American Ripper

I watched this gripping story and am still disappointed that any results of dredging the river near a factory Holmes owned was not revealed. Amarylis and Jeff visit this spot towards the end of the presentation and agree that it would have been easy and indeed probable that incriminating evidence may have been discarded underwater. They agree it should be dredged and checked but the show just ends there. I am to this day wondering if anything like that was done! Quite frustrating reallly, and not logical that it wouldn't have been followed up on given their 'thorough' investigation'. Hopefully someone will reveal this to those of the watchers who may be also wondering.

OK the main flaw that I feel throws this conspiracy theory out the window is this: We have an American in Chicago, living in a town that was familiar to him with a simple "grid" system infrastructure which would have been easy for him to navigate. However,he jumps on a ship and travels to London to commit several murders that he does under the cover of darkness in an unfamiliar city that is basically a "labyrinth" of confusing streets and gets away every time? I think not! Jack the Ripper was a local to the area and that is how he managed to elude capture - I know its not as exciting but do we want reality or entertainment.

The amount of recap in this series is astounding. Instead of 8 episodes, they could've made it into 5. I bet they said the same phrases a hundred times: what they're investigating, what they hope to find, what their expectations were, etc. It actually got mildly infuriating because it was constant recapping. The actual content was good and interesting, though. You can probably just watch the last 3 episodes to get all the info you need, and avoid literal hours of filler shots and repetition.

Don't forget the fact that this series only has one season, so it left off without answers to several questions they'd already posed. Frustrating.

Jeff Mudgett comes across as someone who only cares about proving he's right. The way it's edited, the leads seem shocked by some of the stuff they learn from 'experts' that's common knowledge of H.H. Holmes & as his grandson who has spent 20 trying to prove H.H. Holmes & Jack The Ripper are the same person he would have know these facts. The leads also take a rumour and state it as facts.

Interesting show, but I don't know why I cringe during the intro when he says,"My Great Great Grandfather". He almost seemed.... proud to attach himself. I'm just a weirdo so hey!