Short0:33Mercy Road offramp, Interstate 15, San Diego County, California · 1986Before you continue
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H.H. Holmes' Murder Castle was mostly made up. The real case is worse
SOLVED63rd Street and Wallace Avenue, Englewood, Chicago, Illinois (site of Holmes's building); murder trial held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania0:33
You've heard of the Murder Castle. Most of it was invented by newspapers. In 1894 Holmes killed his associate Benjamin Pitezel for the life insurance, then took custody of three of Pitezel's children, Alice, Nellie and Howard. They never came home. Detective Frank Geyer followed the trail city to city and found the girls in Toronto and the boy in Indianapolis. Send this to someone from Chicago. Narrated with an AI voice. Every fact is sourced on Casepin.
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