BCM partner Douglas Maloney Successfully Petitions Orphan’s Court to Exhume His Body to Find Out!
Story to Air on The History Channel July 11, 2017
Douglas C. Maloney’s work to get the 121 year-buried body of America’s first serial killer exhumed for DNA testing to see if he is also Jack the Ripper-- will be examined in the soon-to- air History Channel’s July 11, 2017 eight-part series AMERICAN RIPPER.
Herman Mudgett, alias H.H. Holmes, was America’s first serial killer rumored, to have claimed as many as 200 lives in the late 19th century. Simultaneously, an unidentified murderer known as Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the streets of London.
In HISTORY’s new eight-part limited series “American Ripper,”Holmes’great-great-grandson Jeff Mudgett will seek to prove an astonishing, controversial theory that H. H. Holmes and Britain’s notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper, are the same man. To prove this claim, Mudgett hired Begley Carlin &Mandio attorney Doug Maloney to secure court-approved permission to exhume the body of H. H. Holmes for DNA testing to determine whether he pulled off the ultimate con, escaping his own execution to lead a second secret life.
Doug successfully petitioned the Orphan’s Court of Delaware County to get approval to excavate Holmes’ gravesite and exhume whatever body was buried there. Holmes was purported to have been executed in Philadelphia in 1896, but there were persistent, well-publicized rumors at the time that he had cheated the gallows and was not buried in his gravesite. There were many unusual facts surrounding his supposed execution and burial, such that Doug was able to persuade the court to allow the excavation of the gravesite, 121 years after the burial.
