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Best-selling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell thinks she may have uncovered Jack the Ripper’s DNA and says it could match a British artist who liked to paint morbid scenes of violence against women. In a book excerpt published in November’s Vanity Fair, Cornwell names artist Walter Sickert. His DNA was gathered from stamps he licked.