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Was H. H. Holmes really Jack the Ripper?

It’s one of true crime’s most persistent myths. This week on Things I Want To Know, we break it apart using motive, method, timeline, and behavioral profiling.

Andrea takes Whitechapel and builds the Ripper’s profile. Paul steps into Chicago and dissects Holmes. Same era. Completely different predators.

Holmes built traps. Private rooms. Insurance scams. Control and profit at the center of every decision.

The Ripper attacked in public. Fast escalation. From Polly Nichols to Mary Jane Kelly, the violence intensifies in a way that reads like compulsion, not commerce.

We test the royal rumors, the traveling American theory, and the fantasy of one man committing both crime sprees across an ocean.

By the end, the myth looks dramatic.

The evidence does not.

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