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Originally Posted by pwalker8
True enough. I believe that "Naming Jack the Ripper" is the book that claims to have id'ed Jack the Ripper as Kosminski and that book goes into the detail of how they used the DNA to id Kosminski. I haven't read the book, so I can't really say if it's any good or not. On the other hand, I also saw an article that says that the DNA expert used by the author made a mistake.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...r-9804325.html |
I've heard that they got the DNA from an article of clothing that belonged to one of his victims. Of course after 100 yrs with perhaps thousands of people having handled the item who can say for sure how sample x got on item y? That's assuming of course that there is enough actual DNA still present and able to be linked to an individual. And how do we know that Mr. Kosminski's DNA didn't get there by innocent means. Perhaps the police had him handle the item of clothing for some reason or maybe he'd been a customer of the victim. The women were prostitutes after all so it's not outside the realm of possibility that he'd partaken of the the services of one of them at some point.