straycat-67007

I watched the first episode of this, and had hoped that they would at least start to address likely the MAIN issue in trying to connect HH Holmes with Jack the Ripper. HH Holmes had a daughter, Lucy Theodate Holmes, born on July 4, 1889 to his second "wife", Myrta Belknap, in Englewood, Ill. The last Ripper murder, Mary Kelly, occurred on November 7, 1888. Therefore, unless his daughter was born very premature (of which there is no indication), or she was not actually his daughter (which would have to be proved), she was conceived around the beginning of October 1888. For that to occur, either Myrta accompanied him on his supposed killing spree trip to London, or Holmes was nowhere near London... but instead was in Chicago.

Until they address this rather large elephant in the room, all the rest of their "investigation" is meaningless...