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Episode 51 - H.H. Holmes: If Charles Ponzi killed people

Oral Presentations

Chris Wood

Science, Comedy, Education

5.0868 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Told a girlfriend 9 years ago I was gonna read The Devil In The White City, "Soon," just under a decade later I audio booked it for an electronic book report about just the serial killer parts.

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0:00.0

And the Ladies and gentlemen welcome to oral presentations episode 51 h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h hm I think this is our first full-on murderer. Just a serial killing dingbat.

0:37.6

All the information from this is going to come from the book Devil in the White City by a

0:42.4

dude named Eric Larson.

0:45.0

I dated a girl 10 years, 9 years ago, 8, 10, like a decade.

0:50.0

Who was reading this book, we were living living together and she was like you should

0:54.6

read this and I was like yeah I'll read that so this is uh I didn't read the book I

0:59.5

audio booked it for this but it took a decade you know I think that still counts as a lie I told

1:06.2

I was gonna read it but you know I audio book I don't know if that counts or not I

1:11.3

don't know also if you're gonna. I don't know. Also if you're going to audiobook it

1:13.1

careful because there's two different versions on iTunes there's one that's only like a third of the book

1:18.5

read the reviews if you're gonna get Devil in the White City audio book. It's pretty good book

1:25.4

but it's it covers the murders of H.H. Holmes. If you don't know who he is, he's I think people call him America's first

1:28.6

serial killer. This dude, I mean, but he does he has a lot of Charles Ponzi in him so I like the story and it's also a 10 year old half lie

1:38.0

That I got a kind of like yeah finally squared that a little bit

1:42.2

So we're gonna cover h H. H. Holmes. I like the story.

1:46.0

There's no way this guy could have gotten away with this today. There's too many, this guy is Michael

1:50.6

LuS. This guy, that's why he gets caught. He just leaves

1:53.2

fucking loose ends everywhere. If the internet, this couldn't be done. If there was, if you

1:58.2

had good telephones, this couldn't have gotten done, in my opinion. I think it's just all paperwork and nobody talking to each other.

2:04.7

Also, H. H. Holmes did most of his killing during this 400 year Columbus Fair anniversary.

2:11.1

Huge thing that happened in Chicago.

2:14.4

That's, again, if you're going to read Devil in the White City,

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