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Has a fresh look at 118-year-old evidence revealed the true face of Jack the Ripper?

THE face of Jack the Ripper, the 19th-century killer whose identity still remains a mystery, has been revealed for the first time.

Using state-of-the-art profiling, investigators have created a vision of what the murderer, who strangled and butchered five London prostitutes, would have looked like - and revealed that police at the time were probably searching for the wrong kind of man.
Read entire article at Scotsman.com