Over the century-plus since the Jack the Ripper murders, untold words have been devoted to the subject in print, to say nothing of the pixels produced by the internet community devoted to solving the mystery. Indeed, from time to time, a book will claim to have identified the killer, but officially, however, the crimes remain unsolved, according to Britannica.
These murders, and the Austin murders that preceded them, are likely to never be solved. That’s because these crimes were committed over a century ago; all witnesses are in their graves, as is the perpetrator. If any DNA evidence was left, police in neither Austin nor London would have known how to collect and preserve it, and over the course of nearly 140 years, it’s almost certainly gone forever.
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And though the prospect of a mysterious foreigner possibly tying the two together seems like a potential avenue for exploration, keep in mind that in the London case, his presence is the result of longstanding hearsay. Hearsay is not evidence, and what’s more, the alleged witness could have misheard, had his memories polluted by prejudice, or he could have made the whole thing up. The presence of the Malay cook in both Austin and London may be a coincidence, or it may not have happened at all.
