Can modern DNA sequencing solve history’s greatest murder mystery?

Two geneticists declare the case of Jack the Ripper solved, having used mitochondrial DNA analysis to supposedly identify the notorious killer. In 1888, a series of murders in London’s East End started a mystery that continues to horrify and fascinate those who hear it. With his true identity unknown, a man known purely by the ominous moniker ‘Jack the Ripper’ committed multiple, brutal murders across Whitechapel (London,UK), crimes for which no one was ever convicted. It remains one of history’s most infamous unsolved murder cases, a seemingly perfect crime. A murderous past The exact number of murders Jack the Ripper...