I totally agree. Whitechapel was desperately poor; the surrounding people are going to notice an extremely well dressed gentleman walking through the streets with a cape. Such a person would have been watched as a potential robbery victim, if nothing else. It would have to be someone who blended in and was poor…

Not too amazing, no. I'd like to see independent verification, but it doesn't strike me as innately implausible. The woman's great-great-whatever granddaughter was kicking around Jack the Ripper documentaries and such for a while. And 1881 isn't all that long ago — if Kosminski's family is still in London,it makes…

It's sort of depressing to think that the Ripper wasn't anyone famous or powerful or wealthy or of notable consequence in the wider world. The fact that he was probably just some grubby psycho is weirdly deflating.

John Douglas named Kosminski as a very strong suspect in The Cases that Haunt Us, though I can't remember if he thought he was necessarily "the one" or not. So I'd heard the name before. It's amazing the DNA survived and that both he and the victim have matrilineal family members who could be located and tested…

No, I am not. If you read down the comments, I just didn't really give it the importance it deserved. Now I know.

Ok, got it. I admitted above that I didn't know about the anti-Semitism surrounding the case.

Doesn't she already have a good amount of money? She should fund it herself, or raise money from the wealthy people she knows.

I'll own up to it and say that I didn't know this about the case. *raises hand*

Yes, I understand those issues that you are talking about. I'll be honest and say that the comment just rubbed me the wrong way.

CATFROGGING. ::dead::

A quick YouTube search seems to suggest that your shit may stay in your possession.

A Google image search would suggest that there is a market out there for catfrogging. Think of it: movies, TV shows, action figures, t-shirts etc. There's a veritable fortune to be made off this stuff.

Team Cat Headquarters here,

So help me, if there exists another video of a different frog resting on a cat, I will lose all my shit.

The police also stopped patrolling around the time Kosminski was institutionalized. They knew it was him and sure enough the killings abruptly stopped. This was always the theory that made the most sense. People are just disappointed because the killer being a random impoverished and mentally ill man is just not as…

It was in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish immigrant residents and disorganized serial killers don't tend to kill outside of their comfort zone. There was a witness (also Jewish) who recanted and refused to testify because with the killer being Jewish he knew it would add to the climate of virulent anti-Semitism…

I disagree with the assumption that it is a "mistake" to post this video again. I vote for making it a daily feature.

OH GODDAMMIT.

Apart from the avalanche of wild speculative nonsense that the Ripper case engenders, Kosminski is actually quite an interesting suspect. One of the more convincing parts of the case against him is why Jack the Ripper suddenly stopped killing. Serial killers generally don't. The crazed, escalating nature of the…