three-times great-niece of Kosminski.

"A second inquest is the only way of confirming what happened," Edwards added.

"As we now have identified the true murderer with a wealth of evidence putting the man we named as the Ripper in the frame, we want justice to be served."

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