Listen to the audio above; or check out the podcast on archive.org or iTunes! Or check out the video version on youtube. My massive new book, HH HOLMES: THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE WHITE CITY DEVIL is out now from Skyhorse Publishing, on the heels of starred reviews in Booklist and Library Journal! In Read More…
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Podcast: Thomas Neill Cream – Antique Serial Killer
Listen in above or on iTunes or archive.org! A few months ago I had to take a quick trip to Madison, WI and made a side trip along the way to Garden Prairie, IL, searching for the grave of Daniel Stott, which lies in a quiet little graveyard surrounded by farmland. Most of the gravestones there are faded Read More…
Did Dr. Thomas Neill Cream Kill Alice Montgomery?
Could a Chicago mystery from 1881 have been the work of one of our early serial killers? (See an update from 2017 at the bottom of the post!) Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. On April 9, 1881, 22 year old Alice Montgomery checked into a room at the Sheldon House, a west loop-area hotel on West Read More…
Chicago Serial Killers: Dr. Thomas Neil Cream
The most commonphoto of Dr. Cream. H.H. Holmes is often advertised as “America’s First Serial Killer.” Really, though, he wasn’t even the first one in Chicago – or the only Chicagoan whose name has been floated as a suspect for the true identity of London’s “Jack the Ripper.” Long before anyone seriously* thought to connect Read More…
Murder Castle of HH Holmes Ebook EXPANDED!
Our first ebook, THE MURDER CASTLE OF HH HOLMES, has now been expanded to a FULL LENGTH book. Re-organized with tons of new info, new diagrams, and more to tell a more complete picture of the famous “castle” through eyewitness accounts from people lived and worked in the building. Now over 55,000 words to tell Read More…