One of the most infamous serial killer, Jack the Ripper, had been recognized by DNA traces got from a shawl. Jack the Ripper's real identity; that's gruesome murders terrorized the slums of east London in 1888; it has remained a mystery, with numerous suspects that involve even prime ministers and royalty to authors. The doubts on the Jack Ripper sleuth identity is now over, after the extraction of DNA from a shawl got from one of the crime scene which matched from one of the suspect and the victim. The known Jack the Ripper killer is Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish from Poland, worked as a barber.
Russel Edwards is very interested in the story of the Ripper; he is a businessman, won the Victorian shawl from an auction in 2007. The story is about the Ripper's fourth victim and it came from the murder scene. The victim is Catherine Eddowes, on 30th of September 1888, the subsequent aghast of getting the bloodstained shawl tested for DNA was the idea of Sergeant Amos Simpson. The shawl has been passed through the direct descendants of the police, who saved it and left it unwashed. It was stored in he Scotland Yard's crime museum.
Edwards needed to know if the technology of DNA could decisively associate the shawl to the crime scene. The Senior lecturer in molecular biology at John Moores University, Liverpool, Doctor Jari Louhelainen, examined the blood stains. The seven small segments of mitochondrial DNA were isolates, which leads to the female line. The DNA were matched with the direct descendant of Eddowes, Karen Miller which confirms her blood was on the fabric. At the same time, the shawl was put under ultra violet light that reveals seminal fluids on it.
Based on the interview of Professor Alec Jeffrey, "An interesting but remarkable claim that needs to be subjected to peer review, with detailed analysis of the provenance of the shawl and the nature of the claimed DNA match with the perpetrator's descendants and its power of discrimination; no actual evidence has yet been provided."
