WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Jack the Ripper unmasked:

BlueBag wrote:

Newt Fink-Nottle wrote:First, data regarding DNA should be published in a peer-reviewed, scientific journal...not a book.

It would never pass a peer-review.

Second, there isn't nearly enough provenance regarding the apron.

Yes, it wasn't in the first police reports/lists.

That said, if they can show more evidence for the apron's provenance AND if someone can replicate the results regarding the DNA, I'm willing to accept that Kosminsky was the killer of Eddows. That's it. Doesn't make him the Ripper.

Indeed.

But Eddow's descendants have handled the shawl over the years.. recently... so who's DNA is on it?

The woman was a prostitute.. how many other people's DNA did they find?

The simple solution offered in the book is anything but.

One thing is puzzling me or am I missing something.

Mr Edwards buys the shawl from auction and in good faith believes the historical story connecting the shawl to miss Eddowes.
He decides to pass it over to Mr D.N.A scientist man who comes back and I informs him that he has done extensive tests and has discovered stains identified as blood and semen.

Mr Edwards is so excited 

Mr scientists says ok what do you want me to do now

Mr Edwards says get a sample from a living descendant of miss Eddowes see if it matches.

Months pass Mr scientist comes back yeahhhhhh result it matches

Mr Edwards is over the moon.

Mr scientist asks what do you want me to do now

Mr Edwards says test the semen to see if we can match it to a suspect.

Which suspect asks the scientist we have Tumbelty, chapman, kominsky, Barnett, maybruck, sickert, druit well to be honest there's over 40 of them there suspects.

Mmm difficult to chose, we could pick the easiest one to trace possibly MAybrick I'm sure there descendants would be easy to trace.
Or pick one 

Ok we will go down the pick one out of the hat way.

Said hat appears and it is Kominsky.


Years of expensive research later as his traceable D.N.A is in Australia mr scientist has a result it matches but only secondary D.N.A.

Mr Edwards is ecstatic and thanks his lucky stars that the first suspect he picked out at random just so happens to match.

BlueBag wrote:The story if the shawl is very interesting.

There is no sound provenance for it.

Good discussion here by people who know this case inside out and backwards.

http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=8296&page=16

Gillyspot wrote:So Mitochondrial DNA (without provenance as victims relatives may have handled shawl at Jack the Ripper conferences) is good enough for Mirror etc to declare Kosminsky GUILTY but in McCann case DNA evidence funnily ignored??  Hmm...