Catherine Eddowes, one of the alleged victims of Jack the Ripper.Photo:Historia/Shutterstock

Catherine (‘kate’) Eddowes Murdered in Mitre Square in the City of London 30 September 1888

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Per the outlet, police linked a single killer to five female victims. All five of the women were prostitutes and they were all mutilated, except for one, according to theBBC.

The Timesreports that in 2007, researcher Russell Edwards bought a shawl that was believed to have been found on Eddowes’ body at the murder scene in 1888, and Kosminski’s DNA was later found on it.

Mitre Square in London where Catherine Eddowes' body was found.Hulton Archive/Getty

Mitre Square in the City of London, with an arched passageway leading to St James’s Passage (formerly Church Passage), circa 1928. It was here that prostitute Catherine Eddowes was murdered by serial killer Jack the Ripper

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Per CBS News, Edwards sought the help of Doctor Jari Louhelainen, a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, who isolated small segments of DNA from blood stains on the shawl.

The DNA was matched with the DNA of Karen Miller, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Eddowes, while DNA from semen stains on the shawl were also matched with a descendant of Kosminski, leading Edwards to claim that Kosminski was the killer in 2014.

“On the testing, the first result showed a 99.2% match. Since the DNA has two complementary strands, we went on and tested the other DNA strand, which gave a perfect 100% match,” Louhelainen told U.K. newspaper theLiverpool Echo.

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Edwards, who is the author of the bookNaming Jack the Ripper,has now hired a legal team to push for an inquest into the murders, perThe Times.

According to the outlet, Edwards’ call has received support from Miller, 53, along with descendants of the four other female victims.

“The name Jack the Ripper has become sensationalized; it has gone down in history as this famous character,” Miller said, per the outlet.

“What about the real name of the person who did this? Having the real person legally named in a court which can consider all the evidence would be a form of justice for the victims, Miller continued, adding, “We have got the proof, now we need this inquest to legally name the killer. It would mean a lot to me, to my family, to a lot of people to finally have this crime solved.”

source: people.com