Jack the ripper- Identity apparently solved after 126 years

According to the Daily Fail. I'll believe it when an actual news provider says it. I trust zero articles from that shower of ****e.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746321/Jack-Ripper-unmasked-How-amateur-sleuth-used-DNA-breakthrough-identify-Britains-notorious-criminal-126-years-string-terrible-murders.html

Jack the ripper has apparently been unmasked as polish born Aaron Kosminski his DNA evidence was found on one of his victims shawls that she wore while she was murdered, apparently the murders stopped when Kosminski was incarcerated in a Mental Asylum.

Interesting,
Do you think it's true?
I'm kinda sad, if it's been solved I've always loved reading theories etc about it.

The problem is that each time there is a new discovery it appears convincing until the sceptics get to work.

The key issues are:

1 Was there a Jack the Ripper or were a number of unrelated killings linked? One has to remember that the current five victims are a construct of 20th century researchers. 'If you had asked anyone in Whitechapel at the time they would have attributed many more, since discredited cases, to the Ripper's death toll. Accordingly this man may have murdered Eddowes without being Jack.

2 What is the opportunity for cross-contamination? This shawl has spent many years in Scotland Yard's Black Museum with many other Ripper artefacts.

3 What are the chances that Kosminski was a client and not a killer? Kosminski is not a name out of the blue. There were reasons that he was a suspect in the first place.

4 There are already confusions between Kosminski and other Polish Jewish suspects.

5 In an era when it was very easy to lock up madmen, Kosminski was released from a workhouse infirmary only a couple of years after the murders only to be re-detained some months later; which seems inconsistent with an official belief as to his responsibility.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746321/Jack-Ripper-unmasked-How-amateur-sleuth-used-DNA-breakthrough-identify-Britains-notorious-criminal-126-years-string-terrible-murders.html

Jack the ripper has apparently been unmasked as polish born Aaron Kosminski his DNA evidence was found on one of his victims shawls that she wore while she was murdered, apparently the murders stopped when Kosminski was incarcerated in a Mental Asylum.

Interesting,
Do you think it's true?
I'm kinda sad, if it's been solved I've always loved reading theories etc about it.

1. Yes, and those stopped in 1891 when this guy was incarcerated. Also, the chances of this guy being the murderer of Catherine Eddowes and not being the ripper are very very small. There were all the hallmarks of the ripper's MO in this murder.

2. That is a possibility but apparently there were seaman staines on this shawl so you have to ask how that could be cross-contaminated.

3. Another possiblity but unlikely. There were a lot of prositutes at the time. It would be a major coincidence seeing as this guy was a prime suspect that he was under police surveillance at one time.

4. Yes, a lot of that confusion comes from people writing about the case 20 years later and getting a few facts mixed up.

5. Not sure what you mean by this?

5. The police did not have strong enough evidence to convict the guy and there were also some worries about stirring up anti-semitism which was much more rampant back then as well, see rochdale grooming scandal.

Those Poles. Coming here, killing our hookers.

3. Another possiblity but unlikely. There were a lot of prositutes at the time. It would be a major coincidence seeing as this guy was a prime suspect that he was under police surveillance at one time.