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Jack The Ripper’s Real Identity Divides The Internet After Major DNA Breakthrough Resurfaces

Earlier this year, more than 130 years after Jack the Ripper terrorized London’s Whitechapel district, a team of forensic scientists had declared the case solved, naming 23-year-old Polish barber Aaron Kosminski as the infamous slayer.

The claim relies on DNA extracted from a silk shawl allegedly retrieved next to the body of victim Catherine Eddowes. Netizens, however, are not convinced.

DNA on a shawl found near one of the Ripper’s victims has been linked to Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber who lived right where the murders happened

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