Episode 461: H.H. Holmes Part 5

<p>In the final chapter of our coverage of H.H.Holmes, we talk about the theories connecting him to Jack the Ripper, his final days on the run and a trial and execution that has gone down in history.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Thank you to Dave White for research assistance.</p><p>References</p><p>Boston Daily Globe. 1895. "At Burlington." Boston Daily Globe, August 8: 7.</p><p><br></p><p>—. 1894. "Believes husband dead." Boston Daily Globe, November 20: 1.</p><p><br></p><p>—. 1894. "Believes husband dead." Boston Daily Globe, November 20: 1.</p><p><br></p><p>—. 1895. "Hard and Selfish." Boston Daily Globe, August 7: 5.</p><p><br></p><p>—. 1894. "In the toils." Boston Daily Globe, November 18: 1.</p><p><br></p><p>—. 1895. "Mother's Love." Boston Daily Globe, August 6: 5.</p><p><br></p><p>Chicago Chronicle. 1895. "Tells of one crime." Chicago Chronicle, July 30: 2.</p><p><br></p><p>—. 1895. "Trail of the fiend." Chicago Chronicle, July 21: 1.</p><p><br></p><p>Chicago Tribune. 1894. "Spins his own web." Chacgo Tribune, November 22: 1.</p><p><br></p><p>—. 1895. "Holmes recognized in Toronto." Chcago Tribune, July 17: 12.</p><p><br></p><p>Daily Boston Globe. 1895. "Good Fisherman." Daily Boston Globe, August 9: 4.</p><p><br></p><p>Galveston Daily News. 1894. "Two Texas Girls." Galveston Daily News, November 22: 1.</p><p><br></p><p>Geyer, Frank P. 1896. The Holmes-Pitezel Case: A History of the Greatest Crime of the Century and of the Search for the Missing Pitezel Children. Philadelphia, PA: Publishers' Union.</p><p><br></p><p>Kerns, Rebecca, Tiffany Lewis, and Cailtin McClure. 2012. Herman Webster Mudgett: Dr. H.H. Holmes or Beast of Chicago. Lecture, Radford, VA: Department of Psychology, Radford University.</p><p><br></p><p>Larson, Erik. 2003. Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. New York, NY: Crown Publishers.</p><p><br></p><p>Mudgett, Herman W. 1895. Holmes' Own Story. Philadelphia, PA: Burke and McFetridge Company.</p><p><br></p><p>New York Times. 1895. "A b