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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America: The Murders of H.H. Holmes

The Murders of HH Holmes

The Holmes-Pitezel Case: A History of the Greatest Crime of the Century and of the Search for the Missing Pitezel Children

A Map of Locations Involved in the Holmes Murders, from Chicago Tribune

From Chicago Tribune

HH Holmes

HH Holmes

Holmes' Murder Castle

From August 18, 1895 Chicago Tribune "Modern Bluebeard: H.H. Holmes' Castles (sic) Reveals His True Character"

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The site of the 'Death Castle' today

Holmes' Capture

Detective Frank Geyer

Detective Frank Geyer

Marion Hedgepeth, Holmes' cell mate

Articles from the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle

From the July 16 1895 Middletown Daily Argus

 

From the July 24 Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle

From the July 26 1895 Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle

From the July 29 1895 Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle

Discovery of the Vault in HH Holmes Mansion from  the July 30 1895 Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle

Article on the execution of HH Holmes from the May 8 1896 Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle

From the May 8, 1896 New York Times

The Victims of HH Holmes

Julia and Pearl Conner

Emeline Cigrand

Minnie Williams

Anna Williams

Benjamin Pitezel, Alice Pitezel, Nellie Pitezel, and Howard Pitezel.