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HAROLD SCHECHTER is a professor of American literature and culture. Renowned for his true-crime writing, he is the author of the nonfiction books Fatal, Fiend, Bestial, Deviant, Deranged, Depraved, and, with David Everitt, The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. He is also the author of Nevermore and The Hum Bug, the acclaimed historical novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe. He lives in New York State.
Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes. (Illinois State Historical Library)
A rare photograph of Benjamin Freelon Pitezel, taken when he was twenty-eight. (Courtesy of Mildred Vooris Kerr)
Dessie and Nellie Pitezel. (Courtesy of Mildred Vooris Kerr)
Alice and Howard Pitezel. (Courtesy of Mildred Vooris Kerr)
Dessie Pitezel holding her infant brother, Wharton. (Courtesy of Mildred Vooris Kerr)
A rare photograph of Holmes’s Castle. (Chicago Historical Society)
Ned Conner. (Illinois State Historical Library)
Julia Conner. (Illinois State Historical Library)
Minnie Williams. (Illinois State Historical Library)
Marion Hedgepeth, “The Handsome Bandit.” (UPI/BETTMANN)
Detective Frank Geyer. (Illinois State Historical Library)
Pat Quinlan, the janitor of the Castle and suspected accomplice of H. H. Holmes. (Illinois State Historical Library)
“Bluebeard’s Chamber of Horrors” is the headline of this newspaper illustration, which shows the labyrinthine second floor of the Castle, along with some of the building’s sinister features. (Illinois State Historical Library)
Curiosity-seekers gather around the Castle. (Illinois State Historical Library)
Holmes forces the Pitezel girls into his oversized trunk, then feeds a rubber tube, connected to a gas jet, into the pre-drilled hole.
Holmes stands by coolly while Alice and Nellie asphyxiate inside the trunk.
Holmes strangles Howard Pitezel.
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