Most Terrifying Things About America’s First Serial Killer

It Couldn’t Have Been One Person

Keep in mind that no one really ever saw Jack the Ripper, so it’s still hard to say that that is what he looks like. On the other hand, Holmes’s great-great-grandson Jeff Mudgett argues that Holmes didn’t commit the London murders himself, rather that he had sent his assistant (probably Buckley) to commit the murders for him.

Even though that would technically make Buckley the real murderer, it was still Holmes who orchestrated the entire thing! Kind of like a Charles Manson kind of situation. Add to the fact that he committed all those murders across the pond, it wouldn’t be too far off to assume that Holmes was responsible for what went down at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Perhaps, one day more evidence will be uncovered that could definitely say once and for all that H.H. Holmes was involved in the Jack the Ripper murders. Particularly because it seems as though Holmes was relatively interested in keeping writing about his exploits, perhaps more information exists somewhere.