Hey everyone. Welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek Levasser. And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

And as you can tell from the title of this

video, major update in the Jack the Ripper case, or we're to believe there's a major update. We're

going to talk about it. But essentially, from what we're hearing, and this has been out for a week

or two now, there's a historian slash true crime researcher who believes that he has identified

Jack the Ripper. And according to him, quote, he's 100% certain. And he did this through DNA. So

there's a lot more to this story. We're going to talk about it right now, Stephanie. What do we got?

Well, Jack the Ripper, for those who don't know, which I don't think there's a lot of you who don't know.

We covered them.

Yes.

You should know him because we covered it.

He's one of history's most infamous, unidentified serial killers, responsible for a string of brutal murders in the Whitechapel District of London in 1888.

And despite extensive investigations over the decades,

his identity remained unknown, making this case one of the most intriguing and studied

unsolved mysteries in true crime history. And generally, Jack the Ripper is believed to have killed

at least five women. They're known as the Canical Five between August and November of 1888.

However, some researchers do suggest that he may have been responsible for more murders.

Now, there has also been many, many people named as potential suspects for being Jack the Ripper over the years.

We talked about a bunch in our series.

And there's been books written. You know, everybody's got their own idea. But one of the names that

continued to pop up was Aaron Kaminsky. He has been one of the most widely discussed suspects

in the Jack the Ripper case. He was a Polish, Jewish,

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