Suspect
Aaron Kosminski
- Born
- 11 September 1865
- Died
- 24 March 1919, aged about 54
- Record
- Wikidata Q2820067 · Wikipedia
Suspect in The Whitechapel Murders
Polish-born barber in Whitechapel, later confined to asylums; named by Macnaghten and favoured by Anderson and Swanson. Never charged.
1888 · Whitechapel and Spitalfields, London · Unsolved
Five women killed in ten weeks in London's East End in 1888, a name invented in a letter, and a killer the police never identified. Read the case.
Dated events
Sir Melville Macnaghten writes the memorandum naming Druitt, Kosminski and Michael Ostrog.