27: "H.H Holmes - America's First Serial Killer"

This week, Ame and Kenzie discuss the Amazon Prime documentary H.H Holmes: America's First Serial Killer. Going back to the late 1800's, we hear how this brilliant doctor, businessman, and con artist hustled money from anyone he came across. After settling into a southern suburb of Chicago, he constructs a home nicknamed by the community as "the castle". What people don't know, was that Holmes had designed his mansion with one thing in mind: Murder. A labyrinth of hallways built with the intention of disorienting his victims, torture chambers made to look like rooms for rent, greased chutes for bodies to slide down, and a crematorium in the basement were nothing short of pure evil. For years, he was able to keep up the facade with none the wiser. It seemed this handsome and sly monster would get away with it all, until the authorities finally break a case pointing towards insurance fraud and eventually Holmes meets his end in the gallows.