Did Patricia Cornwell solve the case? Was Walter Sickert really Jack the Ripper?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:57:41 Without a doubt the most highly-publicized Ripper book to come out in recent years has been Patricia Cornwells Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed. Cornwell claims to have found DNA evidence linking Walter Sickert to a small number of Ripper letters. Her book rapidly climbed the best-seller lists and was the subject of numerous radio and television programmes around the world. Unfortunately, as we mentioned above, the Ripper correspondence is almost certainly not from Jack the Ripper. Although a handful of letters the Dear Boss and From Hell letters, for example are believed by some researchers to have been real, no DNA matches were found to these items. Instead, DNA matches or, more appropriately, similar mtDNA sequences were found on lesser-known Ripper letters which were never considered by the police to be from the true killer. In the end, Cornwell may have found evidence to suggest that Walter Sickert hoaxed one or more Ripper letters but t
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