There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

Money can make people into monsters.

On January 3, 1886, a man was born who would enter a partnership with a pair of cousins,

and in their week, leave behind the bodies of over 50 individuals. So if you like your coffee hot,

but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

Herman Petrillo, born in 1890 in the Neapolitan province of Campania,

immigrated to the U.S. in 1910, and worked as a barber for a number of years.

Unfortunately, at some point, he decided that he needed more money and at a faster rate,

and thus began a lifetime of criminal activity.

It started with a slew of arson attacks and insurance fraud,

but realizing the police and insurance companies were going to start catching on, he went looking for a way to switch things up and happened to run into a

group of men selling counterfeit $5 bills for half the face value.

So intrigued by their enterprise and impressed by the quality of the bills, Herman began studying

their work and decided to start doing it for himself.

Meanwhile, his cousin, Paul Petrillo,

had also immigrated from Naples to Philadelphia that same year, and shortly thereafter, got

married and settled down with his new family. He opened a tailor shop, which quickly prospered,

but when the depression hit, he, like thousands of others,

found himself in desperate need to support his loved ones. So, to keep food on the table,

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