EP283: America's First Serial Killer H.H. Holmes

EP283: America's First Serial Killer H.H. Holmes

Step inside the chilling world of Dr. H. H. Holmes, the suave con man, medical fraudster, and architect of America’s most infamous “Murder Castle.” In this Early Release episode, we peel back the polished veneer Holmes wore so well to expose the predator beneath. Aman who turned charm into a weapon, bodies into profit, and opportunity into terror.From his eerie medical-school schemes and corpse-insurance scams…
to the labyrinthine Englewood building designed to confuse, isolate, and kill…
to the devastating murder of Benjamin Pitezel and the cross-country hunt for his missing children…
this episode follows the full arc of a man who reinvented himself with every handshake and erased those who trusted him.Thank you to Patreon member Tiffany M. for the suggestion!!

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EP17: Seattle's Piquerist Serial Killer

EP17: Seattle's Piquerist Serial Killer

In the early 1990's, Seattle was the scene for the new grunge wave, computer techs and also a sadistic piquerist who enjoyed murdering and staging the bodies of young women. Robert Keppler, John Dougl...

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EP16: The Happy Face Serial Killer

EP16: The Happy Face Serial Killer

In 1990, a woman confessed that she and her boyfriend raped and murdered Taunja Bennett then dumped her body along the Old Scenic Highway in Oregon. However, a long-haul trucker, Keith Jesperson, was ...

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EP13: Dean Corll- The Candy Man Serial Killer

EP13: Dean Corll- The Candy Man Serial Killer

In August 1973, unbeknownst to the City of Houston, a serial killer named Dean Corll was running wild. Between 1970 and 1973, teenage boys were disappearing from the suburbs but authorities failed to ...

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EP12: The Truth Can Hurt You

EP12: The Truth Can Hurt You

In 1991, a young woman was found savagely beaten and sexually mutilated on the side of a city road.  Her injuries were so severe that she wasn't expected to survive; however, she defied all odds and l...

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EP10: Pain is for Learning

EP10: Pain is for Learning

In the summer of 2014, the decapitated body of a male was found off the trail in a city park. Police soon discovered that the deceased young man's eight months pregnant girlfriend had been missing for...

16 Des 201943min

EP09: The Loose-Lipped Serial Killer

EP09: The Loose-Lipped Serial Killer

Charles Schmid, Jr. was a narcissistic young man living in Tucson, Arizona in the early 1960s. He had fantasies of becoming a rockstar. He wanted to see what it was like to kill and if he could murder...

9 Des 201952min

EP05: The Panty Sniffer

EP05: The Panty Sniffer

In 1986, a University of Michigan professor was found brutally murdered and raped by a sadistic necrophiliac.  Five years later, a flight attended staying overnight at the Hilton Hotel in Detroit was ...

11 Nov 201952min

EP03: The Happiest Man on Death Row

EP03: The Happiest Man on Death Row

In 1939, a young man with an IQ of 46 was executed by the State of Colorado for the attack with an ax on two young sisters resulting in the death of a 15-year-old girl. The real ax killer had attacked...

4 Nov 201945min

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