Russell Edwards claims Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber, is the serial killer, though some people doubt his evidence

British historian Russell Edwards claims to have identified Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski using DNA evidence from a crime scene. Kosminski, a mentally ill Polish immigrant, allegedly committed the infamous murders in Victorian London.

Donald Swanson's lengthy policing career saw him lead investigations into some of the worst crimes of the Victorian age

The unknown killer, who earned the name Jack the Ripper, had brutally raped, mutilated and murdered five women, most of them sex workers, in London's Whitechapel district between 1888 and 1891. However, historians believe that the number of victims was much higher.

After 137 years, the identity of the infamous serial killer that terrorised London in 1888 has been revealed through DNA evidence.

The brutal murders by Jack the Ripper had terrorised the murky slums of the Whitechapel district in east London in the autumn of 1888.

DNA analysis concluded that Aaron Kosminski, a Polish immigrant, was the notorious serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.

One of history's oldest mysteries, the true identity of the infamous serial killer "Jack the Ripper," who terrorised Victorian London's East End in the late 1800s—may have finally been solved after 137 years,