Image: A life insurance policy dating to 1893 – it is unrelated to serial killer H H Holmes himself, but gives us an idea of the documentation he was acquiring in order to bilk his friends and associates out of their estates after he had killed them.
Image with history: https://news.nsre.com/a-snapshot-in-time-1893-phoenix-life-insurance-policy-surfaces-in-texas/
Getting out of the St. Louis city jail in 1894, H.H. Holmes ultimately screwed his cellmate out of his cut of their planned life insurance scam money. The former cellmate then started singing like a canary to the local authorities. Opening a new investigation in to life insurance scams of Holmes, it was quickly discovered that several people in his life appeared to be missing, all having previously, and conveniently, named Holmes the beneficiary of their life insurance policy. The vast majority of these people were adult women who believed themselves engaged or married to Holmes.
Although Holmes was not above killing children – three of which had bodies that were found and are part of his 9 confirmed murders. We will look at the complicated story of the Pitezel children in our next post.
