“A new book to be published this week claims to have pinponted once and for all the true identity of Jack the Ripper – a revelation made in part thanks to a 2001 film starring Johnny Depp.
“It is claimed a 23-year-old Polish immigrant called Aaron Kosminski was responsible for terrorising London’s East End in 1888, leaving a trail of at least five vicious and bloody murders in his wake.
“In the book Naming Jack The Ripper – to be published in Australia this week by Pan Macmillan – the British author Russell Edwards names Kosminski as the Ripper after having evidence found at one of the crime scenes analysed using DNA technology.”
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