Aaron Kosminski - Jack the Ripper

Don’t you think it’s time you knew my name?

Allow me to introduce myself to you. My name is Aaron Kosminski. You won’t know me by name…yet. I was born in 1865 in Poland. In the early 1880s my family escaped the Russian pogroms, and we were lucky to take refuge in London, where I lived together with my two brothers and sister in…

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Jack the Ripper Johnny Depp Tim Burton

Jack the Ripper Johnny Depp Tim Burton

Jack the Ripper, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton and us – the men who solved the 126-year-old murder mystery on how their lives have changed Meet the Merseyside men who unmasked Jack The Ripper “I’d like Johnny Depp to play me in the film of our story, but he would need to cut his hair –…

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Russell Edwards – Whitchapel Society Article

Russell Edwards is a 48 year old businessman, originally from Birkenhead, who has, after years of dedicated research, produced the definitive evidence to prove the identity of the world’s most famous murderer: Jack the Ripper. Russell, who is married with two children and now lives in the south east of England, explains here how a…

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Russell Edwards on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme

Russell Edwards on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme

The identity of Jack the Ripper has been revealed in a new book by author Russell Edwards. Speaking on the Today programme, he explained that investigations revealed a number of details about the Victorian serial killer: “He was a Polish immigrant that came over to Whitechapel in 1881 with his family.” Dr Jari Louhelainen, a…

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Catherine Eddowes Shawl - Jack the RIpper

Jack the Ripper was Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski, book claims

Infamous killer is identified from blood samples on a shawl found next to one victim’s body, says ‘armchair detective’ Source:  The Guardian   A self-confessed “armchair detective” claims to have solved perhaps the most notorious whodunit ever by claiming to have discovered the identity of Jack the Ripper. Russell Edwards claims Aaron Kosminski, a 23…

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