Was Jack a woman?

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An Australian scientist has been in London to take swabs from the envelope of "Openshaw letter", the one thought to be sent by Jack the Ripper to investigators.

Back in Brisbane he extracted the DNA and unfortunately the results were inconclusive but he managed to make a profile which concluded that Jack the Ripper might have been a woman!! This was also the suspicion of Frederick Abberline, the detective who led the investigation. You can read more about it here.

I find the news rather interesting. A female lunatic running around slaughtering female prostitutes back in gray, foggy alleys in 1888. Exciting. Actually way more exciting than had the offender been male. Rarely do we hear about female sadists.

Also witnesses claimed to have seen Mary Kelly hours after she was murdered. This caused Abberline to suspect it might have been the murderer dressed in Kelly's clothes.

I do, however, wonder why Jack keeps being interesting. He didn't kill many compared to today's standards. I wonder if it's the brutality of the last crime or the fact that he - or she - was never caught.

We might possibly never know who did it but it's rather exciting to think about a female offender.