Chicago: The Darkness of H.H. Holmes
Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast
Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins
4.5 β’ 992 Ratings
ποΈ 18 May 2022
β±οΈ 25 minutes
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| 1:00.0 | I have so many questions about homes, and I'm sure you do too. |
| 1:15.0 | I have so many questions about Holmes, and I'm sure you do too. |
| 1:30.4 | So in this episode, we'll try to answer some of them. |
| 1:34.0 | Let's start with why did Holmes kill Pytzel? |
| 1:37.4 | Holmes had written to miss Pytzel from prison just before she was released, and the letter |
| 1:41.8 | included the phrase, quote, we never quarreled, while this is Holmes we're talking about. |
| 1:48.5 | So it won't come as any surprise, I'm sure, that what he wrote was pure fiction. |
| 1:54.0 | In fact the pair had argued around July 1894, just two months before Pytzel was murdered. |
| 2:01.3 | Pytzel was fed up of his life of crime with Holmes. |
| 2:04.3 | He was getting old, he was tired, and he was done with the scamming and scheming, and |
| 2:09.8 | wanted to retire to a quiet life with his family. |
| 2:13.9 | But he wasn't going to go empty handed. |
| 2:17.0 | He claimed that he had an interest in the world's fair hotel, and that property in Fort |
| 2:21.5 | Worth was actually held in his name. |
| 2:24.5 | Well okay, in the name of his alias, Benton T. Lyman, so in his head it was very simple. |
| 2:31.1 | He would get paid while he was owed, and then him, carry, and their five children would |
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