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is there any forensic evidence stored from the jack the ripper victims that could extract useable dna evidence? (which then could be matched with relatives of potential suspects?)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Patricia Cornwell, the crime fiction writer, has written a book (Jack The Ripper: Case Solved)detailing her claim that she has "proved" that Jack was Walter Sickert, the acclaimed artist. As part of her research, she (and her team) took swabs ftrom various "Ripper Letters" and tested for DNA and....oh, I can't be bothered with the details. If you wish to read more on this subject, go to casebook.org
Sorry about the liberal use of quotation marks, but there are so many ifs, ands, buts and maybes connected with this research. If they do manage to get a DNA profile, what does this prove? Other than that someone or other may have written some crank letters to the police. As you can probably tell, I don't put much faith in the title of her book.
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It is indeed a recent book. There is another book, which is still being reprinted (I saw it in ASDA t'other day) called "Jack The Ripper: The Final Solution" by Stephen Knight. It popularised the tale that the murders were a masonic conspiracy, involving (among others) Prince Albert Victor, Sir William Gull (Queen Victoria's doctor) and, on the periphery, Walter Sickert. This book was the inspiration for a mini-series starring Michael Caine and, unfortunately, has lead many people to erroneously believe that the identity of Jack the Ripper has been solved beyond doubt.
In the early 1990s, Jean Overton Fuller wrote "Sickert and the Ripper Crimes", which claimed that Sickert himself was Jack the Ripper.
I've read Cornwell's and Knight's efforts, but not Fuller's.
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