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Has London’s Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper finally been identified?

(Reuters) – Jack the Ripper, a serial killer who terrorized London in the 1880s, has finally been identified from DNA evidence from the blood-soaked shawl of one of his victims, according to a new book. Author Russell Edwards identifies 23-year-old Polish immigrant and hairdresser Aaron Kosminski as the notorious killer, suspected of the gruesome murders of at least five women in 1888. In his book “Naming Jack the Ripper” which is released on Tuesday, Edwards, a […]