The Devil in the White City: H.H. Holmes and America’s First Serial Killer Hotel

In the shadow of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago—a glittering celebration of human achievement that drew 27 million visitors—stood a building that locals would come to call the “Murder Castle.” Within its walls, a charming pharmacist named Dr. H.H. Holmes was constructing something far darker than anyone could imagine: a three-story hotel specifically … Read more