Was Jack the Ripper a woman?

[johnnie]

" The notorious serial killer who stalked London's East End, butchering prostitutes and terrorising the population, may not have been Jack the Ripper - but Jill.

An Australian scientist has used swabs from letters supposedly sent to police by the Ripper to build a partial DNA profile of the killer. The results suggest that the person who murdered and mutilated at least five women from 1888 onwards may have been a woman.

Ian Findlay, a professor of molecular and forensic diagnostics, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he had developed a profiling technique that could extract DNA from a single cell or strand of hair up to 160 years old. Conventional DNA sampling methods require at least 200 cells."

More:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=691554


That would be something..huh?

[frogmarch]

1. Interesting

Even w/o conclusive evidence to support the idea, it seems plausible to me that the killer could have been a woman. Maybe someday we'll learn the truth.

(A male Jack the Ripper could have donned the victim's clothing to escape too.)

[XanaDUer]

2. Did you read that book by Patricia Cornwell?

She claims that artist Walter Sickert was JTR. Interesting book, although I am not so sure she is right.