The Hotel That Never Opened: H.H. Holmes and the Murder Castle
The Hotel That Never Opened: The True Story of H.H. Holmes and the Murder Castle
How does a man kill his closest associates for years in the middle of America's busiest city, and get caught only when an insurance company audits a claim? How much of the infamous "Murder Castle," with its trapdoors and gas chambers, was real, and how much was invented by the yellow press after his arrest? And why did a condemned man sell a confession naming victims who were still alive?
In this episode, we follow Herman Webster Mudgett, the swindler who became H.H. Holmes, from a New Hampshire farm town to a…
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