S9 Ep4: Serial Killer H.H. Holmes
Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast
Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins
4.5 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Step inside the jury box and don't miss an episode of the new series of the |
| 0:05.0 | number one true crime podcast, The Storyteller Naked Villainy. Two decades on |
| 0:10.8 | from confronting evil. Did you kill your ex-wife, Brenda Page? Evil has been |
| 0:16.5 | confronted by the law. Did you kill her? No. For the first time in UK history |
| 0:22.6 | you'll hear the full murder trial. I understand that you've reached about it. The |
| 0:27.7 | Storyteller Naked Villainy out now. |
| 1:28.7 | Of course, no one in the district attorney's office believed a word that came out of Holmes' |
| 1:34.2 | mouth, so the investigation to find the children continued in earnest. It was going to be like |
| 1:40.4 | finding a needle in a haystack, but they were determined. At the same time, the news of the |
| 1:46.0 | missing sisters Anna and Minnie Williams raised its head. These sisters had last been seen with |
| 1:52.8 | Holmes, owned land in Fort Worth, Texas, and had disappeared without a trace. |
| 1:58.7 | Even more of a coincidence was that the land had been conveyed to Benton T. Lyman, |
| 2:04.0 | an alias of Benjamin F. Petzel. They also discovered that the land was now in the hands and |
| 2:10.9 | control of Holmes. Holmes was questioned about the sisters, and according to Geier's book, |
| 2:18.8 | Holmes admitted his intimacy with these women and told a startling story of the Holmes' type, |
| 2:25.2 | describing his return one night to the home of the William sisters. Of his discovery that Minnie |
| 2:31.5 | in a moment of rage had killed Nettie and how he had shielded the former by taking Nettie's body, |
| 2:37.6 | how on the lake had Chicago and quietly sinking it. The police weren't sure. They didn't believe |
| 2:45.0 | Holmes' story, but they weren't sure he had murdered them either. Maybe the children were |
| 2:50.3 | with Minnie, after all. It was time to dig deeper. The detectives needed to go back through all |
| 2:56.6 | the evidence for new leads. This is what they found. When Holmes was arrested, he was in possession |
| 3:03.3 | of a ten box containing title and other papers and private letters. The ten also contained |
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