{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmorbid-53aa329e.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fh-h-holmes-part-5-FDNnfSQd","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"H.H. Holmes Part 5","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/3c9c3c2a-a53f-40bd-9d24-bdb387b03fb1/63cc4f36-fd5e-4f32-82e3-a2185ea81abf/sxm-cover-morbid-3000x3000-final.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/102c550c-e760-447d-92a7-f5eab171ebb4\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"H.H. Holmes Part 5\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"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. \n\n\n\n\nThank you to Dave White for research assistance.\n\nReferences\n\nBoston Daily Globe. 1895. \"At Burlington.\" Boston Daily Globe, August 8: 7.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1894. \"Believes husband dead.\" Boston Daily Globe, November 20: 1.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1894. \"Believes husband dead.\" Boston Daily Globe, November 20: 1.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1895. \"Hard and Selfish.\" Boston Daily Globe, August 7: 5.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1894. \"In the toils.\" Boston Daily Globe, November 18: 1.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1895. \"Mother's Love.\" Boston Daily Globe, August 6: 5.\n\n\n\n\nChicago Chronicle. 1895. \"Tells of one crime.\" Chicago Chronicle, July 30: 2.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1895. \"Trail of the fiend.\" Chicago Chronicle, July 21: 1.\n\n\n\n\nChicago Tribune. 1894. \"Spins his own web.\" Chacgo Tribune, November 22: 1.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1895. \"Holmes recognized in Toronto.\" Chcago Tribune, July 17: 12.\n\n\n\n\nDaily Boston Globe. 1895. \"Good Fisherman.\" Daily Boston Globe, August 9: 4.\n\n\n\n\nGalveston Daily News. 1894. \"Two Texas Girls.\" Galveston Daily News, November 22: 1.\n\n\n\n\nGeyer, 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.\n\n\n\n\nKerns, 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.\n\n\n\n\nLarson, Erik. 2003. Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. New York, NY: Crown Publishers.\n\n\n\n\nMudgett, Herman W. 1895. Holmes' Own Story. Philadelphia, PA: Burke and McFetridge Company.\n\n\n\n\nNew York Times. 1895. \"A boy Holmes' first victim.\" New York Times, July 31: 3.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1896. \"Appeal of murderer Holmes.\" New York Times, February 4: 8.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1895. \"Claims an alibi.\" New York Times, July 17: 1.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1896. \"Holmes cool to the end.\" New York Times, May 8: 1.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1895. \"Holmes enters a plea of guilty.\" New York Times, May 29: 1.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1896. \"Holmes in a ton of cement.\" New York Times, May 9: 1.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1895. \"Holmes sentenced to die.\" New York Times, December 1: 13.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1894. \"May be charged with murder.\" New York Times, November 19: 2.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1895. \"The Williams girls' fate.\" New York Times, July 21: 10.\n\n\n\n\nPhiladelphia Inquirer. 1894. \"Cause of death a mystery.\" Philadelphia Inquirer, September 6: 6.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1896. \"Holmes' chronology.\" Philadelphia Inquirer, April 12: 18.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1896. \"Holmes Confesses 27 murders.\" Philadelphia Inquirer, April 26: 1.\n\n\n\n\nPhiladelphia Times. 1894. \"All looking for Pitezel.\" Philadelphia Times, November 21: 1.\n\n\n\n\n—. 1894. \"Perry's Peculiar Death.\" Philadelphia Times, September 5: 3.\n\n\n\n\nSelzer, Adam. 2017. H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil. New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing.\n\n\n\n\nSt. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1894. \"Arrested Again.\" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 29: 8."}