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Identity of Jack the Ripper discovered via DNA Evidence
09-06-2014, 05:43 PM
Not to take away from the discovery of Jack the Ripper, but I wish all those "investigators" who spent countless time and money and proving who Jack the Ripper was 125 years ago dedicated there time to something more useful. Here's an idea: how about all those prisoners wrongly imprisoned with life sentences and scant evidence who could be released in light of new DNA matching technology! it's unfortunate that we're more interested in some historical figure's identity than helping people today who are victims of a corrupt justice system.
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09-06-2014, 06:01 PM
If this stands up on peer review and in the trade press, It will be quite the book deal. Admittedly, if the Daily Mail (or, as some in the UK call it, the Daily Fail) paid for any of this, I'm a bit on the suspicious side. It wouldn't be the first time a major newspaper/website made some money off of historical research, right or wrong. Beats the Daily Mail's usual coverage.
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09-06-2014, 06:53 PM
I read a great book called "the cases that haunt us" by John Douglas, the "Mindhunter" who came up with psychological profiling in crime scene analysis to come up with potential criminal IDs. This was the same guy he fingered as the likely culprit- an uneducated Eastern European immigrant with severe psychological issues. Never thought this would ever be proven, very cool. Thanks for the post!
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09-06-2014, 11:15 PM
Quote: (09-06-2014 05:43 PM)monster Wrote:
Not to take away from the discovery of Jack the Ripper, but I wish all those "investigators" who spent countless time and money and proving who Jack the Ripper was 125 years ago dedicated there time to something more useful. Here's an idea: how about all those prisoners wrongly imprisoned with life sentences and scant evidence who could be released in light of new DNA matching technology! it's unfortunate that we're more interested in some historical figure's identity than helping people today who are victims of a corrupt justice system.
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09-07-2014, 05:25 AM
Damn Polish serial killers taking the jobs of English serial killers
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09-07-2014, 06:05 AM
Quote: (09-07-2014 05:25 AM)bojangles Wrote:
Damn Polish serial killers taking the jobs of English serial killers
Yeah funny this comes out when immigration from Eastern Europe is a hot issue in the UK.
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09-08-2014, 01:10 AM
Russell Edwards form fitting black shirt and pants in the article photo: Excellent tailoring, impressive fit. No visible undershirt.
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09-08-2014, 02:00 AM
I don't know much about clothing; are you talking about the scientist, or the ripper?
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09-08-2014, 02:14 AM
This is quite interesting, given the prominence of the Ripper in the popular imagination for over 100 years. Although the crimes, and the identify of the perpetrator, have no great significance in themselves, it has become a haunting myth, as has the setting, the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London.
I will wait to see where the dust settles on this identification. There will be (and already is) a lot of knee-jerk rejection from Ripper enthusiasts, as the last thing they want is for the case to be settled. But we have the potential for closure, if disinterested scientists can confirm the validity of the DNA testing used.
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09-08-2014, 02:15 AM
Sounds like circumstantial evidence and a bloke subtly pimping his book to me.