Chief Inspector, Donald Swanson

Chief Swanson identified Aaron Kosminski, a Polish-Jewish hairdresser living in Whitechapel, East London, as Jack the Ripper. Swanson believes he killed others.

Kosminski's Killing Ground

The districts of Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Aldgate, and the City of London proper, were Kosminski's killing grounds.

How He Killed

Kosminski first strangled them, then cut their throats, after which the cadaver was cut at the abdominal region, organs were removed, and sometimes he performed genital mutilation.

He ate some of the women's organs.

Who Was Aaron Kosminski?

Kosminski was born in 1864 to a Russian Jewess, Golda Abrahams. This was a very unstable period for Russia. There were 'problems' with the Jews, and Czar Nicholas 1 had to create the Pale of the Settlement to contain the problem. In the 1870's, the Czar eased restrictions and soon Jewish merchants, doctors, and lawyers flooded the cities. In 1881, Czar Alexander II was killed by Jewish-sponsored revolutionaries.

In retaliation for this terrorism, many members of the Russian populace started exercising pogroms, breaking into Jew's houses and shops, looting and burning property, beating, raping, and frequently killing the inhabitants. Kosminski grew up in this environment.

Kominski's Childhood

There was no father in his childhood. He was raised by the mother and his two sisters. He saw the sisters as domineering mother figures. Aaron shared a bed with one or both of his sisters while he was living in the Pale, and began to develop sexual fantasies involving his sisters. He witnessed his sisters' menstrual bleeding, and the fascination began.. Betsy would have been 12 years old in 1869, and Aaron was only 4 or 5 - and as a result of this became obsessed with the female sexual organs, imagining blood or violence to be associated with sexuality.

Kominski Starts Hating Women

At 16, during the Russian pogroms, he witnessed the rape of members of his family, and he enjoyed it. His sisters often ridiculed his compulsive masturbation, which in his mind signified their rejection of his sexual fantasies, and their rape was justice.

 

Russia Flushes It Sewers

Kominski immigrates and is now a Whitechapel hairdresser.

Murders Resembled Blood Libel

Many still think that Kosminski was acting out a form of Blood Libel. The long lower abdominal cut, strangulation, throat slitting, was the age old form Jews used for centuries in their horrid ceremonies.

 

The Witnesses

Israel Schwartz saw Jack the Ripper, but when he viewed Kosminski, he refused to testify against him. He did not want the hanging of a fellow Jew on his conscience.

London's Jewish Community Wanted Silence

This occurred during the period where Russia flushed their sewers and over 200,000 Jewish immigrants landed in Europe, and especially London. This was probably the most "anti-Semitic" period in London's history.

The Police Locked Him In Asylums

Kosminski was removed from society in 1890, and placed in the Mile End asylum. And then to Colney Hatch and Leaversden where under the care of his Jewish doctors, they see to it that Kosminski was drugged to the point he was brain-dead. He died in 1919.