HH Holmes a Ripper suspect?

[Howard Brown]

Mark:
Those fellers up in Berks County are sort of hard to get things across to.
I thought he lived down the road ( 15 miles) from me...but he's from Reading, not Pottstown.
I'm surprised at how quickly he convinced himself of his deductions.

Did you have any difficulty in viewing the Channel 69 video ?

[m_w_r]

Hi How,

None whatsoever.

Regards,

Mark

[Howard Brown]

Mark:

Thanks for letting me know....sometimes these international programs aren't visible to everyone.

[Paul Kearney A.K.A. NEMO]

To tell the truth, the writing looks very similar to me from what I've seen, though as we all know, the letter writer may not be JtR

However, if it is proven that HH Holmes was writing these in London, then I would certainly consider him as a JtR candidate, though his cowardly other murderers seem a world apart from the Ripper MO in my opinion

[admin tim]

'ere we goes again....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241334/Was-Chicago-doctor-serial-killer-Londons-Jack-Ripper-Descendant-American-murderer-investigates-links-notorious-criminals.html

Jeff Mudgett enlisted handwriting experts to compare the handwriting of H.H. Holmes and Jack the Ripper. The experts say they likely came from the same hand.

Oh, my soul.

[Howard Brown]

Timmers:
If you think this article is worth a couple of eyerolls...you should read the article(s) the fella up in my neck of the woods wrote, charging Holmes as being the Servant Girl Annihilator, The Ripper, and the culprit in the Lizzie Borden affair.

[admin tim]

And I really doubt that H.H. Holmes would have bothered writing any of the Ripper letters either.

The way handwriting was taught in the Victorian Era, it's no wonder that one specimen from that period resembles another. Also kind of a long jump from a murder castle to the backyard of a rooming house in a slum, methinks.

[Howard Brown]

The disturbing thing, Tim, is none of the three persons who have written works on Holmes-as-Ripper can even demonstrate that the fiend was in London at the time...

[Howard Brown]

The PMG compares Deeming to Holmes

Pall Mall Gazette
July 30, 1895
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[Chris G.]

The disturbing thing, Tim, is none of the three persons who have written works on Holmes-as-Ripper can even demonstrate that the fiend was in London at the time...

I make mention of H H Holmes in my editorial on the number of JtR suspects in Rip 129 now in press. And of course I make that very point.

[Howard Brown]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/03/hh-holmes-was-jack-the-ripper_n_2231896.html

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[SirRobertAnderson]

The disturbing thing, Tim, is none of the three persons who have written works on Holmes-as-Ripper can even demonstrate that the fiend was in London at the time...

Who are the three How? I've seen Mudgett and Potts. Who is the third?

Are you counting these?

http://www.chicagounbelievable.com/p/books.html

[Howard Brown]

That thar' dude makes three, Bob.

[Big Jon]

I've been debating Holmes resemblance to the Freddie Mercury photofit on Facebook with Mr Potts. Looking at the world through suspect-tinted glasses.

[Paul Kearney A.K.A. NEMO]

Hi Jon

Could you please ask Mr Potts why the pdf's about his theory have been pulled off the web?

Are the pdfs available elsewhere?

(23210949.pdf )