Originally posted by lynn cates
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I'm surprised you're so dismissive of the evidence! Seems a matter of closed to me. Well, apart from the tricky problem of the shawls total lack of provenance, meaning we have absolutely no idea when the genetic material was deposited...1866? 1927? 1974? 1888? Or where the shawl was when the DNA was deposited...North-West Iran? Georgia? Bolivia? Whitechapel? Or whether the DNA said to belong to Kosminski and Eddowes respectively was deposited on the shawl at the same time.
Of course, if it could be firmly established that the DNA was definitely Kosmisnki's and Eddowes, and arrived on the shawl simultaneously, that would be even more convincing. Well, apart from the fact that Aaron and Kate might have enjoyed a picnic together, one enchanting afternoon in the summer of 1888, using the shawl to sit on or to place the picnic on! Or perhaps as they lived in the same district their paths may have crossed at some point? No, that's obviously far too implausible...getting carried away again!
Apart from the aforementioned trivial caveats I would say it's a case of case closed!
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