This week an author, Russell Edwards, and a molecular biologist from Liverpool John Moores University, Dr. Jari Louhelainen, claim to have discovered through DNA the identity of Jack the Ripper. The London News reporting on Jack the Ripper Aaron Kosminski had been named as one of the 3 main suspects in the Whitechapel murders which took place in the East End of London between 1888 and 1891 by Sir Melville Macnaghten, the Assistant Chief Constable of the London Metropolitan Police. Eleven women were killed but the person who carried out these grisly murders has remained a mystery for the last 126 years. Until now? Dr. Jari Louhelainen used the method of extracting mitochondrial DNA from a shawl believed to have been owned by one of Jack's victims. The shawl was found beside Catherine Eddowes and was soaked in her blood but it also contained the DNA of a second person. According to Russell Edwards this second s...