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 is going to convict Holmes and get him off the streets for good. Geyer was a 20 year veteran of the Philadelphia police force when he was assigned to the H. H. Holmes case.
With the barest of information from Holmes himself (sitting in a jail cell in Moyamensing prison in Philadelphia), Geyer sets out in June of 1895 to find evidence of Holmes’ murders. These murders covered huge swaths of land, from Ohio to Indiana to Toronto, Canada. Geyer traveled by train in the sweltering heat and was often left to walk from boarding house to hotel to rental home in each city, on the off chance that someone might remember Holmes and his movements. To complicate matters, Holmes inevitably used an alias and often rented several rooms across town simultaneously. Tracking him was hard, thankless work and a dash of luck here and there.
What hard evidence does Geyer find? Stay tuned. Or book a tour with us and I will just tell you. ha.
