Most Terrifying Things About America’s First Serial Killer

By The Same Hand

The aforementioned “Dear Boss” letter, said to have been written by Jack the Ripper, was received by the Central News Agency of London and was subsequently forwarded to Scotland Yard on September 29, 1888. The letter provided a detailed warning of the killer’s plans to cut off his victim’s ears and the next day.

Later, the body of a woman was found with one severed ear lobe. Jeff Mudgett, a descendant of H. H. Holmes, sent samples of Holmes’s handwriting from the diaries to be computer analyzed and compared to the “Dear Boss” letter. The results proved that there was a near 98% chance that the handwriting from both documents are one in the same. This evidence seemed to definitively suggest that Holmes was possibly Jack the Ripper. If this is true H. H. Holmes is even more of a legendary serial killer than what he is already believed to be, truly a terrifying human being.