Is Jack the Ripper Finally Solved?

Most of what we’ve been told about Jack the Ripper and the surrounding case just isn’t true.

The five women weren’t all “unfortunates,” aka sex workers, as the Victorian press labeled them. Only one had any documented connection to sex work. The name “Jack the Ripper” almost certainly came from a letter written by a journalist, not the killer. And in 2019, a peer-reviewed DNA study declared the case closed, until the scientists started reading it line by line.

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