the identity of Jack the Ripper is one
of the most talked-about unsolved
mysteries of our time nobody really
knows who Jack the Ripper really was but
plenty of people have come forward with
guesses as to who or she might be yes
that's right I said she an expert has
come forward with a bombshell of a claim
and that claim is that Jack the Ripper
the notorious killer from London's East
End that murdered five women in 1888
could have been a woman welcome back to
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links are posted down below back in 1888
a murderer terrorized London's East End
the murderer cut up and mutilated
prostitutes and caused mass hysteria in
England the media called this murderer
Jack the Ripper Scotland Yard was never
able to figure out who the Ripper was
and all of their suspects were men it is
clear that whoever the Ripper was they
must have had some medical knowledge and
a strong sense of how the human body
worked just based on how they chose to
murder their victims while the murders
were happening the Ripper or someone
pretending to be the river since
Scotland Yard's several letters as if to
like taunt them a little bit the letters
were signed Jack the Ripper but rather
than Jack it might have actually been a
Jill and Australian scientists Ian
Finlay a professor of molecular and
forensic Diagnostics examined swabs from
the stamps and seals from some of the
letters Jack the Ripper was believed to
have sent the police he used the samples
to construct a DNA profile of whoever
licked the envelope he apparently
developed a profiling technique that
could extract DNA from a single cell and
even a strand of hair that was up to 116
years old
for some perspective most DNA sampling
requires at least 200 cells at first the
samples were inconclusive but later it
became clear that the saliva on these
envelopes came from a woman even though
this sounds pretty unexpected it does
make some sense after Mary Kelly was
killed who is one of the most famous
victims a witness claims that they saw
her the chief inspector on the case
Frederick abberline suggested that the
woman that the witness saw might have
actually been a female killer escaping
while wearing Mary Kelly's clothing it
is possible that this killer could have
been a midwife and had medical knowledge
a woman would have also had much easier
access to other women and the victims in
the killer's murders the interesting
thing is the woman who could have most
likely committed these
was actually hanged back in 1890 for a
different crime her name was Mary
Pearcey and she was a midwife she
murdered her lover's wife and child and
use a method similar to the rippers the
victim's name was Phoebe Hogg her corpse
was found in a pile of garbage in
Hampstead England her skull was crushed
and her head was almost completely taken
off her body her baby was also found
dead in Finchley the cause of death was
suffocation when police searched Mary's
home it was covered in blood stains
which she said came from killing mice
Mary was also reported to have chanted
killing mice killing mice over and over
in the presence of police which could
support the idea that she was likely
mentally unstable the lead investigator
on the case is not the only person who
thought that the Ripper could have been
a woman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the
creator of Sherlock Holmes also believe
that the Ripper could have been a woman
he said that if the killer was a midwife
she could go around London with blood
splattered clothes and no one would
think anything of it that being said all
evidence against Piercy is
circumstantial and there are no
eyewitnesses that link her to the
rippers crimes what do you think could
the Ripper have been a woman let me know
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