A century of mystery narrows in surprising ways.

For more than one hundred thirty years the name Jack the Ripper has floated through history as a shadow with no face. Investigators, historians and forensic scientists have tried to pull him from the fog of 1888 London, only to meet dead ends and silence. Now fresh DNA work on long preserved evidence has revived a theory once dismissed as unlikely. The results are not definitive, but they have tightened the circle around one man more than any attempt before.



