H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XXIV
For our final (!) post about H.H. Holmes in this twenty-four part series (!), we return to Frank Geyer. Remember our tenacious Philadelphia [...]
H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XXIII
What type of burial does a serial killer request in the late 1890s? Well, if you are H.H. Holmes/Herman Mudgett, you request to [...]
H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XXI
H.H. Holmes, the murderer/insurance fraudster/bigamist at the center of our story, sold not only his memoir from his prison cell in 1895, he [...]
H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XX
In 1895, serial killer H.H. Holmes (aka Herman Mudgett) is sitting in Moyamensing prison on charges of insurance fraud while a thorough investigation [...]
H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XVIII
A name from the H.H. Holmes serial killing saga that you might not know: Detective Frank Geyer. It is Geyer’s tireless work that [...]
H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XIII
Image: A life insurance policy dating to 1893 – it is unrelated to serial killer H H Holmes himself, but gives us an [...]
H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part XI
After killing Minnie and her sister Nannie Williams in the Chicagoland area in 1893/94, H. H. Holmes quickly moved to claim his ill-gotten [...]
H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part X
Image: 705 N Marsalis Street, the (Charles) Betterton house, has been standing since 1888. It is in this area of the DFW metroplex [...]
H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part IX
Image: a drawing of a quick lime grave from the basement of the ‘Murder Castle’, belonging to H.H. Holmes, aka Herman Mudgett. He [...]
H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VII GalleryH.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VII
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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VII
Famous Serial Killer with Links to Dallas Herman Mudgett, aka H.H. Holmes, had been killing women in his ‘murder’ hotel in the shadows [...]