EP283: America's First Serial Killer H.H. Holmes

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Step inside the chilling world of Dr. H. H. Holmes, the suave con man, medical fraudster, and architect of America’s most infamous “Murder Castle.” In this Early Release episode, we peel back the polished veneer Holmes wore so well to expose the predator beneath. Aman who turned charm into a weapon, bodies into profit, and opportunity into terror.From his eerie medical-school schemes and corpse-insurance scams…
to the labyrinthine Englewood building designed to confuse, isolate, and kill…
to the devastating murder of Benjamin Pitezel and the cross-country hunt for his missing children…
this episode follows the full arc of a man who reinvented himself with every handshake and erased those who trusted him.Thank you to Patreon member Tiffany M. for the suggestion!!

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:21.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:33.7	Hi, I'm Shannon.
0:35.9	Hi, I'm Tanya.
0:37.0	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a hardcore true crime podcast.
0:43.3	Shannon, my love.
0:45.1	Oh, my dear heart, Tanya.
0:47.3	How are you?
0:48.7	I am good.
0:49.7	How are you?
0:51.2	I'm doing pretty good.
0:53.2	We got to make our weather report. Just a little feeling run down.
0:59.4	Still, my usual complaints, but that's not too bad to have, honestly. So, yeah, I had physical therapy
1:07.7	today, so my shoulder's a little sore. How is that going?
1:11.9	It's going good.
1:13.4	So my physical therapist is somebody I went to college with.
1:16.5	So I've known her a really long time.
1:19.0	And I told her, I said, it's starting to feel better.
1:22.7	I told her like before we started our session today, I've only gone to two.
1:26.8	Today was number three. And she's like,
1:29.2	yeah, physical therapy really works. And we were kind of laughing because it was like, this bullshit
1:33.9	works. You know what I mean? This voodoo. Yeah, this voodoo works. But it really has been feeling a lot
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