Aaron Kosminski (born Aron Mordke Kozmiński; 11 September 1865 – 24 March 1919) was a Polish barber, hairdresser, and suspect in the Jack the Ripper case. Kosminski was a Polish Jew who emigrated from Congress Poland to England in the 1880s.

Aaron Kosminski appears to have being the leading suspect for officers Sir Robert Anderson and Donald Swanson. He was put into Colney Hatch Asylum in 191 and from there he went to Leavesden Asylum where he died in 1919.

Jun 2, 2024 · Thanks to DNA found on a shawl at one of the crime scenes, some say 23-year-old Polish barber Aaron Kosminski was Jack the Ripper. Though the study's researchers are confident in their DNA analysis, many genetic experts have come out strongly against it.

Oct 7, 2019 · In 1891, Aaron Kosminski was confined to the Colney Hatch Asylum. The five “canonical murders,” officially credited to Jack the Ripper, stopped soon after. Cambridge University has copies of Aaron Kosminski’s psychiatric records from the …

Mar 18, 2019 · Researchers say they have finally unmasked Jack the Ripper, the infamous serial killer who terrorized London in the late 1800s. A forensic investigation published in Journal of Forensic Sciences...

2 days ago · In 1891, Kosminski was admitted to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum following a suspected schizophrenic episode. During the suspected breakdown, he reportedly threatened his sister with a knife. 28 years later, in 1919, Aaron Kosminski died in Hertfordshire’s Leavesden Asylum from gangrene and was buried at East Ham Cemetery.

Jan 13, 2025 · A new computer generated image of Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish immigrant from Poland rumoured to be the fabled killer Jack the Ripper

…of his homicidal tendencies; and Aaron Kosminski, a Polish Jew and a resident of Whitechapel who was known to have a great animus toward women (particularly prostitutes) and who was hospitalized in an asylum several months after the last murder.

Apr 20, 2023 · Aaron Kosminski was a Polish-born immigrant residing in Whitechapel at the time of the murders and working as a barber. Little is known about Kosminski’s life, but records suggest that he was born in 1865 and moved from Poland — then controlled by Russia — to London with his brother, Isaac, sometime in the early 1870s.

Oct 7, 2024 · Mr Edwards used DNA evidence from the shawl of one of the victims to "prove" that Jack the Ripper was in fact Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish immigrant from Poland who was a prime suspect during the...