- Doctors Victims
On April 9, 1896, just weeks before his execution, H.H. Holmes signed a statement of gruesome detail telling how he had murdered 27 people. He retracted the confession just before his hanging May 7, saying he killed only two women. This is a partial ...
http://www.s-t.com/daily/05-96/05-26-96/m02wn212.htm
| | - The bad doctor
The Ripper was a sexual sadist, a stalker who more directly reflects the anxieties of our age, according to Mr. Schechter. Dr. Holmes was a product of The Gilded Age, a late 19thcentury period of feverish enterprise and gaudy excess and Chicago was ...
http://www.s-t.com/daily/05-96/05-26-96/m02wn211.htm
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