The main reason experts deny that H.H. Holmes and Jack the Ripper are the same person is that they had different motives. While Jack the Ripper typically went after poor women who were sex workers, H.H. Holmes was typically after money. As well, Is H.H. Holmes the Ripper? “Ripperologists” have generated hundreds of theories to try to identify this murderer. However, one theory is currently louder than all the others. Jeff Mudgett, a lawyer and former Commander in the U.