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...past half-decade, Cornwell has been investigating the true identity of Jack the Ripper, the legendary criminal who gruesomely killed five prostitutes in Whitechapel, England in 1888. She has pledged 82 works by Impressionist artist Walter Sickert, whom she claims was the real “Jack the Ripper,” to Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum...
...publication of her 2002 book “Portrait of a Killer,” which identified Sickert as the Whitechapel murderer. She traveled to London with Fogg scientists, who assisted the author as she compared Sickert’s correspondence to letters allegedly written by Jack the Ripper...
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...
Crime writer and forensics expert Patricia Cornwell claims that she has found Jack the Ripper—and now she’s bringing him to the Fogg. For the past half-decade, Cornwell has been investigating the true identity of Jack the Ripper, the legendary criminal who gruesomely killed five prostitutes in Whitechapel, England in 1888. She has pledged 82 works by Impressionist artist Walter Sickert, whom she claims was the real “Jack the Ripper,” to Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. The 82 works include 24 paintings, 36 prints...