Move over, Ted Bundy — there’s a new-old serial hottie in town.
Recently released AI-generated renderings of Jack the Ripper reveal the infamous 19th-century prostitute killer to be a dashing gentleman with a darkly alluring, wild-eyed energy.
The dangerously dreamy drawings come courtesy of Jeff Leahy, a long-time Ripper enthusiast from Carmarthen, Wales, who produced a mini-series on the murderer and has spent decades studying the lore surrounding one of history’s most infamous villains.
Using Midjourney software, along with information and available photographs of the relatives of prime suspect Aaron Kosminski, Leahy was able to produce a rather astonishing portrait of the man.
“It’s astonishing to finally have an image of him. I was surprised by how striking the picture is,” Leahy told SWNS.
Kosminski was a Polish-born barber working in Whitechapel, the area of London’s East End where the murders took place in the late 1800s.
Kosminski has been named by numerous experts as the Ripper, however nobody has ever been able to prove his guilt.
“There’s never been a picture of him and this is the best we’re ever going to get,” Leahy said.
“It’s very exciting to finally put a face to the world’s most notorious serial killer. I had two pictures of his sister Matilda, one of his uncle and another of a close relative. I had one of his brother-in-law too, and the families were closely related — cousins marrying for generations — so that’s still useful,” he said.
The new portrait bears little resemblance to the only known facial composite ever uncovered, found back in 2022 in a UK police facility archive.
The grandfather of three first found himself gripped by Rippermania at age ten, when a relative took him on a tour of the slasher’s historic haunts.
Jack the Ripper caused a panic in London in 1888 after cutting the throats and mutilating the bodies of a series of sex workers in an impoverished section of the capital.
The world-famous nickname originated in a letter penned by someone claiming responsibility for the killings. Many have been suspected — even royals, artists and authors.
Over the years, Kosminski has emerged as a favorite suspect.
Kosminski was admitted to a mental institution in the early 1890s, shortly after the killer’s heyday.
He died in 1919 at age 53.
