Frank Geyer’s memoir is an indispensable primary source for anyone interested in the Holmes case. Having personally worked with the PDF version of this book, I’m sure a great deal of manual effort went into creating this ebook version and the price is well worth it.
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Detective Frank Geyer
Frank Geyer was an American police detective from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for his investigation of H. H. Holmes, one of America's first serial killers. Geyer was a long time city employee of the Philadelphia Police Department
In 1894 he was assigned to investigate the Holmes-Pitezel Case.
He published the story in his book The Holmes-Pitezel Case: a history of the greatest crime of the century and of the search for the missing Pitezel children.
Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H. Holmes was America's First Documented Serial Killer
The crimes of H.H. Holmes
Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H. Holmes, was a con artist, a bigamist and was one of America's first serial killers.
Sometimes referred to as the 'Beast of Chicago,' Holmes is believed to have killed somewhere between 20 and 200 people, including men, women and children. He killed many of his victims in a specially constructed home, which was later nicknamed the "Murder Castle." Apprehended in 1894, Holmes was hanged for his crimes two years later, but was only convicted for the murder of his friend and business partner, .
1885 - Holmes moved to Chicago, Illinois. Using his now infamous alias, Dr. Henry H. Holmes, through nefarious means, he took over a pharmacy.
Holmes had a three-story building constructed nearby vacant lot, creating an elaborate house of horrors.
1893 Columbian Exposition - Holmes opened up his home as a hotel for visitors. Unfortunately, many guests did not survive in what became known as the "Murder Castle." Many of these victims — no one knows for certain the total number — were women who were seduced, swindled and then killed. Holmes had a habit of getting engaged to a woman, only for his fiancée to suddenly "disappear." Other victims were lured there by the offer of employment.
Built to entrap his victims - The Murder Castle
In 1894, some police officers inspected the hotel while Holmes was out. During the inspection, they found rooms with hinged walls and false partitions, rooms linked with secret passageways, and even airtight rooms that were connected to pipelines filled with gas, which Holmes used as gas chambers.
Holmes would use chutes to deliver the bodies to the basement, and once there, he made use of surgical tables and an array of medical tools to dissect them before selling their organs and bones on the black market and to medical institutions.
The hotel was gutted by a fire started by an unknown arsonist shortly after Holmes was arrested but was largely rebuilt and used as a post office until 1938.
An Insatiable Thirst for Murder: Serial Killer Henry Holmes - The Novel
An Insatiable Thirst for Murder: Serial Killer Henry Holmes - The Novel, contains the shocking dramatizations of real events carried out by the serial killer, Henry Howard Holmes.
"Insightful thoughts of some characters during their impending death make it too easy to identify with the horror of what they experienced. By the time I got to the end of some parts, I was out of breath, literally!"
"This well researched dramatization of the Chicago serial killer, Henry Holmes, because it's based on actual events, isn't something that's always easily digestible; it sits in your gut and gnaws at your insides. It becomes part of your subconscious. You think of it long after you have laid the book aside. No punches are pulled to describe the horrendous crimes carried out by this cold hearted killer."
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