The many wives of H.H. Holmes...
The Pitezel Family Victims
The "Murder Castle" then and now
Something we discussed and a subject Blondie found especially interesting was the idea that Holmes was Jack the Ripper. We're not sure whether that was the case or not but this comparison between Holmes and the FBI's rendering of what they think the Ripper looked like is kind of interesting...
While the vast majority of the information turned out to be completely fabricated, the newspapers gave the people what they wanted and printed wild stories about the "Murder Castle".
These included fictional blueprints like this one...
You're not going to believe this Roadies but The Captain was mistaken. Daniel M'Naghten was acquitted!
On January 20, 1843 he murdered the Prime Minister's private secretary, Edward Drummond thinking that he'd shot Prime Minister Robert Peel.
He was caught right there at the scene and to make a long story short was found innocent by reason of insanity.
Alot of people think his defense came together very quickly because many powerful people in medicine and law enforcement were waiting for an opportunity to make significant changes to the laws regarding legal insanity and you can read more about his case right here.
On January 20, 1843 he murdered the Prime Minister's private secretary, Edward Drummond thinking that he'd shot Prime Minister Robert Peel.
He was caught right there at the scene and to make a long story short was found innocent by reason of insanity.
Alot of people think his defense came together very quickly because many powerful people in medicine and law enforcement were waiting for an opportunity to make significant changes to the laws regarding legal insanity and you can read more about his case right here.
It took several months to access the damage, but eventually the city of Chicago determined that the fire destroyed an area about 4 miles long and averaging 3⁄4 mile wide, encompassing an area of more than 2,000 acres.
More than 73 miles of roads, 120 miles of sidewalk, 2,000 lampposts, and 17,500 buildings were lost.
The damage was valued at about $222 million in property, which was about a third of the city's valuation in 1871.
After some calculations using various tools I’m going to tell you that comes to $5,705,545,573.77 today.
Yes, that’s 5 Trillion!
Not only is University of Michigan HH Holmes alma mater, but their Wolverines are your defending National Champion.
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