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 [...]
H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VI
Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Who is this Herman Mudgett/H.H. Holmes character? How is he luring young women all the way [...]
H. H. Holmes and Dallas, Part V
Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Minnie Williams, Dallas-area heiress, travels to Chicago during the early months of 1893. She is [...]
H.H. Holmes and Dallas, part II
Devil in the White City has been a pet project of Leonardo DiCaprio for a while now. I will let you judge if [...]
The Opening of the Oriental Hotel
Thomas Field’s dream, the Oriental Hotel, opened October 9th, 1893. The night before opening day, every single room in the building, from cellar [...]
Adolphus Busch, Honorary Dallasite: the Investor Chronicles
Adolphus Busch, Honorary Dallasite: the Investor Chronicles So, what did Adolphus do with all of his bags of money made from his un-skunked, [...]
Honorary Dallasite – the Innovator
Adolphus Busch, Honorary Dallasite So, life happened and I didn’t post for a while. But you know what makes life better? BEER. Do [...]
Real Beer, Honorary Dallasite, Part IV
In our story of Adolphus Busch, honorary Dallasite, we are up to the outbreak of the Civil War. Eberhard Anheuser and his new-ish [...]