Lemme see... we have a hooker who was killed and possibly semen stains on a piece of apparel owned by the hooker.
Just how does that make Kosminski the killer.
Has anyone considered that:
1. Perhaps Kosminski was her last client and hence the reason why his semen was found on the shawl.
2. Does anyone find it somewhat troubling that a 126 year old item was never washed.
3. What about the cross-contamination possibilities over the rather significant period of time.
4. Were the tests conducted using a blind testing mechanisms.
An interesting article, but the first thing that came to my mind was that the claim is bound to have a positive impact on book sales.
Maybe I just spent too much time in the realm of police investigations and am prone to asking too many questions.
My sentiments exactly. If the DNA match is valid, it seems to me to be strong circumstantial evidence, but certainly not a slam dunk. That said, it would be a huge step beyond any evidence that had previously existed.
The article says that it was blood, not semen that was found.
...who used pioneering techniques to find DNA from her blood and that of the killer.
... I managed to find this in another article:
" Jari Louhelainen, a senior lecturer of molecular biology, said in a video promoting Edwards' book. "We had some stains that were consistent with sperm stains."
I should have been a tad more specific in my last entry... I do tend to read a variety of different articles whenever a specific subject is brought to the fore.
*sigh* I've read so many books on who REALLY was JtR and there are so many possible suspects, so many red herrings. Whoever Jack was, he got away with it, and we may never truly learn his identity.
Now, the killer of the Black Dahlia...now that's another murder altogether but seeing a book was written by a highly respected police inspector (I think) in LA, who claimed that no less a person than his own father had done the deed....search for it under Black Dahlia murder and go from there.
The article says that it was blood, not semen that was found.
The report I heard was that it was the victim's blood, and the possible perpetrator's semen found on the scarf, which was attested to not be the victim's property (suggesting it was not a "client's" semen) ...
GeneralE did it with the candlestick in the observatory.
An intriguing theory indeed ... Library? Maybe ...
Actually, I've been in at least three observatories: Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, Chabot Space and Science Center in the Oakland hills, and the Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles, as well as the (old) Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
