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Real Identity of Jack the Ripper and the Ghosts that left behind · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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Speaker 1: There are stories everywhere you go, some more horrifying than others.
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Speaker 3: and and then time let's get on with today's story.
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Speaker 3: So let's sit back and relax. Turn off all your lights,
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Speaker 3: lights everybody, as we begin tonight's story. Tonight's story. You know,
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Speaker 3: I've been I've been trying to do this story for
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Speaker 3: a very long time since basically since our first season.
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Speaker 3: You know, our first season we did episode called the
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Speaker 3: Jack the Ripper and the the Murderers at White Uh
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Speaker 3: at White Castle, if you guys wanna listen to season one,
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Speaker 3: we talked about him and we are going to sort
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Speaker 3: of tie in to the legend and we are sort
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Speaker 3: of going to reveal who a person behind Jack the
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Speaker 3: Ripper was and this person did some weird things and
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Speaker 3: some extremely down the right murderous. So you know, if
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Speaker 3: you have one loved ones, uh you know listening that
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Speaker 3: are sensitive, you know this may not be the story
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Speaker 3: for you. But you know, if you're not sensitive, then
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Speaker 3: kick back and relax. As this person as was known
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Speaker 3: this person, his name was Herman Webster Mudget. He was
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Speaker 3: born on May sixteenth, eighteen sixty one. He also was
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Speaker 3: better known as doctor Henry Howard Holmes or HH Holmes.
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Speaker 3: He pretty much he was fascinated with Sherlock Holmes. Herman
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Speaker 3: Mudget was and he thought that he could be as
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Speaker 3: clever as Charlotte Holmes. You know, Charlock Holmes legend created
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Speaker 3: by a Circle and Doyle. And he thought he could
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Speaker 3: be just like him. So he changed his name to
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Speaker 3: Howard Holmes, as you know, take the last name like
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Speaker 3: Charlotte Holmes, but he calls himself h. H. Holmes. He
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Speaker 3: was an American con artist and he was a Siller killer.
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Speaker 3: He was active between eighteen ninety one and eighteen ninety
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Speaker 3: four and he was executed in eighteen ninety six. Holmes
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Speaker 3: had engaged in lengthy criminal career. They included insurance fraud, forgery,
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Speaker 3: swindling three or four. He was a bigamous marriages. It's
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Speaker 3: also a horse stuff. A thief and murderer, best known
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Speaker 3: as the Beasts of Chicago or the Devil in the
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Speaker 3: White City, or the Torture Doctor. His most notorious crimes
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Speaker 3: took place in Chicago, around the time the World's a
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Speaker 3: Colombian Expo. In eighteen ninety three, Holmes was convicted and
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Speaker 3: sentenced to death for the murder of Benjamin Pritzel, his
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Speaker 3: accomplice in several of his cons However, Holmes confessed to
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Speaker 3: twenty seven murders, including those of some people who were
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Speaker 3: verbally still alive. It was believed they was also killed
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Speaker 3: three of the prisons, as well as three mistresses, the
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Speaker 3: child of one of the mistresses and the sister of
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Speaker 3: the other. Holmes was hanged on May seventh, eighteen ninety six.
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Speaker 3: Much of the lore attached to Holmes occurred also to
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Speaker 3: the place known as the Murder Castle, a three story
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Speaker 3: ability they consumed are a that he commissioned on West
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Speaker 3: sixty third Street in Chicago, Illinois. Details about the building,
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Speaker 3: along with many of his alleged crimes, were considered exonerated
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Speaker 3: or fabricated for cento logic tabloid pieces, with some accounts
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Speaker 3: in or in estimating his body count to be at
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Speaker 3: high as one hundred and thirty three or even two hundred.
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Speaker 3: Many of those occurrences have pursued due to combination of
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Speaker 3: in effective police investigations or hyperbolic yellow journalism of the period,
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Speaker 3: which are often called as historical record. Holmes gave various
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Speaker 3: contrary accounts of his life, initially claiming innocence and later
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Speaker 3: he was he was possessed by Satan prosperity prosperently for
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Speaker 3: lying was made for a difficult for researchers to ascertain
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Speaker 3: the truth on the basis of his statements. For example,
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Speaker 3: he claimed that doctor Robert Laycock, a fellow medical school classmate,
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Speaker 3: was one of the first murder victims and they killed
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Speaker 3: him in eighteen eighty six for insurance money. Howard Leacock
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Speaker 3: died in October fifth, eighteen, eighteen eighty nine, in Watford, Ontario, Canada.
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Speaker 3: Since then nineteen nineties, Holmes have often been described as
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Speaker 3: a serial killer. In his book about Holmes, author Adam
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Speaker 3: Sizsler writes just killing several people wasn't necessary enough for
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Speaker 3: most definitions. For a serial killer. Most often has been
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Speaker 3: a series of similar crimes committed over a period of time,
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Speaker 3: usually more to satisfy the psychological urge and the killer's
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Speaker 3: part any more political motives and he adds the murders
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Speaker 3: we can connect the Holmes to generally had a clear motive.
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Speaker 3: Someone knew too much or it was getting his way,
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Speaker 3: and he can be trusted. The mergers weren't simply for
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Speaker 3: love or for bloodshed, the necessary part of furthering his
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Speaker 3: swindling opinion and protecting his lifestyle. Moose was born in
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Speaker 3: eighteen or May sixteenth, eighteen sixty one and Glamorton, New Hampshire,
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Speaker 3: the third child of Levy Horton Mudget and the day
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Speaker 3: Page Price, both whom were indicted from the and incited
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Speaker 3: from the first English settlers in the area. He had
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Speaker 3: two older siblings, Ellen and Arthur, and one younger brother, Henry,
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Speaker 3: as he as an anolescence. As an anolescent, Holmes attended
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Speaker 3: Phillips Axceller Academy before graded in high school with honors
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Speaker 3: at Jillimanton Academy when he was sixteen. Holmos's parents were
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Speaker 3: both a devout Methodist. His father was from farming family
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Speaker 3: and the times he worked as a farmer, trader and
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Speaker 3: house painter. He is also reportedly a heavy drinker who's
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Speaker 3: cruely cruely beat his children, almost also faced bullying. It
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Speaker 3: by classmates through the outstanding academic capability. Basically, you know,
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Speaker 3: mostly whatever want bullies about his people being nerds. You know,
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Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with that understanding being bullied by that.
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Speaker 3: In one incident, he was forced to stand in front
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Speaker 3: of the of a human skeleton and put the skeleton's
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Speaker 3: hands on a space effort to frighten him and are
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Speaker 3: initially terrified, Holmes later discovered the acceptance to be intriguing
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Speaker 3: and claimed that it helped him overcome his worries. Holmes
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Speaker 3: subsequently developed obsession with death as a result of encounter
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Speaker 3: and began dissecting animals. In eighteen seventy nine, Holmes enrolled
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Speaker 3: in the University of Vermont for one year. In eighteen
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Speaker 3: eighty two, he transferred to the University of Michigan's Department in
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Speaker 3: Medicine and Surgery. Despite his mediocre academic performance, Holmes graduated
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Speaker 3: in June eighteen eighty four. While enrolled, he worked as
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Speaker 3: a Tommy lab worked in the Attomomy lab under Professor
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Speaker 3: William Jones Interman, the chief and an autonomy instructor, and
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Speaker 3: he were said to have been engaged in uh factoring
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Speaker 3: a facility brave robbing by supply medical cadavers. Holmes had
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Speaker 3: appearance and appeared had appearanced in New Hampshire under Norm Wright,
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Speaker 3: a known advocate a human uh distinction. Years later, when
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Speaker 3: Holmes was suspended with suspective murder, he claimed to be
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Speaker 3: nothing but an insurance for protester and a man using
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Speaker 3: the cadavers to default life insurance policies several times in
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Speaker 3: college and we're an this time, you know it.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 3: He end up going to uh going to England to
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Speaker 3: further his uh, you know, his medical and of course
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Speaker 3: you know what would be a perfect place is if
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Speaker 3: you going to London and go to the red light
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Speaker 3: district and you know, finally hookers, prostitutes and what have you,
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Speaker 3: and you know they have no families whatever. And he
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Speaker 3: started to pretty much you know, learn his learning and
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Speaker 3: to own his craft in and he uh he did
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Speaker 3: that because that's where because he promptly ended when he
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Speaker 3: ended up coming back to United States. Holmes moved to
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Speaker 3: Chicago in eighteen eighty six, in August, which then he
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Speaker 3: began using all the surname HH Holmes. Soon after his rival,
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Speaker 3: he comes across the drug store at Northwest corner of
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Speaker 3: South South Wallace Avenue West sixty third Street in Englewood
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Speaker 3: section of Chicago. Drugstore's owner, Elizabeth Holton, gave Holmes a job.
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Speaker 3: He proved to be a hard work employee, mentioning by
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Speaker 3: in the store. Contrary to several accounts, Holmes did not
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Speaker 3: kill doctor E. S.
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Speaker 1: Holton.
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Speaker 3: Holmes purchased an empty lot across the street where construction
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Speaker 3: began in eighteen eighty seven, and his two story mixed
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Speaker 3: use building with apartments on the second floor and retail
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Speaker 3: space including the new drug store on the first. When
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Speaker 3: Holmes decided to pay the architects for the steel company
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Speaker 3: Athena Iron and Steel, it took him to court in
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Speaker 3: eighteen eighty eight. In eighteen ninety two, he had a
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Speaker 3: third floor, telling in investers that the players he attended
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Speaker 3: to use it was a hotel during the upcoming World
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Speaker 3: Columbian Expo con Puentary accounts reports that Holmes built the
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Speaker 3: hotel to lower tourists busying the expedition in order to
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Speaker 3: kill them and sell their skeletons to nearby medical schools.
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Speaker 3: Although he did have a history of selling stolen cadavers
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Speaker 3: and two medical medical schools Holmes had acquired these wares
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Speaker 3: through grave robbing other than murder. Otherwise, there was no
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Speaker 3: evidence that Holmes ever murdered exposition goers on the premises.
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Speaker 3: The Old Press labeled Building it Building as Holmes Murder Castle,
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Speaker 3: claiming the structure contained secret torture chambers, trap doors, gas chambers,
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Speaker 3: and basement crematoriums. None of these such way To claims
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Speaker 3: are true. Other accounts stated that the hotels made up
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Speaker 3: of hundred rooms that laid out like a ma for
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Speaker 3: doors opening into brick walls, windowless rooms, and that in
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Speaker 3: staircases that in reality the third floor hotel was model,
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Speaker 3: the size largely unremarkable and uncompleted due to Holmes. This
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Speaker 3: uh this uh pistruppers with the builders. It did contain
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Speaker 3: some of the hen rooms, but they were used for
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Speaker 3: hind furniture. Homes brought a but bought on credit, did
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Speaker 3: not intend to pay for. Homes did not kill, and
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Speaker 3: alleged homes did not kill. An alleged Castle victim, miss
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Speaker 3: Kate Durkey, who turned out to be much alive. In
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Speaker 3: his confession, Homes stated that his unusual method of killing
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Speaker 3: was to suffocate his victims, using various means, including overdose
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Speaker 3: of chloroform our over exposure to lighting gas fumes and
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Speaker 3: trapping them in airless vaults. Holmes also claimed to have
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Speaker 3: used starvation and to have burnt victims alive in his castle.
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Speaker 3: Holme's hotel was gulped in the fire and started by
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Speaker 3: unknown arsonists shortly after his arrest, but largely are largely
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Speaker 3: rebuilt and uses post office today. Our post office untail
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Speaker 3: eighteen thirty eight sizes the enormous our murder Castle Homes
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Speaker 3: also owned a one story factory which claimed was used
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Speaker 3: for glass bending. It's unclear that the factory furnace was
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Speaker 3: ever used for this purpose. As speculator, they've been using
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Speaker 3: to destroy incriminal evidence in his crimes. Holmes mistress, thirty
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Speaker 3: one year old Julia Smith, was the wife of doctor
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Speaker 3: Lewis Connor, who also moved in his building and began
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Speaker 3: to work in in his pharmacy pharmacy's Julie counter. After
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Speaker 3: Connor found out Smith's affair with Holmes, quit his job
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Speaker 3: and moved away, leaving Smith and their five year old daughter,
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Speaker 3: Pearl Connor behind. Smith gained custody of Pearl and remained
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Speaker 3: at the hotel, tending a relationship with Holmes. Julia and
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Speaker 3: Pearl both disappeared on Christmas Eve in eighteen ninety one.
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Speaker 3: Holmes definitely claimed that Julie had left unspectedly to visit
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Speaker 3: her dying sister, but they and then changed his story
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Speaker 3: and said that she had fled to her former husband. Ultimately,
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Speaker 3: Holmes later claimed that Julie had actually died during abortion.
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Speaker 3: Despite his medical background, Holmes were likely to experience carrying
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Speaker 3: out his abortions or mortally from each procedure was high
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Speaker 3: at the time. Holmes then claimed the poisoned Pearl lucky
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Speaker 3: to hie the circumstances of her mother's death. A partial skeleton,
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Speaker 3: possibly a child, around Pearl's age, was found when excavating
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Speaker 3: the home. Seller. Pearl's father was the key witness to
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Speaker 3: holmes trial in Chicago. His other one was twenty three
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Speaker 3: year old Emmaline Again began working in a Holmes building
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Speaker 3: on May eighteen ninety two and worked to him for
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Speaker 3: six months. Holmes reportedly hired this again as a secretary
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Speaker 3: due to her connection to a doctor who peddled a
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Speaker 3: vaccine that allegedly occurred alcoholism. Who saw sign in the
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Speaker 3: weeks before her disappearance, nowed that she appeared to have
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Speaker 3: lost interest in homes and their relationship. This again was
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Speaker 3: last seen. In December eighteen ninety two. Her parents were
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Speaker 3: informed that she had left a married man named Robert Phelps.
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Speaker 3: Authorities apothesized as she gotten pregnant by Holmes, possibly being
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Speaker 3: a victim another failed abortion that Holmes tried to cover up.
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Speaker 3: Rampty luggage trunk was sent back to her mother in Anderson, Indiana.
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Speaker 3: Her skeleton was found by police in the home with
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Speaker 3: Chicago position with the hope of H with M. G. Chapel,
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Speaker 3: who admitted having art articulated three skeletons for HH Holmes.
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Speaker 3: In the early eighteen eighty three, a twenty year old
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Speaker 3: one time actress Willalima will Alima Mannie Williams moved to Chicago.
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Speaker 3: Holmes claimed to have met her an employment an employment
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Speaker 3: office to believed to be actually met her in Boston
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Speaker 3: several years earlier. He was and going by his other
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Speaker 3: alias Harry Gordon. Holmes offered her a job in the
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Speaker 3: hotels a personal stenographer, and she accepted. Holmes pursued Williams
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Speaker 3: to transfer the deed to her property at Port Ward, Texas,
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Speaker 3: to a man named Alexander Bond. Which was another alias
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Speaker 3: the Holmes. In April eighteen ninety three, Williams transferred the deed,
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Speaker 3: with Holmes serving as an ordinary. Holmes later signed the
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Speaker 3: deed over to Brazil, given the alias Benton T. Lehman.
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Speaker 3: In the following months, Holmes and Williams presented themselves as
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Speaker 3: husband and wife ran an apartment in Chicago's Lincoln Park.
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Speaker 3: Minnie's younger sister, eighteen year old and a Williams, came
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Speaker 3: to visit on July fifth, eighteen eighty three. She wrote
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Speaker 3: to her aunt she planned to accompany brother Harry to Europe.
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Speaker 3: In it, she has signed the off the message Brother Harry.
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Speaker 3: Holmes also says that you need never trouble anymore about
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Speaker 3: me financially or otherwise, and her sister will see to
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Speaker 3: me help the other help. Your hard days are over. Afterward,
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Speaker 3: neither Minnie or Nanny were ever seen alive, and Holmes
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Speaker 3: use Minnie's name in the future scams. These guys never stops.
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Speaker 3: Sixty eight year old creator of homes named John Rethel
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Speaker 3: died of poxicy in at April seventeen, eighteen ninety one
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Speaker 3: in the Castle drug store. Burial collapsed and died shortly
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Speaker 3: after Holmes poured a black liquid down his throat, occurring
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Speaker 3: to illness. Foul play was not suspected eighteen ninety five.
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Speaker 3: Was he was He put it as a cast oil
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Speaker 3: or something. I'd be a little suspicious myself determined that
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Speaker 3: Bro's life was ensured that Holmes had profited from his death.
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Speaker 3: In eighteen ninety one, Emmy van Tissel disappeared after working
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Speaker 3: at holmes drug store. Almost spoke of her as his confession.
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Speaker 3: In eighteen eighty seven, Tesla's name was cited a list
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Speaker 3: of suspected victims of Tessa's mother believed that she was
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Speaker 3: foss of victim. Doctor Rustler was another victim. He was
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Speaker 3: in the office of the Castle, went missing in eighteen
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Speaker 3: ninety two. Homes mentioned killing Wrestler in his confession. Kitty Kelly,
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Speaker 3: a s tegnographer for Homes, went missing eighteen ninety two.
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Speaker 3: John Davis of Greensville, Pennsylvania went visited the eighteen ninety
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Speaker 3: three World's Fair and just vanished. In eighteen twenty was
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Speaker 3: declared legally dead. You don't wonder why Harry Walker brings
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Speaker 3: Brigandiana and missing. In November eighteen eighty three, he was
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Speaker 3: alleged to have insured his life over to Homes for
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Speaker 3: twenty thousand dollars and wrote to his friend's day he
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Speaker 3: was working for Homes. God go well gee, I wonder
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Speaker 3: what happened to him after that? Holmes claimed the two
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Speaker 3: two hundred or the twenty thousand dollars. Holmes and Pretzel
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Speaker 3: took George Thomas to a necessary swamp on Tomaghee River
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Speaker 3: in June eighteen ninety four and killed him and disposed
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Speaker 3: his body. Confessed to the murderer to his second wife,
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Speaker 3: offered coal. Baltimore disappeared after receiving a telegram of Homes
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Speaker 3: to come to Chicago enjoy. Nineteen eighty and eighteen ninety four,
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Speaker 3: the Burdbank's a bank book was found with human hair
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Speaker 3: and the chimney flew in the castle.
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Speaker 1: Five.
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Speaker 3: Holmes alleged killed two people in Linke Country, Illinois, in
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Speaker 3: eighteen ninety The deaths were confirmed in ninety teen, nineteen,
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Speaker 3: twenty three years after that execution, when the remainders of
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Speaker 3: the unknown man and woman found an off farm and
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Speaker 3: this just he just ain't ain't stopping killing here. Twenty
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Speaker 3: seven killings which Holmes confessed, only eight are confirmed with
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Speaker 3: one other considered probable. Robert Leacock was allegedly murdered by Holmes,
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Speaker 3: but allegedly he died at natural causes in November fifth
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Speaker 3: in Canada. His claim was disproven. Rogers of Megantown Our Morgantown,
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Speaker 3: was Virginia, was alleged killed by Holmes. He supposed victim
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Speaker 3: later found to be alive playing disproven. Lizzie, a domesque
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Speaker 3: worker the Castle Restaurant, which is allegedly smothered in the
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Speaker 3: vault because of Holmes, believed the janitor Clinton was too
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Speaker 3: interested in her claim. This claim was unconfirmed, so it's
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Speaker 3: kind of hard to see if it is or isn't
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Speaker 3: as it hasn't been confirmed. Rogers, a banker from North Wisconsin,
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Speaker 3: was alleged murdered and by Holmes in eighteen ninety one,
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Speaker 3: helped with an unnamed accomplice. No evidence supported its claim,
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Speaker 3: but there's no disappearance of wealthy men in North Wisconsin
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Speaker 3: towns claim. Harghley suspect Julia Connor onboard Child and Pearl
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Speaker 3: Connor were more by Holmes of Christmas murders confirmed. The
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Speaker 3: list goes on and on and on, and you know
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Speaker 3: he ended up killing bringemin britzol criminal past exhibiting uh,
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Speaker 3: let's see as a carpenter with a criminal pass to
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Speaker 3: exhibiting a colbin we investigate some same building homes used
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Speaker 3: Petzel as a right hand man several criminal schemes. Strict
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Speaker 3: attorney later described Hansel as homes creature with insurance companies
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Speaker 3: passing rescuing for Arson. Holmes left Chicago and appeared in
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Speaker 3: Fort Worth. We had appeared in a property in William's
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Speaker 3: Sisters modern day Kabean Street and Second Street were once
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Speaker 3: attempted to build a incomplete structure without pain as some
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Speaker 3: players or contract g You know whenever that one's that's
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Speaker 3: a little old, don't it wants everything you don't want
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Speaker 3: to pay it seeing. In July eighteen ninety four, Holmes
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Speaker 3: was arrested briefly jailed the first time in the charge
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Speaker 3: of selling mortgage goods at Saint Louis, Missouri. It's probably
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Speaker 3: built out. While in jail is stuck up a he
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Speaker 3: struck up a conversation with a convicted outlaw named Martin Hedgepath,
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Speaker 3: who was serving in twenty a year sentence. H concocted
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Speaker 3: planned to swindle an insurance company out of ten thousand
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Speaker 3: dollars by taking out a policy on himself and taking
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Speaker 3: his death. Holmes promised edge Path a five hundred dollars
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Speaker 3: commission and exchange it the name of lawyer could be trusted.
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Speaker 3: Malls was directed to a young Saint Louis attorney name
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Speaker 3: Jeff Hoe. Ho thought holmes scheme was brilliant and agreed
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Speaker 3: to participate. Nonetheless, Holmes planned to fake his death, and
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Speaker 3: when the insurance company became suspicious and freezed to pay,
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Speaker 3: Holmes did not press the claim. Instead, he cocked a
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Speaker 3: similar plan with Pretzel. Pretzel agreed to fake his own
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Speaker 3: death so that his wife could collect ten thousand dollars
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Speaker 3: life insurance policy, which was split into home with Holmes
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Speaker 3: and Hoe. The scheme, which was taking place in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 3: called for Pretzel to set him up with an inventor
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Speaker 3: under the name of be a Pit of Perry and
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Speaker 3: killed they and then be killed and then be killed
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Speaker 3: and disfigured in lab explosion. Holmes was to find accomplice
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Speaker 3: a cadaver play the role of Pretzel. Instead, Holmes killed
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Speaker 3: Pretzel September fourth, eighteen ninety four by knocking him unconscious
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Speaker 3: with chloroform, sent his body on fire with limousine, which
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Speaker 3: is in his confession, Alms implied that Pretzel was still
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Speaker 3: alive after he used chloroform on him before he sat
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Speaker 3: down on fire. However, forensic evidence presented holmes later trials
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Speaker 3: showed chloroform had been ministered after Pretzel's death. In fact,
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Speaker 3: the insurance company was aware. Are similarly the stage of
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Speaker 3: suicide extant Holmes would be charged with murder. Homes collected
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Speaker 3: the insurance payout the biases the genuine Pretzel Corps. Homes
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Speaker 3: then manipulated Pretzel's unexpected wife, Carrie Ellis Canning, to allan
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Speaker 3: three of her five children to be placed in his custody.
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Speaker 3: The three children were placed in under Holmes's care, and
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Speaker 3: thirteen year old Alice Pretzel, nine year old Nelly Pretzel,
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Speaker 3: and seven year old Howard Robert Pretzel. Homes Homes and
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Speaker 3: three Pretzel children traveled throughout the Northeastern United States into Canada.
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Speaker 3: A sub sub simultaneously escorted carry along the parallel route
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Speaker 3: while the usually various aliases and Laynea carey Or concerning
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Speaker 3: her her husband's death by claiming Petzel was hiding in London,
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Speaker 3: as well as laying her about the true whereabouts her
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Speaker 3: three missing children in Troy just before entering Canada. Were
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Speaker 3: they were only they were They were separated by only
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Speaker 3: a few blocks and even more are more courageous move
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Speaker 3: Holmes was staying another location with his current wife as
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Speaker 3: was unaware with this whole affair. Holmes later confessed to
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Speaker 3: murdering Alice and Natalie on October twenty fifth, eighteen eighty four,
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Speaker 3: by forcing them into a large trunk and walking them
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Speaker 3: inside the hole, lid in the trunk and put one
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Speaker 3: of the hose through the hole, attaching the other end
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Speaker 3: too a guest line and fix it. The girls homes
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Speaker 3: bury their new bodies in the cellar a rental house
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Speaker 3: at sixteen Saint Vincent Street in Toronto. Frank Greer, as
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Speaker 3: a Philadelphia Police Department sective A, signed to investigate the
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Speaker 3: homes and and found and found beneath the three feet
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Speaker 3: a bone of forum a human being discovered that there
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Speaker 3: were the girls, and he was captured and that was executed.
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Speaker 3: And there was also on the where the murder house
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Speaker 3: was at sixty third Wallace Streets in Inglewood. It was
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Speaker 3: a post office was modest somewhere in their yellow brick
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Speaker 3: building when many built during the New Ideal era under
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Speaker 3: President of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Chicago trends yet authority.
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Speaker 3: Green lane runs available trestle behind the post office. Concrete
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Speaker 3: freight train runs through just the east and and eagles
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Speaker 3: uh carbon the stones hanging the front doors. The post
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Speaker 3: office will signed a three year uh brangals one h
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Speaker 3: once black now faded blue, a circle next to the doors.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: You know where the where the mainly where there's stood
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Speaker 3: there you know where the murder house stood as a
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Speaker 3: post office. And they said that there's some ghosts in
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Speaker 3: there where in the mall room and everything. They hear
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Speaker 3: footsteps and cries and you know, other voices. And I
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Speaker 3: also could take the tours around the same same spot
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Speaker 3: and around the campus. And there's also uh pictures of
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Speaker 3: the murder House of what his diagrams look like and stuff.
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Speaker 3: And if you wanna you want to see that, it's online.
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Speaker 3: But there you go. Jack the Ripper is now H. H.
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