This is not a video about solving the Jack the Ripper case and providing a sensationalized account of events. Rather, it is an exploration of statements made by three of the Victorian Metropolitan Police’s highest ranking officers that Jack the Ripper was known to them. Two of them claimed that he had been sent to an asylum, and one said that he died there shortly after.
The video reveals what those the three officers - Sir Melville Macnaghten, Sir Robert Anderson and Chief Inspector Donald Sutherland Swanson - wrote about their prime suspect, who, according to Swanson, was a man by the name of Kosminski.
You will be able to peruse the documents in which theory recorded their thoughts and theories on the investigation and about Kosminski.
Although none of them gave his first name, in the 1980s author and researcher, Martin Fido, whilst combing the records to see if he could find an asylum inmate who was admitted around the time of the Jack the Ripper murders, unearthed a man by the name of Aaron Kosminski who was sent to Colney Hatch Asylum in February 1891.
The video reveals the known fact about Aaron Mordke Kosminski, before assessing the case against him, which hangs on the fact that Chief Inspector Swanson named a man named Kosminski.
You will hear the case for and against his guilt, but will be left to draw your own conclusions as to whether the case against him is a strong enough one to make him history’s most infamous murderer - Jack the Ripper.
