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‐ [Narrator] Humanity has
achieved great heights.
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We have landed on the moon,
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place a powerful
computer in our pockets,
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cured numerous diseases,
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and brought the
world the most evil
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and deranged serial killers.
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(dramatic music)
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There are very few that
stand out quite as much
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as H. H. Holmes and
his murder hotel.
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In fact, his
notoriety is so great
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that Hollywood embarked on
a blockbuster about him.
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Now it has even
claimed that Britain's
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most notorious serial
killer, Jack The Ripper
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was none other than
Holmes himself.
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He presided over The Castle,
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a devilish, architectural
creation in downtown Chicago
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made specifically
to murder people.
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(dramatic music)
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Trap doors, chutes, false doors
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hidden passageways and spy holes
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made the Murder Castle the
infamous building of its age.
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(dramatic music)
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Many victims were
beaten to death,
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some were strangled,
others gassed,
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and yet more were
tortured on racks
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before they lost their lives.
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(heavy breathing)
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(loud screaming)
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When he was finally caught,
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he confessed to 27 murders.
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Although it is believed by many,
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that he murdered over 200.
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‐ [Male] Somebody
help me. Someone help.
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‐ [Female] Please help us.
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‐ [Narrator] But it is
not the number of deaths
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that is the cause of
his devilish fame.
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It is, in fact, the
methods he used.
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This is the tale of
the evil dark lord
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of the murder
hotel, guts and all.
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(loud screaming)
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(dramatic music)
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His real name was
Herman Webster Mudgett,
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and he was born in 1861.
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He has become one of America's
most famous serial killers
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under the name of Dr.
Henry Howard Holmes.
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But his tale is not
so easy to decipher.
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Of the 27 people he
claimed to have murdered,
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there was a problem.
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Some of them were in fact
still alive when he confessed.
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Of the 200 he supposedly killed,
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we discover that
this myth originated
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in a pulp magazine
from the 1940s.
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It is stated he murdered his
victims in the murder hotel
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close to the 1893 World Fair.
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In fact, the hotel itself
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was never truly
opened to the public.
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So what is the truth?
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What did this enigmatic
evil man really get up to?
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(tense music)
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The other side of Holmes was
as a con artist and bigamist
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with over 50 lawsuits in
the Chicago area alone.
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But beware because not only
was Holmes a con artist
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but much of that is
claimed about him
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is equally based on fiction.
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His own life was a lie,
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and so too are a great many
of the stories about him.
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In order to unravel the
mind of the murderer,
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we need to understand his
character and background.
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Unlike the police of the period,
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we need to be more like
FBI agents and profile him.
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This involves understanding
his early life,
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what created him,
what forces pushed him
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towards the life that
he decided to lead?
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His life began in
Gilmanton, New Hampshire
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on May the 16th, 1861.
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Both of his parents were
descendants of English settlers,
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and Herman was the third child.
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In all, he had an elder
sister and brother
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and a younger
sister and brother.
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He was the middle
child, nothing special.
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The family were foreigners.
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They would do whatever they
needed to in order to survive:
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farming, trading, and
even painting houses.
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Along with the majority
of people of the period,
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they were devout Christians,
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and in their case Methodists.
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There is no evidence that
he was in any way cruel
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or even abused during this time.
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These are things we
would have expected,
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and indeed these are things
that have been claimed
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and found to have
no basis in fact.
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Herman lived a perfectly
ordinary childhood
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as far as we can tell.
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He graduated from
high school at 16
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and proceeded to take on
teaching jobs in Gilmanton
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and nearby Alton.
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He eventually met Clara Loving,
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and they married on
July the 4th, 1878.
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They had a son, Robert Loving
Mudgett two years later.
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Robert would himself go on to
live a perfectly ordinary life
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and become an accountant
and city manager
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in Orlando, Florida.
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After a short time under the
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apprenticeship of
Dr. Nahum Wright,
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where he learned about
human dissection,
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Herman managed to
get himself into
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university in Burlington,
Vermont when he was only 18.
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But spent only one year there
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due to being dissatisfied
with the university itself.
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In 1882 he enrolled into
the University of Michigan
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in the Department of
Medicine and Surgery.
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During his time there,
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he worked in the
anatomy laboratory under
Professor Herdman.
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He graduated in 1884.
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His time around anatomy and
human cadavers would later
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enable him to use them to
defraud insurance companies.
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By 1884 Clara left Herman and
moved back to New Hampshire.
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She never saw him again.
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Their housemates
would later state
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that Herman was
violent towards Clara.
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(heavy sobbing)
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Herman then moved to
Mooers Forks, New York.
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where things started to emerge.
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Rumors started to circulate
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that he had been seen
with a young boy.
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He never denied this.
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When the boy disappeared
he claimed the boy had
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simply gone back to his
parents in Massachusetts.
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There was no evidence
that could stick
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no boy, no body and so
there was no investigation.
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Herman fled town soon after.
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He ended up in Philadelphia
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and managed to get
a job as a keeper
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at the Norristown
State Hospital.
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It lasted a few days
and he resigned.
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He then appears to have
landed a job at a drugstore.
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Again things turned sour
when a young boy died
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from drugs sold to him
at the very same store.
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Herman was accused and again
denied any wrong doing.
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He fled again and just
before he arrived in Chicago,
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he changed his name to
Henry Howard Holmes.
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It is obvious that this
was to avoid having himself
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linked by anybody to
previous misdemeanors.
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Later in his confession
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Holmes claimed that
about this time
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he had killed his
former classmate
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Dr. Robert Leacock
for insurance money.
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In fact, Dr. Leacock died
in Watford, Canada in 1889.
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(gentle music)
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At the same time as
this fictitious murder,
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Holmes in fact
married Myrta Belknap
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while still married to Clara.
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He did actually file divorce
papers after marrying Myrta
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alleging Clara had
cheated on him.
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There was no evidence that
Clara ever saw the papers
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or that she committed adultery,
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and the divorce never happened.
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He did go on to have
a daughter with Myrta.
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Her name was Lucy,
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and she would become a
school teacher later in life.
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They all lived together in
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Wilmette, Illinois
for a short while.
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But Holmes was
getting into a habit,
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and on January the 17th, 1894,
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he married Georgiana
Yoke in Denver, Colorado
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while still being married
to Clara and Myrta.
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However, we must go back to
1886 and Chicago in order
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to get to the more interesting
element of his life.
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It was this year that
he arrived in Chicago
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and where he discovered
the drugstore at the
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southwest corner of
South Wallace Avenue
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and West 63rd
Street in Englewood.
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It was owned by
Elizabeth S. Holton,
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and she gave Holmes a job.
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Amazingly he proved himself
to be a hardworking employee
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and eventually a deal was
struck and he bought the store.
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Some have claimed that Holmes
murdered Mr. and Mrs. Holton.
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But the truth is that
both lived out their lives
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in Englewood into
the 20th Century.
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Another example of the
fiction surrounding Holmes,
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and a warning for
us about believing
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everything claimed about him.
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Business boomed for Holmes,
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and he soon purchased an empty
plot opposite the drugstore.
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He had plans.
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By 1887 construction on a
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two‐story mixed
use building began.
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His intention was for
apartments on the second floor
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and retail space on the ground
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with a super new
drugstore on the first.
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In 1888 he was
already being sued
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for nonpayment to the
architects and steel company.
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But by 1892 he was
adding another floor.
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His plan he told his investors
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was to turn the upper
portion into a hotel
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for the upcoming World's
Columbian Exposition.
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In fact, the hotel portion
was never completed.
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As if the world of Holmes
couldn't get anymore bizarre,
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this is where the sickness
begins to reveal itself.
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The supplier of his
furniture investigated
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because of nonpayment
and found that he been
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hiding their materials
in hidden rooms
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and passages throughout
the whole building.
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In fact, it was such a scandal
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that news of the
investigation hit the press.
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(gentle music)
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Investors were shown these
articles by a jeweler
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from the building
and they pulled out.
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Then another twist.
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The third floor
strangely caught fire
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on August the 13th, 1893.
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The only people believed to
be in the building at the time
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were residents and
long‐term employees.
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It transpired that Holmes had
taken out insurance policies
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on the building with no
less than four companies.
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They all sued him.
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(gentle music)
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The life of Holmes thus far
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appears to be as a
bigamist and con artist
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with a couple of possible
child murders thrown in.
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But what about the
serial killing?
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Where did all that begin?
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One of the earliest victims
we know of is Julia Smythe.
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She was the wife of Alex Conner,
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a resident of the
building and employee.
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She was also the mistress
of Holmes himself.
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Conner discovered the affair.
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He resigned and left his
wife and daughter behind
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to the fate of Holmes.
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Smythe and her daughter
remained at the Holmes hotel
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and continued her
relationship with him.
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Then Christmas 1891
they both disappeared.
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Holmes would later claim
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that she had died
during an abortion.
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It was never discovered exactly
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what happened to both
mother and child,
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but it is known they both
suffered at the hands of Holmes.
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(dramatic music)
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In May 1892 Emeline Cigrande
started working at the hotel.
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She too began an
affair with Holmes,
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and she too disappeared
the following December.
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The same thing happened
to Edna Van Tassel
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who simply vanished off
the face of the Earth.
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(dramatic music)
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For a time Holmes worked at
the Chemical Bank building
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on Dearborn Street where
he met Benjamin Pitezel
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a carpenter who was exhibiting
a coal bin invention.
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The two became close friends,
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and with Benjamin's criminal
record there is little wonder.
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Together they plotted
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and conceived various
criminal schemes.
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In fact, Benjamin was nothing
more than the tool of Holmes
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as the district attorney
would later state.
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(dramatic music)
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Minnie Williams had
been an actress.
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She moved to Chicago and
soon she landed a job
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with Holmes at his hotel
as his stenographer.
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(gentle music)
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Through his persuasive ways,
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he had soon convinced
Minnie to sign over
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the deed to her property
in Fort Worth, Texas
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to a man named Alexander Bond.
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This man was in fact Holmes.
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Holmes served as the notary
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and later signed the deed
over to Benjamin Pitezel
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under the name of
Benton T. Lyman.
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Following this Holmes and
Minnie rent an apartment
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in Lincoln Park as man and wife.
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(gentle music)
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Minnie invited her sister
Nannie over to stay.
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She wrote a letter to her aunt
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that she was off to
Europe on a trip.
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Neither Minnie nor Nannie
were ever seen again.
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(dramatic music)
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Even as all of
this was happening,
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it is believed that his victims
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in the Murder Castle
were piling up,
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gassed, tortured,
beaten, and worse.
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(tense music)
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Most bodies would
never be found,
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and the exact number
of his victims unknown.
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Most were probably sent
down the body chutes
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into the basement where
they were incinerated
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or disposed by acid baths.
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Some were skinned and
kept for observation,
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and others reduced to
bones which he sold.
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But things were not
looking good for Holmes.
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His various criminal activities
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were beginning to
reach a peak point.
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Insurance companies were
after him for arson.
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In July 1894 he fled
Chicago for Fort Worth
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to take up property
he had inherited from
Minnie and Nannie.
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He had learned nothing
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and decide to begin erecting
yet another castle or hotel
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in the same vain as
the one in Chicago.
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(dramatic music)
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He proceeded to con
several suppliers.
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For the very first time
Holmes was actually arrested
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on the charge of
selling mortgage goods,
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goods he did not own.
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(dramatic music)
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Every area of his life
has its opportunities.
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While in jail he
found friendship
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with the convicted
outlaw Marion Hedgepeth.
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Holmes had a cunning plan
to con an insurance company
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out of a massive $10,000.
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He would take out a
life policy on himself
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and then proceed to
fake his own death.
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All Hedgepeth had to do
was give Holmes the name of
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a lawyer who could be trusted
with such a devious plan
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and in return he'd
get a $500 commission.
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He was guided towards
a lawyer in St. Louis
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called Jeptha Howe,
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who was in practice
with his elder brother.
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Neither of the brothers had
any links to Holmes or Pitezel,
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and so there could
be no connections.
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It was perfect.
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Jeptha thought the
plan was inspired,
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and they proceeded
to carry it out.
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However, the insurance
company soon became suspicious
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and refused to pay out.
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The matter went no further.
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(dramatic music)
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Instead Holmes turned
back to Pitezel
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with the exact same plan.
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This time it would be
Pitezel's death and not Holmes.
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Pitezel set himself
up as an inventor
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under the name of B. F.
Perry in Philadelphia.
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He would be killed and
mutilated in a lab experiment.
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Holmes was to find a cadaver
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that could be used as
the mutilated corpse.
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What actually happened is much
more on the realms of karma.
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Holmes actually
did kill Pitezel.
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He used chloroform
to knock him out
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and then set him on fire.
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00:29:06,146 --> 00:29:08,949
Later when confessing
to the crime,
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Holmes stated that
Pitezel was alive
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when he was set on fire.
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00:29:12,853 --> 00:29:15,255
But the evidence actually
showed the man was dead
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even before the chloroform
was administered.
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It had in fact been
a very poor attempt
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to make it look like suicide.
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The plot worked and Holmes
collected the insurance money.
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It was never enough.
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He proceeded to
convince Pitezel's widow
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to allow three of her
children to be in his custody.
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He traveled with them across
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the northern states
and into Canada
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while at the same time
meeting and traveling
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with Mrs. Pitezel
along a parallel route.
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He had told her that
Pitezel was actually alive
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and hiding in London.
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She had no idea where
her children were.
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Holmes later confessed to
murdering Alice and Nellie.
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He forced them into a large
trunk and locked them in.
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He then drilled a hole through
which he forced a hose.
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He then gassed the
poor little girls.
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He proceeded to bury
their nude bodies
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in the cellar of his
rented house in Toronto.
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(dramatic music)
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But there was a
detective on his trail.
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Frank Geyer was
from Philadelphia
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00:30:49,583 --> 00:30:53,019
and he'd been on Holmes'
trail for a while.
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He dug up the cellar
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and found the decomposed
bodies of the girls.
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Nellie's feet had been removed
and Frank wondered why.
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00:31:02,696 --> 00:31:06,066
He then discovered
she'd had clubbed foot.
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00:31:06,099 --> 00:31:08,869
It turned out that Holmes
had removed her feet
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00:31:08,902 --> 00:31:10,837
to stop the bodies
being identified.
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00:31:15,075 --> 00:31:17,844
(dramatic music)
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00:31:26,820 --> 00:31:29,890
Frank followed Holmes
to Indianapolis.
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00:31:29,923 --> 00:31:32,158
Holmes had rented
a small cottage
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and had recently
purchased the same drugs
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he had used to murder Pitezel.
393
00:31:36,963 --> 00:31:38,932
He'd also been to a repair shop
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to have his knives sharpened.
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00:31:41,501 --> 00:31:44,938
In fact, the third child
had now been murdered,
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00:31:44,971 --> 00:31:47,173
and his bones and
teeth were later found
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00:31:47,207 --> 00:31:48,975
in the chimney of the cottage.
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00:31:51,277 --> 00:31:54,014
(dramatic music)
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00:32:03,924 --> 00:32:06,927
There was no longer
any escape for Holmes,
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and on the 17th of November
1894 he was arrested in Boston.
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00:32:20,974 --> 00:32:24,645
He had been tracked all the
way by the infamous Pinkertons.
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00:32:37,924 --> 00:32:42,095
Initially he was held on an
arrest warrant for horse theft
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00:32:42,128 --> 00:32:43,964
a small matter but one that
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00:32:43,997 --> 00:32:46,432
allowed the authorities
to hold him.
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00:32:46,466 --> 00:32:49,803
They suspected he was
about to flee the country
406
00:32:49,836 --> 00:32:52,472
along with his
unsuspecting third wife.
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00:33:04,985 --> 00:33:07,453
It was soon after
this arrest that Alice
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00:33:07,487 --> 00:33:10,891
and Nellie's bodies had
been found in Chicago.
409
00:33:10,924 --> 00:33:13,059
Soon reporters and police alike
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00:33:13,093 --> 00:33:16,863
were looking more closely
at his property in Englewood
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00:33:16,897 --> 00:33:19,065
which had now become
known as The Castle.
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00:33:21,067 --> 00:33:23,570
(tense music)
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00:33:30,877 --> 00:33:33,479
There were copious claims
made about The Castle
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00:33:33,514 --> 00:33:35,048
but no evidence.
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00:33:35,081 --> 00:33:37,551
Claims of torture equipment
found in the building
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00:33:37,584 --> 00:33:40,253
remained just that: Claims.
417
00:33:40,286 --> 00:33:42,088
The evidence does
not back this up.
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00:33:53,399 --> 00:33:57,504
By October 1895, Holmes
was standing trial
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00:33:57,538 --> 00:33:59,405
for the murder of
Benjamin Pitezel.
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00:34:00,607 --> 00:34:03,644
He was found guilty
and sentenced to death.
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00:34:03,677 --> 00:34:06,747
It was obvious that he'd
also murdered the children.
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00:34:19,125 --> 00:34:21,695
He then proceeded to
confess to the murder of
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27 people in Chicago,
Indianapolis, and Toronto.
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00:34:27,267 --> 00:34:29,703
Some of the people that he
claimed to have murdered
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00:34:29,736 --> 00:34:31,404
were in fact still alive.
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00:34:32,238 --> 00:34:35,275
(dramatic music)
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00:34:41,447 --> 00:34:44,084
Bizarrely the Hearst newspaper
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00:34:44,117 --> 00:34:48,121
paid him $7,500
for his confession.
429
00:34:48,154 --> 00:34:50,724
Even at the point of near death,
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00:34:50,757 --> 00:34:52,092
Holmes could not help himself
431
00:34:53,193 --> 00:34:55,161
and he spun a story
for the people
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00:34:55,195 --> 00:34:57,598
that were happy to be conned.
433
00:35:05,506 --> 00:35:07,240
The confessions
were very quickly
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00:35:07,273 --> 00:35:10,343
brushed aside as
full of fantasy.
435
00:35:10,376 --> 00:35:11,812
Money well spent.
436
00:35:20,554 --> 00:35:24,424
Yet, the legacy of
his fiction continued.
437
00:35:24,457 --> 00:35:28,428
Even today books, articles,
TV shows, and movies
438
00:35:28,461 --> 00:35:31,131
continue to repeat
the so‐called facts.
439
00:35:32,198 --> 00:35:33,634
Throughout the whole thing
440
00:35:33,667 --> 00:35:36,870
Holmes continued
to spin his tales.
441
00:35:36,903 --> 00:35:39,205
He gave several
accounts of his life
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00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,842
all of them
contradicted each other.
443
00:35:41,875 --> 00:35:45,145
On the one hand it was
completely innocent,
444
00:35:45,178 --> 00:35:47,447
and then in the next
breath he was guilty
445
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,415
and working for Satan himself.
446
00:35:56,156 --> 00:36:00,894
His statements cannot and
should not be taken into account
447
00:36:00,927 --> 00:36:03,864
because even those experts
who interviewed him
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00:36:03,897 --> 00:36:05,065
knew he was lying.
449
00:36:10,170 --> 00:36:13,640
Holmes himself wrote
whilst in prison
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00:36:13,674 --> 00:36:16,409
that his facial
features had changed
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00:36:16,442 --> 00:36:18,879
and that now he
resembled the devil.
452
00:36:25,385 --> 00:36:28,822
On May the 17th, 1896
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00:36:28,855 --> 00:36:32,826
the devil was hanged at
Philadelphia County prison.
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00:36:32,859 --> 00:36:36,563
Until the end he was
calm and friendly.
455
00:36:36,597 --> 00:36:39,833
He showed no signs of
fear or depression.
456
00:36:39,866 --> 00:36:42,168
He did ask one thing,
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00:36:42,202 --> 00:36:44,838
something that takes us
right back to his early days
458
00:36:44,871 --> 00:36:47,874
when he worked in
anatomy and dissection.
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00:36:47,908 --> 00:36:51,545
He requested that his coffin
be buried 10 feet deep
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00:36:51,578 --> 00:36:53,780
and covered in cement.
461
00:36:53,814 --> 00:36:57,483
He feared the grave robbers
and subsequent dissection.
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00:36:58,318 --> 00:37:00,186
Amazingly there would be some
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00:37:00,220 --> 00:37:03,624
strange karma in
this as we shall see.
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00:37:10,964 --> 00:37:15,268
At the final hour it turned
out that his neck did not snap,
465
00:37:15,301 --> 00:37:18,739
and so he was strangled
to death instead.
466
00:37:18,772 --> 00:37:22,609
It took 15 to 20 long
minutes for him to die
467
00:37:22,643 --> 00:37:24,010
as he twitched and moaned.
468
00:37:26,279 --> 00:37:29,315
(dramatic music)
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00:37:45,131 --> 00:37:47,568
The death surrounding
this serial killer
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00:37:47,601 --> 00:37:50,103
did not seem to end there.
471
00:37:50,136 --> 00:37:53,339
The prisoner Hedgepeth,
who had helped Holmes
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00:37:53,373 --> 00:37:56,276
was shot dead on
New Year's Eve 1909.
473
00:37:57,277 --> 00:38:00,180
The caretaker of The
Castle a Mr. Quinlan
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00:38:00,213 --> 00:38:03,349
appeared to have committed
suicide with strychnine.
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00:38:03,383 --> 00:38:05,318
He left a note that simply said,
476
00:38:05,351 --> 00:38:07,621
"I could not sleep."
477
00:38:07,654 --> 00:38:10,290
He had been haunted
by hallucinations.
478
00:38:16,362 --> 00:38:19,365
In 1895 The Castle itself
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00:38:19,399 --> 00:38:22,335
was almost destroyed
by a mysterious fire.
480
00:38:23,169 --> 00:38:24,971
Two men had been seen entering
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00:38:25,005 --> 00:38:27,307
at the back and leaving again.
482
00:38:27,340 --> 00:38:30,176
A half empty gas can
was later discovered.
483
00:38:37,851 --> 00:38:41,822
Today the building is completely
new and a post office,
484
00:38:45,091 --> 00:38:48,061
and so we arrive
at the modern era
485
00:38:48,094 --> 00:38:49,796
and the fantasies
that have emerged
486
00:38:49,830 --> 00:38:52,032
surrounding the con
artist and bigamist
487
00:38:52,065 --> 00:38:53,534
who liked to murder people.
488
00:38:59,773 --> 00:39:03,109
Claims that Holmes had in
fact never been executed
489
00:39:03,143 --> 00:39:07,848
were so strong that in
2017 his body was exhumed.
490
00:39:07,881 --> 00:39:10,517
The world awaited the results.
491
00:39:10,551 --> 00:39:13,419
The cement he had so
strongly insisted on
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00:39:13,453 --> 00:39:17,858
having cover his coffin actually
helped the investigators
493
00:39:17,891 --> 00:39:20,894
because the body
was well preserved.
494
00:39:20,927 --> 00:39:24,064
His clothes and
mustache were intact.
495
00:39:24,097 --> 00:39:26,332
His teeth records
and DNA analysis
496
00:39:26,366 --> 00:39:29,202
researchers proved beyond doubt
497
00:39:29,235 --> 00:39:32,873
that the body they exhumed
was that of H. H. Holmes.
498
00:39:38,712 --> 00:39:42,683
But as ever the conspiracy
theorists will not rest.
499
00:39:42,716 --> 00:39:44,417
Belief is a powerful thing.
500
00:39:51,558 --> 00:39:53,960
But let us just step
backwards a moment
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00:39:53,994 --> 00:39:56,763
into the infamous murder
hotel, The Castle.
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00:40:03,136 --> 00:40:05,739
We now know that
using his abilities
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00:40:05,772 --> 00:40:07,574
as an expert con artist,
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00:40:07,608 --> 00:40:10,176
he managed to build the
so‐called Murder Castle.
505
00:40:11,077 --> 00:40:13,146
It is the method of construction
506
00:40:13,179 --> 00:40:15,749
which begins to open our eyes.
507
00:40:15,782 --> 00:40:17,551
Over the period of building,
508
00:40:17,584 --> 00:40:22,055
Holmes hired and fired a
series of construction crews.
509
00:40:22,088 --> 00:40:25,759
He held the architectural
plans close to his chest
510
00:40:25,792 --> 00:40:27,427
revealing what he needed to.
511
00:40:28,929 --> 00:40:31,832
Nobody seemed to know the
whole plan except him.
512
00:40:34,835 --> 00:40:37,437
(people sobbing)
513
00:40:37,470 --> 00:40:40,073
In the building
there was a basement,
514
00:40:40,106 --> 00:40:42,408
a series of shops
at street level,
515
00:40:42,442 --> 00:40:44,477
and two‐stories sitting
on top of the shops
516
00:40:44,511 --> 00:40:46,513
that comprise the hotel.
517
00:40:47,814 --> 00:40:50,150
His intention was to have
the property finished
518
00:40:50,183 --> 00:40:52,252
by the time of the World's Fair
519
00:40:52,285 --> 00:40:54,621
also known as the
Columbian Exposition.
520
00:40:56,356 --> 00:41:00,026
When complete the hotel
was a amaze of hallways,
521
00:41:00,060 --> 00:41:03,396
soundproof rooms that often
locked from the inside,
522
00:41:04,598 --> 00:41:07,167
and gas pipes that were
controlled by a panel
523
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:08,468
in Holmes own closet.
524
00:41:14,541 --> 00:41:16,977
Additionally,
closets had peepholes
525
00:41:17,010 --> 00:41:19,613
and secret panels that
led to passageways
526
00:41:19,646 --> 00:41:20,881
which Holmes passed through.
527
00:41:22,015 --> 00:41:24,050
Trap doors in
floors and ceilings
528
00:41:24,084 --> 00:41:25,886
and horrifying greased chutes
529
00:41:25,919 --> 00:41:28,622
that funneled his
hapless victims
530
00:41:28,655 --> 00:41:30,190
to the basement of the building.
531
00:41:31,224 --> 00:41:34,027
(dramatic music)
532
00:41:35,529 --> 00:41:37,864
When police finally
raided the building
533
00:41:37,898 --> 00:41:39,533
after Holmes' arrest,
534
00:41:39,566 --> 00:41:41,902
they found a human sized oven
535
00:41:41,935 --> 00:41:44,905
that could heat up
to 3,000 degrees
536
00:41:44,938 --> 00:41:48,575
turning his victims
to untraceable ashes.
537
00:41:48,609 --> 00:41:51,377
(dramatic music)
538
00:41:54,715 --> 00:41:56,550
While many who went missing
539
00:41:56,583 --> 00:41:59,152
after checking
into Holmes' hotel
540
00:41:59,185 --> 00:42:01,221
simply disappeared forever,
541
00:42:01,254 --> 00:42:05,058
Holmes was also known to sell
skeletons to medical schools.
542
00:42:06,292 --> 00:42:08,762
It's unknown how many of
those prepared cadavers
543
00:42:08,795 --> 00:42:12,265
were actually his victims
hidden in plain sight.
544
00:42:17,571 --> 00:42:19,706
Because of all this uncertainty
545
00:42:19,740 --> 00:42:23,209
and the devilish fantasy
he wove around himself,
546
00:42:23,243 --> 00:42:25,946
we will actually never
know the entire truth
547
00:42:25,979 --> 00:42:27,447
about the Murder Castle.
548
00:42:28,749 --> 00:42:32,218
We will never know how many
victims and who they were.
549
00:42:32,252 --> 00:42:34,621
This was the 19th Century
550
00:42:34,655 --> 00:42:36,456
and records of births and deaths
551
00:42:36,489 --> 00:42:38,625
were not what they are today.
552
00:42:38,659 --> 00:42:41,461
(dramatic music)
553
00:42:44,397 --> 00:42:47,968
As if the whole story of Holmes
was not difficult enough,
554
00:42:48,001 --> 00:42:51,037
it now turns out there is
another twist to the tale
555
00:42:51,071 --> 00:42:56,076
and one that has a lot of
people convinced H. H. Holmes
556
00:42:57,578 --> 00:43:00,514
was none other than
London's Jack The Ripper.
557
00:43:02,115 --> 00:43:04,751
Yes, you heard right.
558
00:43:04,785 --> 00:43:07,588
(dramatic music)
559
00:43:12,759 --> 00:43:14,294
Let us just take a moment
560
00:43:14,327 --> 00:43:17,463
to delve into the world
of Jack The Ripper
561
00:43:17,497 --> 00:43:20,701
to remind ourselves of this
particular serial killer.
562
00:43:27,641 --> 00:43:30,476
The year is 1888.
563
00:43:30,511 --> 00:43:33,680
The location
Whitechapel, London.
564
00:43:33,714 --> 00:43:36,783
(dramatic music)
565
00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:42,789
The name came from a
letter sent to the media
566
00:43:42,823 --> 00:43:45,792
claiming to have been
written by Jack himself.
567
00:43:45,826 --> 00:43:49,863
It is believed to be a hoax
and yet the name stuck.
568
00:43:55,335 --> 00:44:00,173
From Jews to Irish immigrants,
the East End of Whitechapel
569
00:44:00,206 --> 00:44:03,710
had swelled in numbers
during the 19th Century.
570
00:44:03,744 --> 00:44:07,748
It was overcrowded, poor,
and in a terrible state.
571
00:44:09,716 --> 00:44:12,185
(somber music)
572
00:44:14,988 --> 00:44:18,725
Violence, theft,
murder, alcohol abuse,
573
00:44:18,759 --> 00:44:20,727
and prostitution were rife.
574
00:44:25,699 --> 00:44:30,336
Whitechapel was notorious
and grew worse when
575
00:44:30,370 --> 00:44:34,040
in 1888 a series
of horrific attacks
576
00:44:34,074 --> 00:44:35,742
occurred on prostitutes.
577
00:44:36,710 --> 00:44:39,746
(dramatic music)
578
00:44:41,081 --> 00:44:44,918
Nobody knows how many women
were killed by Jack himself.
579
00:44:44,951 --> 00:44:46,252
There were so many.
580
00:44:52,225 --> 00:44:57,230
We know of 11 murders between
April 1888 and February 1891
581
00:44:58,865 --> 00:45:01,968
that were included in the
official police investigation.
582
00:45:03,269 --> 00:45:06,840
Five of these are known
as the canonical five
583
00:45:06,873 --> 00:45:08,108
and known to be his work.
584
00:45:08,975 --> 00:45:11,778
(dramatic music)
585
00:45:14,047 --> 00:45:18,018
There are certain indications
that give him away.:
586
00:45:18,051 --> 00:45:20,086
deep slashes to the throat,
587
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,756
abdominal and
genital mutilation,
588
00:45:22,789 --> 00:45:27,628
removal of internal organs,
and facial mutilations.
589
00:45:27,661 --> 00:45:30,463
(dramatic music)
590
00:45:45,145 --> 00:45:48,949
We need not run through all
the victims and circumstances.
591
00:45:48,982 --> 00:45:53,086
Instead we'll take a look
at the canonical five.
592
00:45:53,119 --> 00:45:56,923
Their names were Mary Ann
Nichols, Annie Chapman,
593
00:45:56,957 --> 00:46:01,662
Elizabeth Stride, Catherine
Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly.
594
00:46:03,697 --> 00:46:06,099
(tense music)
595
00:46:11,672 --> 00:46:13,907
Nichols' throat had been cut.
596
00:46:13,940 --> 00:46:15,509
Her lower abdomen ripped open.
597
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:21,782
Chapman's throat cut.
598
00:46:21,815 --> 00:46:24,985
Her abdomen slashed
open and uterus removed.
599
00:46:31,324 --> 00:46:33,927
Stride and Eddowes were similar.
600
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:35,295
A clear cut to the throat.
601
00:46:36,763 --> 00:46:39,933
Stride's body had no
mutilations to the abdomen
602
00:46:39,966 --> 00:46:43,336
leading some to claim the
Ripper had been interrupted.
603
00:46:49,209 --> 00:46:52,012
Witnesses all gave
conflicting accounts
604
00:46:52,045 --> 00:46:54,515
of a man they thought
they had seen.
605
00:46:54,548 --> 00:46:59,553
Smart, shabby, fair,
dark nobody knew.
606
00:47:00,821 --> 00:47:02,288
In fact one theory
claims that there
607
00:47:02,322 --> 00:47:04,625
never was a single
Jack The Ripper.
608
00:47:11,698 --> 00:47:13,834
Eddowes body was the same,
609
00:47:13,867 --> 00:47:15,936
throat cut, abdomen ripped open.
610
00:47:15,969 --> 00:47:19,506
Her left kidney and most
of her uterus removed.
611
00:47:19,540 --> 00:47:23,944
Graffiti found nearby seemed
to implicate the Jews.
612
00:47:23,977 --> 00:47:25,846
Fearing anti‐Semitic riots,
613
00:47:25,879 --> 00:47:27,714
the police had it washed away.
614
00:47:34,655 --> 00:47:36,790
Kelly's body was found in bed.
615
00:47:36,823 --> 00:47:39,125
The throat cut down the spine
616
00:47:39,159 --> 00:47:41,895
and the abdomen emptied
and the heart missing.
617
00:47:50,236 --> 00:47:52,873
All these murders
happened at night.
618
00:47:52,906 --> 00:47:56,176
The mutilations seem to
have been getting worse.
619
00:48:05,118 --> 00:48:07,387
Although Kelly is
considered by many
620
00:48:07,420 --> 00:48:10,256
to have been Jack's
final victim ,
621
00:48:10,290 --> 00:48:13,727
there are others who
believe he continued.
622
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,830
These later murders
were all record.
623
00:48:16,863 --> 00:48:20,033
These include decapitations,
624
00:48:20,066 --> 00:48:23,737
torsos ripped open and
more gruesome atrocities.
625
00:48:31,878 --> 00:48:34,214
The Pinchin Street
torso for instance
626
00:48:34,247 --> 00:48:39,052
was headless and legless and
found beneath a railway arch.
627
00:48:39,085 --> 00:48:40,386
She was never identified.
628
00:48:47,427 --> 00:48:49,863
Vigilantes started
to roam the streets
629
00:48:49,896 --> 00:48:53,700
because quite simply the
police were dumbfounded.
630
00:48:53,734 --> 00:48:56,236
A great many were suspected.
631
00:48:56,269 --> 00:48:58,905
Butchers, surgeons, doctors,
632
00:48:58,939 --> 00:49:01,675
and even occult ritual
practices were blamed.
633
00:49:07,981 --> 00:49:11,918
A report from Inspector
Swanson to the home office
634
00:49:11,952 --> 00:49:16,590
confirms that 76 butchers
and slaughters were visited
635
00:49:16,623 --> 00:49:20,060
and that the inquiry
encompassed all their employees
636
00:49:20,093 --> 00:49:21,662
for the previous six months.
637
00:49:30,203 --> 00:49:32,272
Even the Queen herself
638
00:49:32,305 --> 00:49:34,440
thought the murders
pointed to a butcher.
639
00:49:39,045 --> 00:49:41,481
Jack The Ripper is
in fact the earliest
640
00:49:41,515 --> 00:49:44,084
police profiling on record.
641
00:49:44,117 --> 00:49:47,688
Police surgeon Thomas Bond
investigated the process
642
00:49:47,721 --> 00:49:49,990
and surgical skill
of the Ripper.
643
00:49:50,023 --> 00:49:53,794
He wrote, "All five
murders no doubt
644
00:49:53,827 --> 00:49:56,296
"were committed
by the same hand.
645
00:49:56,329 --> 00:49:58,665
"In the first four
the throats appear
646
00:49:58,699 --> 00:50:01,835
"to have been cut
from left to right.
647
00:50:01,868 --> 00:50:05,371
"In the last case, owing
to the extensive mutilation
648
00:50:05,405 --> 00:50:07,941
"it is impossible to
say in what direction
649
00:50:07,974 --> 00:50:11,477
"the fatal cut was
made but arterial blood
650
00:50:11,512 --> 00:50:14,548
"was found on the wall in
splashes close to where
651
00:50:14,581 --> 00:50:17,150
"the woman's head
must have been lying.
652
00:50:18,084 --> 00:50:20,987
"All the circumstances
surrounding the murders
653
00:50:21,021 --> 00:50:24,725
"lead me to form the
opinion that the woman
654
00:50:24,758 --> 00:50:27,293
"must have been lying
down when murdered,
655
00:50:27,327 --> 00:50:30,363
"and in every case the
throat was first cut."
656
00:50:31,565 --> 00:50:34,200
Bond refused to
accept that the Ripper
657
00:50:34,234 --> 00:50:36,970
had descent surgical knowledge.
658
00:50:37,003 --> 00:50:40,040
(dramatic music)
659
00:50:42,108 --> 00:50:44,778
Holmes would have had
from his training.
660
00:50:46,012 --> 00:50:48,515
He believed that Jack
was a solitary man
661
00:50:48,549 --> 00:50:52,352
who had periodical attacks of
homicidal and erotic mania.
662
00:50:53,854 --> 00:50:56,990
His attacks may have
derived from a revengeful
663
00:50:57,023 --> 00:50:59,993
or brooding
condition of the mind
664
00:51:00,026 --> 00:51:03,897
or that religious mania may
have been the original disease,
665
00:51:03,930 --> 00:51:07,233
which I don't not think
either hypothesis is likely.
666
00:51:08,101 --> 00:51:11,137
(dramatic music)
667
00:51:14,140 --> 00:51:16,409
Soon psychologies
believe that the
668
00:51:16,442 --> 00:51:20,046
penetration of the
victims with the knife
669
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,750
leaving them on display in
sexually degrading positions
670
00:51:23,784 --> 00:51:27,187
with the wounds exposed
indicated that Jack
671
00:51:27,220 --> 00:51:30,624
derived sexual pleasure
from the attacks.
672
00:51:30,657 --> 00:51:33,760
It is true that the
majority of the poor victims
673
00:51:33,794 --> 00:51:38,431
that succumbed to the brutality
of H. H. Holmes were women
674
00:51:38,464 --> 00:51:41,034
just as in the case of Jack.
675
00:51:41,067 --> 00:51:44,705
(dramatic music)
676
00:51:44,738 --> 00:51:47,741
Nobody knows who
Jack The Ripper was,
677
00:51:47,774 --> 00:51:51,244
and there is an almost annual
claim offered in the media.
678
00:51:52,245 --> 00:51:55,649
There are well over
100 suspects now,
679
00:51:55,682 --> 00:51:58,318
and we are still no
closer to the truth.
680
00:52:04,357 --> 00:52:05,626
But there is another theory.
681
00:52:06,693 --> 00:52:09,229
Holmes' great, great grandson
682
00:52:09,262 --> 00:52:13,099
has recently so come forth
with so‐called evidence:
683
00:52:13,133 --> 00:52:15,636
two diaries he
claims were inherited
684
00:52:15,669 --> 00:52:18,238
from his great,
great grandfather.
685
00:52:18,271 --> 00:52:23,276
Experts, who we do not know,
analyzed the handwriting
686
00:52:24,210 --> 00:52:25,612
and concluded that
they were indeed
687
00:52:25,646 --> 00:52:28,515
written by the devil
incarnate himself.
688
00:52:33,153 --> 00:52:35,922
It details several
of his murders
689
00:52:35,956 --> 00:52:40,694
and a tale about how he was
raped as a child by a priest.
690
00:52:40,727 --> 00:52:44,798
It also claims that he
was never in fact hanged.
691
00:52:44,831 --> 00:52:47,701
That he staged
his own execution.
692
00:52:47,734 --> 00:52:52,105
Of course we now know that
he was hung and buried,
693
00:52:52,138 --> 00:52:56,142
and so this piece of
evidence is in fact not true.
694
00:53:01,247 --> 00:53:05,051
We also know that Holmes was
the world's biggest liar.
695
00:53:06,186 --> 00:53:07,688
The diary states that Holmes
696
00:53:07,721 --> 00:53:09,823
knew the identity
of Jack The Ripper.
697
00:53:10,991 --> 00:53:12,759
What is the problem
here is simple.
698
00:53:14,027 --> 00:53:16,229
That this statement
is being over‐egged
699
00:53:16,262 --> 00:53:19,199
to reveal that Holmes
was Jack the Ripper
700
00:53:19,232 --> 00:53:21,167
and that he didn't die.
701
00:53:21,201 --> 00:53:24,705
We are being asked to believe
the words of a dead con man.
702
00:53:30,511 --> 00:53:33,747
We are also, with
next to no evidence
703
00:53:33,780 --> 00:53:35,916
being asked to
believe that Holmes
704
00:53:35,949 --> 00:53:39,185
was in London during
the Whitechapel murders.
705
00:53:39,219 --> 00:53:42,689
The diary describes them
as training sessions.
706
00:53:42,723 --> 00:53:45,526
But it could also be the
ramblings of an egotist.
707
00:53:47,093 --> 00:53:50,230
Yet, Holmes can be shown to
have committed fraud in the
708
00:53:50,263 --> 00:53:54,568
United States at the time of
most of the Ripper murders.
709
00:53:56,469 --> 00:53:59,305
(gentle music)
710
00:54:03,276 --> 00:54:07,013
In fact, Holmes
apparently had a trainee
711
00:54:07,047 --> 00:54:10,350
who was instructed to carry
out murders on prostitutes
712
00:54:10,383 --> 00:54:11,785
and to mutilate their bodies.
713
00:54:12,619 --> 00:54:14,955
Why would Holmes do this?
714
00:54:14,988 --> 00:54:19,259
Apparently to distract the
world from his own barbarism.
715
00:54:19,292 --> 00:54:21,728
Is this stretching the
imagination too far?
716
00:54:26,733 --> 00:54:30,136
While it is a wonderful
story that catches headlines,
717
00:54:30,170 --> 00:54:33,039
it is in fact as
ridiculous as Robin Hood
718
00:54:33,073 --> 00:54:35,876
having popped over the pond
to help the poor English
719
00:54:35,909 --> 00:54:39,412
before returning to America
to become Abraham Lincoln.
720
00:54:43,850 --> 00:54:46,987
The problem is that
Holmes was a massive liar,
721
00:54:47,020 --> 00:54:50,123
and nothing in his
diaries can be trusted.
722
00:54:50,156 --> 00:54:53,259
So no matter how logical
some of it may sound,
723
00:54:53,293 --> 00:54:56,597
it is being manipulated
to sell books.
724
00:54:56,630 --> 00:55:00,400
Indeed the author of
this new theory himself
725
00:55:00,433 --> 00:55:04,871
describes his own visions
of the ghost of Holmes.
726
00:55:04,905 --> 00:55:07,407
Alarm bells should ring.
727
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,476
(dramatic music)
728
00:55:13,780 --> 00:55:16,249
True hardened Ripperologists
729
00:55:16,282 --> 00:55:19,686
could literally
rip the story apart
730
00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:22,956
from dates, methods, and motives
731
00:55:22,989 --> 00:55:26,527
to the sheer fantasist
Holmes himself
732
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,295
and it seems
subsequent believers.
733
00:55:34,334 --> 00:55:37,270
It was finally killed
with the discovery
734
00:55:37,303 --> 00:55:40,240
that Holmes was in fact
executed and buried.
735
00:55:45,311 --> 00:55:47,981
The Ripper murders
were not as is commonly
736
00:55:48,014 --> 00:55:49,716
and falsely believed
737
00:55:49,750 --> 00:55:53,286
precise murders carried
out by a surgeon.
738
00:55:53,319 --> 00:55:56,322
They were frenzied and
no better than a butcher.
739
00:56:03,930 --> 00:56:06,466
All the evidence proves this.
740
00:56:06,499 --> 00:56:09,202
The Ripper went
out for his kill.
741
00:56:09,235 --> 00:56:10,937
He stalked the streets.
742
00:56:17,878 --> 00:56:20,814
Holmes lured his victims.
743
00:56:20,847 --> 00:56:22,583
He didn't stalk.
744
00:56:22,616 --> 00:56:24,918
He was precise with his murders.
745
00:56:24,951 --> 00:56:26,352
He took his time over them.
746
00:56:27,888 --> 00:56:30,924
Paper evidence proves that
Holmes is carrying out fraud
747
00:56:30,957 --> 00:56:34,027
and building his castle
in the United States
748
00:56:34,060 --> 00:56:35,796
at the time of the
Ripper murders.
749
00:56:42,235 --> 00:56:44,538
There are a lot of
claims being made
750
00:56:44,571 --> 00:56:48,842
that there was no evidence
of Holmes in Chicago in 1888.
751
00:56:48,875 --> 00:56:50,443
But they are simply not true.
752
00:56:51,712 --> 00:56:55,015
It is also claimed that
the Ripper's handwriting
753
00:56:55,048 --> 00:56:58,919
was proven to be the same as
the handwriting of Holmes.
754
00:56:58,952 --> 00:57:03,657
Again not true because
there are no proven records
755
00:57:03,690 --> 00:57:06,092
of the handwriting
of Jack The Ripper.
756
00:57:10,964 --> 00:57:14,100
There are dozens of
different examples
757
00:57:14,134 --> 00:57:16,302
and none of them are proven.
758
00:57:16,336 --> 00:57:19,640
Indeed the whole Holmes' story
759
00:57:19,673 --> 00:57:23,844
has and is becoming a
new fantasy in the media.
760
00:57:29,449 --> 00:57:31,952
It seems to have been this way
761
00:57:31,985 --> 00:57:35,121
since the first news stories
about the Murder Castle.
762
00:57:40,026 --> 00:57:42,629
There have been dozens
of books on the subject,
763
00:57:42,663 --> 00:57:45,198
and they all seem to
contradict each other.
764
00:57:46,332 --> 00:57:48,569
There have been
copious documentaries,
765
00:57:48,602 --> 00:57:52,673
TV plays, theater
productions, and movies.
766
00:57:52,706 --> 00:57:54,841
There has even been an opera.
767
00:57:59,980 --> 00:58:04,217
We began this investigation
in an attempt to be forensic
768
00:58:04,250 --> 00:58:06,486
to analyze the mind of the man
769
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:08,855
through his actions and deeds.
770
00:58:08,889 --> 00:58:11,157
We have discovered that his life
771
00:58:11,191 --> 00:58:13,894
was one very big lie
from beginning to end,
772
00:58:21,535 --> 00:58:25,205
and the lies continue
even after his death.
773
00:58:25,238 --> 00:58:28,041
(dramatic music)
774
00:58:30,511 --> 00:58:32,478
Was he really bullied in school
775
00:58:32,513 --> 00:58:35,348
and forced to stand
before a skeleton?
776
00:58:35,381 --> 00:58:37,984
This it is claimed
was the reason
777
00:58:38,018 --> 00:58:40,654
for his fascination
with cadavers.
778
00:58:40,687 --> 00:58:44,324
Problem is we have only
his word on this tall tale.
779
00:58:45,559 --> 00:58:48,929
The facts we have reveal he
was born into an ordinary
780
00:58:48,962 --> 00:58:52,533
hard working Methodist family
of farmers nothing more.
781
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,510
We do know that his
fascination with cadavers
782
00:59:03,544 --> 00:59:07,548
seems to have begun
just prior to university
783
00:59:07,581 --> 00:59:10,116
and it was there that
his ability to use
784
00:59:10,150 --> 00:59:13,353
the corpses as methods
of making money began.
785
00:59:20,527 --> 00:59:23,830
Somewhere his moral
compass went wrong
786
00:59:23,864 --> 00:59:26,700
and started pointing
in every direction.
787
00:59:33,507 --> 00:59:36,176
It is difficult to know where
788
00:59:36,209 --> 00:59:40,246
but sometimes just the
simple necessity to survive
789
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,716
can cause humans to
do terrible things.
790
00:59:49,856 --> 00:59:54,861
When those crimes have proven
to work and nobody's any wiser
791
00:59:56,362 --> 00:59:59,465
then the temptation to proceed
to up the game increases.
792
01:00:03,970 --> 01:00:07,841
Could it simply be that
Holmes was a opportunist
793
01:00:07,874 --> 01:00:10,076
who kept taking the risks
794
01:00:10,110 --> 01:00:12,646
until the final one
was one too many?
795
01:00:17,784 --> 01:00:19,953
It is a pattern in crime.
796
01:00:19,986 --> 01:00:22,889
It is also a pattern
with psychotics
797
01:00:22,923 --> 01:00:25,425
that they secretly
wish to be caught,
798
01:00:25,458 --> 01:00:27,761
to be known, to be famous.
799
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:35,769
He definitely had little empathy
800
01:00:35,802 --> 01:00:38,138
for his fellow human beings.
801
01:00:38,171 --> 01:00:41,575
He mimicked it because he
was an excellent con man.
802
01:00:42,609 --> 01:00:45,712
Psychotic people are
very often believed
803
01:00:45,746 --> 01:00:48,849
to be friendly,
intelligent, and methodical.
804
01:00:53,019 --> 01:00:55,355
Holmes has all those traits.
805
01:00:56,657 --> 01:00:59,893
His methods of making
money was so well planned
806
01:00:59,926 --> 01:01:03,664
that he constructed a building
to extract money and bodies.
807
01:01:03,697 --> 01:01:06,567
He had no compassion
for the people.
808
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:08,769
It was a challenge to
his psychotic mind.
809
01:01:13,607 --> 01:01:18,311
His building had 51 doorways
that opened unto brick walls,
810
01:01:18,344 --> 01:01:22,616
100 rooms without windows,
stairs that led to nowhere,
811
01:01:22,649 --> 01:01:25,952
chutes for bodies, gas
holes, secret passageways
812
01:01:25,986 --> 01:01:27,954
and a huge incinerator.
813
01:01:27,988 --> 01:01:31,357
It was planned and
executed very well.
814
01:01:31,391 --> 01:01:36,296
It was a castle of fantasy
for a psychotic fantasist.
815
01:01:36,329 --> 01:01:39,132
(dramatic music)
816
01:01:44,070 --> 01:01:46,139
It was a mirror of his own mind.
817
01:01:53,346 --> 01:01:57,450
The true psychological
analysis of H. H. Holmes
818
01:01:57,483 --> 01:01:59,720
does not come from his lies
819
01:01:59,753 --> 01:02:02,989
but from the bricks and
mortar of the Murder Castle.
820
01:02:03,023 --> 01:02:04,725
It reflects him.
821
01:02:11,064 --> 01:02:16,069
During his confession in
Chicago in 1896 he said,
822
01:02:17,003 --> 01:02:19,740
"I was born with
the devil in me.
823
01:02:19,773 --> 01:02:23,209
"I could not help the
fact that I was a murderer
824
01:02:23,243 --> 01:02:27,814
"no more than a poet can
help the inspiration to sing.
825
01:02:27,848 --> 01:02:30,050
"I was born with the evil one
826
01:02:30,083 --> 01:02:33,486
"standing as my
sponsor beside the bed
827
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:36,189
"where I was ushered
into the world
828
01:02:36,222 --> 01:02:38,859
"and he has been with me since."
829
01:02:40,193 --> 01:02:42,963
(dramatic music)
830
01:02:47,233 --> 01:02:50,103
We cannot believe
his confessions.
831
01:02:50,136 --> 01:02:53,406
We cannot believe
his so‐called diaries
832
01:02:53,439 --> 01:02:55,542
if indeed they are real.
833
01:02:55,576 --> 01:02:58,712
We can only believe
the evidence.
834
01:02:58,745 --> 01:03:01,548
Holmes was a bigamist, fact.
835
01:03:01,582 --> 01:03:04,785
He was a superb con man, fact.
836
01:03:04,818 --> 01:03:07,788
He was a serial killer, fact.
837
01:03:07,821 --> 01:03:11,257
He was Jack The Ripper,
extremely doubtful.
838
01:03:20,601 --> 01:03:23,770
In the 21st Century
nothing has changed
839
01:03:23,804 --> 01:03:28,041
from the 19th Century when
his evil deeds emerged.
840
01:03:28,074 --> 01:03:30,577
Within his own
lifetime people were
841
01:03:30,611 --> 01:03:33,714
making up tales about
him and his life.
842
01:03:33,747 --> 01:03:38,251
In subsequent generations
those lies have been spread
843
01:03:38,284 --> 01:03:41,855
altered, improved
upon, and regurgitated.
844
01:03:46,927 --> 01:03:49,796
Just because his
words are spoken
845
01:03:49,830 --> 01:03:52,098
it does not make them truth.
846
01:03:52,132 --> 01:03:54,234
Just because they are repeated
847
01:03:54,267 --> 01:03:56,803
it does not make them gospel.
848
01:03:56,837 --> 01:04:00,607
Just because they are turned
into documentaries and movies
849
01:04:00,641 --> 01:04:02,943
it does not make
them gospel truth.
850
01:04:08,682 --> 01:04:10,784
The facts are the facts.
851
01:04:10,817 --> 01:04:13,086
He was an egotistical liar
852
01:04:13,119 --> 01:04:16,523
who believed he was superior
to the rest of mankind
853
01:04:23,329 --> 01:04:26,166
just as is the case
with the vast majority
854
01:04:26,199 --> 01:04:29,502
of serial killers
modern and ancient.
855
01:04:35,709 --> 01:04:38,111
We place them on
the silver screen
856
01:04:38,144 --> 01:04:42,448
and make icons out of them
and their Chinese whispers.
857
01:04:42,482 --> 01:04:45,852
He was evil but
he was not Satan.
858
01:04:45,886 --> 01:04:47,854
He was mentally deranged.
859
01:04:47,888 --> 01:04:50,456
But he was not Jack The Ripper.
860
01:04:50,490 --> 01:04:53,727
That story is yet
to be revealed,
861
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:55,996
and it will be an eye opener.
862
01:05:01,401 --> 01:05:04,170
(dramatic music)
863
01:05:14,180 --> 01:05:16,850
(dramatic tone)
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