How Jack the Ripper slashed throats, ripped out entrails and wielded a knife with surgical precision... as descendants of his victims back inquest after DNA breakthrough

It was a mystery that endured for more than 130 years, until recently. Researcher Mark Edwards believes he has definitively identified Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski as being Jack the Ripper Mary Ann Nichols The first murder definitively attributed to the Ripper was that of Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols. Bucks Row, now Durward Street, East London, where the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found lying across the gutter The edition of the Illustrated Police News on September 8, 1888, depicting the inquest into Nichols' murder Annie Chapman Just a week after Nichols was murdered, the Ripper turned his attentions to 47-year-old Annie Chapman. Contemporaneous police drawing of the body of Catherine Eddowes Police discovering the body of one of Jack the Ripper's victims, probably Catherine Eddowes Another edition of the Illustrated Police News after 'two more Whitechapel horrors' Mary Jane Kelly The most terrible of the Ripper murders was the last. Mary Jane Kelly had been horrifically mutilated, with her body parts - including her sexual organs - distributed around her room The 25-year-old prostitute was discovered in the room she rented at 13 Miller's Court in Spitalfields on November 9, 1888 The fact her killing took place away from prying eyes allowed the Ripper to do exactly as he wished with her body.