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CHICAGO — The remains of notorious Chicago serial killer H.H. Holmes are set to be exhumed to try to solve a 120-year-old mystery: Did the “Devil in the White City” fake his own execution?
History tells us that Holmes — whose macabre murder spree during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was detailed in Erik Larson’s 2003 best-seller “The Devil in the White City” — was hanged in Philadelphia in 1896 and buried at nearby Holy Cross Cemetery.
But Holmes, whose birth name was Herman Mudgett, was long rumored to have applied his infamous skills of deceit to his own fate, and one legend has it that he paid off jail guards to hang a cadaver in his place so he could escape to South America.
The rest of the storyat the following link: Is 'Devil in White City' buried in tomb? Remains to be unearthed to find out
History tells us that Holmes — whose macabre murder spree during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was detailed in Erik Larson’s 2003 best-seller “The Devil in the White City” — was hanged in Philadelphia in 1896 and buried at nearby Holy Cross Cemetery.
But Holmes, whose birth name was Herman Mudgett, was long rumored to have applied his infamous skills of deceit to his own fate, and one legend has it that he paid off jail guards to hang a cadaver in his place so he could escape to South America.
The rest of the storyat the following link: Is 'Devil in White City' buried in tomb? Remains to be unearthed to find out