The Twenty-Seven Murders of Henry H Holmes, Part Four

The Twentieth and Twenty-First Victims. This is the final chapter in my critical evaluation of Holmes and his victims.       "The Williams sisters come next. .... I first met Miss Minnie R. Williams in New York in 1888, where she knew me as Edward Hatch .... Early in 1893 I was...

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The Twenty Seven Murders of Henry H. Holmes, Part Three

Part Three of Four. Continuing in my effort to compare Holmes's confessions of whom he murdered with the facts and newspaper reports of the time. The Twelfth Victim.     "The victim was a very beautiful young woman named Rosine Van Jassand, [other newspapers referred to the victim in...

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The Twenty Seven Murders of Henry H. Holmes, Part Two

On The Road and a Mysterious Death and Disappearance     In May 1886, Holmes headed to Philadelphia. He first found employment at the newly opened "State Lunatic Hospital at Norristown," still in operation today. How bad does a place have to be to spook even Holmes? "This was my first...

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