Detective Frank Geyer was tasked with retracing serial killer H. H. Holmes’ steps throughout the Midwest and Canada. He was looking for hard evidence of Holmes’ murders. Many of Holmes’ victims were disposed of in such a way that there was no identifiable corpse.
Holmes’ bizarre movements in 1894 seem to indicate that he was playing a twisted game of cat and mouse with Carrie Pitezel. Carrie was the mother of the three murdered Pitezel children and the wife of Benjamin Pitezel. Benjamin was the associate Holmes set ablaze in the offices on Callowhill Street, Philadelphia. Holmes had the children in his custody, but lied about it. He claimed the children were in London with Minnie Williams.
The children were moved constantly, Carrie never being able to see them or read their letters. On a few occasions, Carrie was unknowingly in the same city as her own children. Holmes seemed to delight in the children’s broken hearts and Carrie’s anxiety over her children’s silence.
Detective Geyer is the one who found the remains of the Pitezel children in two different rental homes. Alice and Nellie were found buried in the basement in Toronto. The partial remains of their little brother Howard was discovered in the chimney flue of a home in Indianapolis.
This series is really testing my knowledge of Roman numerals
