Jack the Ripper
Aaron Kosminski
Aaron Kosminski was a Polish Jew, who immigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1880s. He was considered to be a suspect in the Jack the Ripper investigation. Assistant Commissioner Sir Robert Anderson wrote in his memoirs that a Polish Jew had been identified as the Ripper but that no prosecution was possible because the witness was also Jewish and refused to testify against a fellow Jew, but the whole story seems rather unlikely to be the truth.
Kosminski did live in Whitechapel in the 1880s and worked as a barber. According to some sources, in 1891 (when the murders stopped) was admitted to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum when he threatened his sister with a knife, but nothing in his biography before and after that point suggests that he was aggressive.
Even though he lived in Whitechapel during the activity of the Ripper, even though some modern methods of geographical tracking down of the serial killers suggest he lived in the part of Whitechapel same as Jack the Ripper, there are no other evidence that would link him to the murders.
Also, his personality and mental disorders do not fit the profile of a killer like Jack the Ripper - he was passive and suspicious towards people around while the killer would be more likely to boast about what he has done, just like in his letters.
Do you have what it takes to solve a case like this?
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@Logic
I dont know where did you get the idea that in Polish word "żyd" is pronounces anything like "juwet", it isnt - the first letter (ż) is pronounced like the last syllable of the word "prestige"
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Has anyone ever considered that he was a calculating man and changed his MO because the victims in his later killings could have been traced back to him more easily, which is how he was caught, and that he slashed the Whitechapel victims because he could get away with it. His personality and past behaviors toward his wife (and other women) would suggest that he was very capable of committing the crimes done by Jack the Ripper. It is also to my understanding that he had monetary motives with the later victims, so he had to make the deaths look natural for those purposes in addition to making sure the murders couldnt be traced back to him if the looked like natural illnesses. Also, lets say for arguments sake that the Goulston street graffiti was actually written by the Ripper. The message itself is largely indecipherable to anyone other than the killer. But, the most credible reports indicated that Jews was spelled "Juwes". This is interesting because if you listen to how the word Jews is pronounced by a person saying the word for Jews in Polish, you will see that it could be that the writing on the wall was just a poor English transliteration from the Polish word for Jews. In Polish the word for Jew is "zyd", but its pronounced similar to "juwet" with the W having the V sound. They probably had the guy, just a classic case of not enough evidence.
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