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Author : Frank Geyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1954895038
Author : Frank Geyer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546759638
Written by the man who brought H. H. Holmes to justice, this book follows the criminal case as it unfolded in the 1890s, using detective notes, court documents, and newspaper articles. "It is not possible to find in the annals of criminal jurisprudence, a more deliberate and cold blooded villain than the central figure in this story, nor would the most careful research among the records of the prominent murder trials that have absorbed public attention during the past century, disclose the careful planning that made possible the apprehension of Holmes, the prosecution to an almost miraculous ending of the search for the missing children, or the equal of the forensic skill and cunning that wove the close web in which this man of many names and many murders was entangled." So wrote Frank P. Geyer, the man who built the murder case against the infamous serial killer H. H. Holmes. In this updated adaptation of his police procedural true crime account, he narrates his detective notes, reprints transcripts of Holmes's interviews with the police, includes court documents and letters from Holmes, the Pitezel children, and the legal system that brought justice to the case. Modern updates to the book include an expanded chronology, eyewitness newspaper accounts of Holmes's execution, and a bizarre twist, the 2017 court decision to allow descendants of the murderer to exhume his body. Students of the law, police detective work, serial killers, and the dark side of the human mind will find much to compel them in this highly illustrated true crime story.
Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781510740853
America's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, now updated with a new afterword discussing Holmes' exhumation on American Ripper. H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America’s great supervillains. It reveals not only the true story but how the legend evolved, taking advantage of hundreds of primary sources that have never been examined before, including legal documents, letters, articles, and records that have been buried in archives for more than a century. Though Holmes has become just as famous now as he was in 1895, a deep analysis of contemporary materials makes very clear how much of the story as we know came from reporters who were nowhere near the action, a dangerously unqualified new police chief, and, not least, lies invented by Holmes himself. Selzer has unearthed tons of stunning new data about Holmes, weaving together turn-of-the-century America, the killer’s background, and the wild cast of characters who circulated in and about the famous “castle” building. This book will be the first truly accurate account of what really happened in Holmes’s castle of horror, and now includes an afterword detailing the author's participation in Holmes' exhumation on the TV series, American Ripper. Exhaustively researched and painstakingly brought to life, H. H. Holmes will be an invaluable companion to the upcoming Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio movie about Holmes’s murder spree based on Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.
Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Murder
ISBN : 9780743490351
'This is must reading for crime buffs. DEPRAVED demonstrates that sadistic psychopaths are not a modern day phenomena... gruesome, awesome, compelling reporting.' ANNE RULE. Here is the macabre story of H.H. Holmes, architect of the infamous 'Castle of Horror', whose labyrinth of trapdoors, stairways to nowhere, bedchambers fitted with peepholes and asphyxiating gas pipes, greased body chutes, and a cellar equipped with acid vats, a crematorium, and dissecting table, became an unspeakable domain of torture and murder. With stark, ghastly detail, DEPRAVED takes you into the mind of this evil genius - who alternatively posed as doctor, druggist, and inventor to snare his prey in 19th Century Chicago - and reveals a mesmerizing tale of true detection before the age of technological wizardry.
Author : Jeffrey Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798640564785
You Are About To Discover The Full Story Of One Of The First And Most Notorious Serial Killers In History, Dr. H.H Holmes, From His Early Days, When He Started His First Murders, His Infamous Murder Castle, His Victims And Everything In Between That Will Thrill And Creep You In The Same Measure! A highly intelligent child is bullied, and among other outlandish things, is forced to observe and hug a skeleton during his school years. But he manages to complete medicine and these experiences change his perception of fear, death... everything! In 1885, he is employed in a pharmacy in Chicago and when the owner of the business dies, he manages to convince his widow to let him control the business fully. Before long, the widow goes missing.... Equipped with a thriving pharmacy, he unscrupulously acquires property across the street, which he redesigns into an elaborate 3-story hotel. This would later come to be known as the "murder castle". It was complete with death traps, blocked stairways, wall-fitted gas jets, trapdoors and hidden panels in closets leading to the cellar of death via greasy shafts and a basement of horror- just to mention the least. As it were, this would become the last resting place of many of Holmes' murder victims... But who exactly was Holmes? Did he have any parents? How was he brought up? How many people did he kill, and why is he referred to as America's first most notorious serial killer? What happened in the murder castle? What did he have to say about his fraudulent, sadistic and murderous tendencies before his death? Did he really escape from the hangman? If you've been having questions about the "Jack, the ripper" then this is the last place you'll ever look. This book contains accurate, real-life accounts of Dr. Holmes, right from his birth to the time the noose was placed around his neck in 1896. In a thrilling story that will leave you chilled, this book brings to you the details about how and why Dr. Holmes turned out to be the cold killer he was, how he executed his murders and many other details that will give you a good understanding of the murderous doctor. Here are some of the themes this book covers: How Holmes was brought up; the story of his early years How Herman Webster Mudgett became Dr. H.H Holmes How the murder castle came to be How Dr. Holmes executed his murder victims How Dr. Holmes planned and started the recreation of the murder castle The failed attempt to steal $10,000 How Dr. Holmes was arrested How the dark era of Dr. Holmes ended The elaborate killing methods of Dr. Holmes The likelihood that H.H Holmes wasn't really the "Jack the Ripper" ...And so much more! As you'll soon discover, many of Dr. Holmes' stories you've probably been hearing are distorted, and most likely nothing compared to what really happened. Question is, Are you ready for the truth? The horror? Are you ready to explore the insight into the instinct and brutal methods of a completely twisted mind of an intelligent man? Scroll up and click Buy Now with 1-Click or Buy Now to get started!
Author : JD Crighton,Herman Webster Mudgett, M.D.
Publisher : Aerobear Classics
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781946100009
Eighty-seven (87) restored and sourced, rare historical illustrations and photographs. A fascinating look into the mind of one of America's first serial killers. Born as Herman Webster Mudgett, H. H. Holmes was a horrific killer featured in Erik Larson's popular book, The Devil in the White City. Holmes built a three story 'Murder Castle' in Chicago in the late 1800s with death on his mind. A doctor by trade, Holmes lured unsuspecting victims into secret rooms, vaults and gas chambers and made use of a dissection table in his basement. He preyed on travelers that came to Chicago for the World Columbian Exposition in 1893 by advertising rooms for rent and offering employment opportunities. No doubt about it, Holmes earned despicable nicknames such as Arch Fiend, Butcher, Modern Bluebeard, Swindler, and Moral Degenerate. Holmes was a monster in disguise as a doctor, a perfect ruse to lure his victims. After all, who would not trust a doctor? Learn what Holmes personality and thought process was like, straight from the mind of a killer. This three-part book includes Holmes' memoir and his confession of twenty-seven murders. It also has details about his death, unusual burial, and an odd story Holmes told about his reincarnation. Notes, illustration credits, and bibliography are included.
Author : H H Holmes
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798598374290
Herman Webster Mudgett was his true name. He preferred to be known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes and he confessed to 27 murders, but only a few could be proven. Whatever the true number, Holmes, was a diabolical and bizarre person. Folklore pegs his murders at 200, but by any standard that number cannot be verified. No one doubts Holmes killed. However, he was not just known as a murderer; he was also known as a con man, swindler, and bigamist. As with nearly all legendary characters, his notoriety has grown through the years. Whether he killed a few or 200, his story remains one of the most interesting in the annals of crime. What you are about to read, are the words of H.H. Holmes written while awaiting trial in prison. His story is that of pathological killer. Why he felt it was necessary to write his account, will never be known. However, as a former detective, I saw that some murderers with a high level of intelligence, had a deep-seated need to tell their story. I believe some thought they would convince the detective of their innocence or provide a "valid" reason for their crimes. You will find the following H. H. Holmes essay fascinating while providing a unique and rare window into a serial killer's mind. Without question, you will find his words fascinating and disturbing.I have not edited his essay beyond adding a few comma's and correcting a few spelling errors.Prepare yourself for a frightening journey into the mind of a serial killer. NY Times Bestselling Author and former Detective Mike Rothmiller
Author : Rebecca Frost
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476637402
Decades before the term "serial killer" was coined, H.H. Holmes murdered dozens of people in his now-infamous Chicago "Murder Castle." In his autobiography, Holmes struggled to define himself in the language of the late nineteenth century. As the "first"--or, as he labeled himself, "The Greatest Criminal of the Age"--he had no one to compare himself to, and no ready-made biographical structure to follow. Holmes was thus nearly able to invent himself from scratch. This book minutely inspects how Holmes represented himself in his writings and confessions. Although the legitimacy of Holmes' accounts have been called into question, his biography mirrors the narrative structure of the true crime genre that emerged decades after his death.
Author : Peter Vronsky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780698176140
From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes. Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters"--killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos. In Sons of Cain--a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime--investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers--Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called the definitive history of serial murder--he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers: thrill killers who engage in murder, rape, torture, cannibalism and necrophilia, as opposed to for-profit serial killers, including hit men, or "political" serial killers, like terrorists or genocidal murderers. These sexual serial killers differ from all other serial killers in their motives and their foundations. They are uniquely human and--as popular culture has demonstrated--uniquely fascinating.
Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781510713451
From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries. To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first “automobile murderer,” and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery. The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fiction—true crime from urban legend. Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the “crime” and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.
Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738737171
Popularized in the bestselling book The Devil in the White City, H. H. Holmes has gone down in history as America’s first—and possibly most prolific—serial killer. A master swindler who changed names about as often as most people change coats, Holmes built a three-story building down the street from the World’s Fair site in Chicago in the early 1890s. Join Chicago paranormal authority Adam Selzer as he separates the truth behind the myth. Did H. H. Holmes really kill 200 people? How did he do it? And why? How did he keep his three wives from finding out about each other? And how did he kill people in such a crowded building without anyone noticing? This e-book includes an excerpt from Adam Selzer's popular book Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps.
Author : H. Holmes,Herman Mudgett
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1729174949
H.H. Holmes did what few serial killers ever do. He published a series of autobiographical documents that revealed his sociopathic tendencies--and lied about his crimes. The infamous killer of the Chicago World's Fair published a memoir and a confession, both of which conceal more than they reveal of the truth. Then he gave a speech at his hanging that recanted everything. This series of documents, edited and explained by Matt Lake, author of Weird Pennsylvania, show the dark but charming side of a man who lured somewhere between 24 and 200 men, women, and children to their deaths.
Author : Robert E. Hanlon,Thomas V Odle
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780809332632
On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. However, Illinois governor George Ryan’s moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle’s sentence to natural life. The commutation of his death sentence was an epiphany for Odle. Prior to the commutation of his death sentence, Odle lived in denial, repressing any feelings about his family and his horrible crime. Following the commutation and the removal of the weight of eventual execution associated with his death sentence, he was confronted with an unfamiliar reality. A future. As a result, he realized that he needed to understand why he murdered his family. He reached out to Dr. Robert Hanlon, a neuropsychologist who had examined him in the past. Dr. Hanlon engaged Odle in a therapeutic process of introspection and self-reflection, which became the basis of their collaboration on this book. Hanlon tells a gripping story of Odle’s life as an abused child, the life experiences that formed his personality, and his tragic homicidal escalation to mass murder, seamlessly weaving into the narrative Odle’s unadorned reflections of his childhood, finding a new family on death row, and his belief in the powers of redemption. As our nation attempts to understand the continual mass murders occurring in the U.S., Survived by One sheds some light on the psychological aspects of why and how such acts of extreme carnage may occur. However, Survived by One offers a never-been-told perspective from the mass murderer himself, as he searches for the answers concurrently being asked by the nation and the world.
Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983457566
H. H. Holmes H. H. Holmes' story has become one of legend. Holmes committed his crimes at a time in history where the idea of murdering on a mass scale was just being introduced to the world through the actions of Jack the Ripper. Unlike Jack the Ripper though, Holmes' motives were clear; he killed out of greed, convenience, and curiosity. Inside you will read about... - Herman Webster Mudgett, the Medical Student - Settling in Chicago - Murders in the Mansion - The World's Deadliest Fair - Suicide or Murder - America's First Serial Killer And much more! Fueled by an intense desire for money, Holmes sought the fastest way to make money with the least amount of effort possible. Throughout his life he would commit devastating murders for money, properly earning him the title of America's first serial killer.
Author : John Borowski
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1492842052
TORTURE CHAMBERS - VATS OF ACID - SECRET PASSAGEWAYS At the height of his criminal career, the infamous Dr. H.H. Holmes designed his castle of horrors in Chicago, where he rented rooms to unsuspecting victims visiting the 1893 World's Fair. Further benefiting from his victims, Holmes sold their skeletons to local medical schools. The Strange Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes contains three fully illustrated, unabridged primary source books, plus Holmes' published confession as originally documented shortly before his execution. For the first time in over a century, these materials are again available - and all in one book. HOLMES' OWN STORY by Herman W. Mudgett - 1895 In this autobiography, Holmes recounts his childhood years, and life's trials and tribulations. To a "fair-minded public," Holmes pleads his innocence by spinning uncanny explanations for every allegation and shred of evidence that otherwise incriminated him. THE HOLMES-PITEZEL CASE by Detective Frank Geyer - 1896 This, the first book written on a serial killer, is a full-length account of American homicide detective, Frank Geyer, retracing the steps of criminal mastermind, H.H. Holmes. Included are rare court transcripts, expert witness testimony, and in-depth criminal and legal detection methods utilized in the trial against Holmes. THE HOLMES CASTLE by Robert Corbitt - 1895 Robert Corbitt entered the Holmes "castle" when the investigation into the horrors first began. Learn what made Corbitt believe that Holmes was innocent. THE CONFESSION OF H.H. HOLMES - 1896 Holmes gives the media what they want...a confession. He recounts 27 murders in gruesome detail, stating that he is growing to resemble the devil. "Anyone who has an interest in true crime or is studying criminology, law or forensics must own this book which focuses on a groundbreaking case." - John Borowski
