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To: dznutz

Anyone seeing our posts should know that this is a fascinating story, not a simple serial killer story but history of the second half of the 1800s, he was a doctor, a complicated man, became wealthy and built his own special killing hotel close to the World’s Fair which helped him supply his building of horrors with tourist women and helped cover his tracks.

My copy is laying around somewhere so I am going off memory, if you want to correct me or add something, please do.

I looked it up on wiki. “”In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World’s Fair, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which four were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 200.[3] He took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, which was less than two miles away, in his “World’s Fair” hotel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes


60 posted on 07/28/2012 8:49:11 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12
Here is a link to a documentary about Holmes on hulu tv. I live on the south side of Chicago and worked in the neighborhood where his murder castle was located at 63rd and Stewart Ave. There is a postal building there now. Occasionally near Halloween, the media will do a story on how people say the postal building is haunted. link
66 posted on 07/29/2012 2:55:44 PM PDT by dznutz
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