Exhumation of the victims today.

[DJA]

Good luck.

[mpriestnall]

o

I hope Prosector finds his great aunt,however I am confident that MJK was a 29 year old local named Mary Ann Kelly.

G' Day DJA,

I have a candidate for Kelly too and we can't all be right!

I have a lot of time for Prosector's book. I thought it was very well written.

My candidate for JTR (got one of those too) was a surgeon's son and I found some interesting and useful material in his book regarding JTR's supposed anatomical skill and/or knowledge.

FWIW my take on the Miller's Court event is that another person (not Kelly) was murdered to kill off the investigation and to provide cover for Kelly's relocation.

Notwithstanding one should never say never, the authorities will never allow the exhumation of the supposed body of Kelly to avoid the possibility of DNA being extracted from it and used to prove it wasn't Kelly after all.

My 2d.

[DJA]

I hope Prosector finds his great aunt,however I am confident that MJK was a 29 year old local named Mary Ann Kelly.

[mpriestnall]

Thank you to the person who liked my post (I'm sad I know!)

And I am not wrong.

And I'm unanimous in this!

[mpriestnall]

A small point often missed in the discussion regarding Kelly's exhumation, and I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoz8iXjfH4Y

[Columbo]

Exhumation probably wouldn’t yield new clues concerning the killer but DNA could help locate living relatives for MJK. But probably not going to happen.

Columbo

[Damaso Marte]

There's a lengthy analysis somewhere of the pros and cons of exhuming MJK, and the conclusion was that it would not be worth doing because, among other things, it may be impossible to locate and verify her actual remains.

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Hello there,

Wynne Weston Davies, 'prosector', is your main man for this at the moment. Here's a brief thread he started.

https://forum.casebook.org/forum/ripper-discussions/victims/mary-jane-kelly/738050-identity-of-mary-jane-kelly#post738050

It's specifically MJK, but he's done some interesting research and is worth looking into. There's a Rippercast available and something in Ripperologist, but I couldn't tell you which one.

https://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=110

[Fantomas]

I look at a bbc documentary from C. 2000 and the vain (in all senses of the word) "autopsies" of Sickert's paintings performed by Cornwell and this had me thinking. Could exhumation of the canonical five provide forensic answers hitherto unknown? Or would time preclude expertes from discovering anything new?

Would exhumation and forensic analysis of the corpses shed any new light?