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That research later continued at Harvard. Cornwell gave the center a forensic device, called a video spectral comparator, that allows scholars to compare handwriting and paper watermarks. She found that the paper of three letters written by Sickerts has the same watermarks and measurements as paper Jack the Ripper used for some of his letters. She said that only 24 sheets of this type of paper exist...
...added that while the handwriting of Jack the Ripper is disguised and is different from Sickert’s handwriting, the composition of certain characters in the two letters seems remarkably similar...
Cornwell first became interested in this mystery in 2001 when she had a conversation with a Scotland Yard investigator in London about Jack the Ripper. As she researched Sickert’s work, she became more and more disturbed by his live subjects’ “dead” appearance and his other paintings of actual murder scenes...
Cornwell added that Sickert was “in the right place at the right time for these murders to have occurred,” and that he had a strange fascination with Jack the Ripper. At one point, he created a painting in which the murderer appeared in front of a backdrop of Sickert’s own bedroom...
Cornwell said that such “circumstantial” evidence, while not substantial enough to prove that Jack the Ripper and the artist are one and the same, is important when added to scientific evidence...