[ SECRET POST #3014 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3014 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Destroyed valuable art... how?

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about art. But she had a piece of "Ripper" evidence destroyed in order to get a DNA hit from it so generalized that it is useless as evidence and served only to "prove" that the person behind it was of Indo-European background. Basically all she did was rule out the possibility of the Ripper, if he even sent the letter in question (most genuine experts say "no"), being American First Nations, East Asian, Oceanic, or Sub-Saharan African. So, really narrowed down the suspects there then.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I wanna hear that story now. Details, OP!

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, spoke too late. Thank you, other anon!

[(Anonymous)]

The argument in the book was that an artist called Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper. So in an attempt to find some of Sickert's fingerprints/DNA, she got her hands on one of his paintings and ripped it apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QFSeMLccOY (starting at 4:42).

[(Anonymous)]

She purchased some paintings by Walter Sickert (her suspect for Jack the Ripper), which were quite valuable in their own right, and then took them apart to test for fingerprints and DNA.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2001/dec/08/art.artsfeatures

It was pretty dumb, tbh. It's been over 125 years, everything that could possibly be related to the murders or Jack the Ripper has not been preserved properly and has been handled by countless people. The DNA contamination has probably rendered any evidence worthless, so there isn't much point in destroying anything just to test for DNA.

[(Anonymous)]

It's the CSI effect: nobody believes anything now unless they have DNA evidence and apparently that evidence is everywhere and easy to test!

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, I know, right? In that video someone else linked to, they actually dusted the frame of one of the paintings for fingerprints. When you think of how many people may have handled that over the decades, it's like jesus, why bother?

[diet_poison]

That's pretty sad, tbh. :/