New Book Claims to Reveal Identity of Jack the Ripper Using DNA Analysis

An amateur sleuth with a book to sell and a scientist working in his spare time claimed to have solved one of the biggest murder mysteries in history by naming Jack the Ripper as a Polish immigrant in the 19th Century after discovering what they said

finally been solved. A forensic scientist claims he has proven the identity of Jack the Ripper, the notorious unidentified serial killer responsible of at least five horrific murders in London, England, at the end of the 19th century.

On the eve of the release of his book Naming Jack The Ripper, a British businessman claims that he has ascertained the real name of 19th century serial murder Jack the Ripper using 126-year-old DNA extracted from blood 

Jack The Ripper has been identified after 126 years[PA/GETTY]. But now an author and self-confessed “armchair detective” claims to have solved perhaps the most notorious whodunit ever, and discovered who Jack the 

DNA evidence has uncovered the identity of Jack The Ripper, and it's none of the romantic suspects – such as the Queen's surgeon Sir William Gull, or artist Walter Sickert. The most infamous serial killer in history has been identified as a relatively