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Who is Aaron Kosminski?

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Recently, scientists have sampled DNA from a shawl believed to be present at the scene of a Jack the Ripper murder. The scientists have managed to trace the DNA to the victim Catherine Eddowes. She was one of the so-named “canonical five”. There were eleven murders between April 3rd 1888 and February 13th 1891. They were all attributed to Jack the Ripper, but many of these were done by the newspapers and were unofficial with tenuous links. The “canonical five” all had similar fatal slashes to their necks. Catherine Eddowes was the fourth of the five. She died on September 30th 1888. She was one of two women who were murdered that night. Both were linked to Jack the Ripper, […]

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