New DNA Evidence May Have Finally Identified Jack the Ripper — 137 Years Later

Two scientists at British universities say they have done what Scotland Yard could not. They took a stained scrap of silk, pulled a genetic profile out of the blood dried into it, and matched it to a living descendant of a woman murdered in Whitechapel in 1888. Then a second stain gave up a second profile, left by someone else in that square, and it traced to the family of a man the detectives of 1888 had already written into their files. 137 years later, the Ripper may finally have a name. It is not the name anyone was expecting.