He Sold Victims’ Bodies To Medical Schools
Perhaps the most chilling evidence of Holmes’ calculated and nonchalant approach to the murder of other human souls was one of his chosen methods of body disposal: charity. One of his suspected first victims was a woman named Julia Conner. She was married to a man who worked for Holmes, and stood a staggering near six feet tall. Right around the time Julia disappeared, Holmes reportedly paid a man to flay an unusually tall, female corpse and convert it into an articulated skeleton for medical school use. That was probably just like, a really tall old woman who died happily in her sleep surrounded by loved ones, right? Again, when there’s a rash of disappearances, how is no one interviewing “the guy who has suddenly come into a wealth of corpses”?
I hope reading these facts about H. H. Holmes has given you two things: perspective on one of America’s first serial killers, and an understanding of how easy it was to murder people for a very long time. I mean, this makes Elliott Stabler look like Sherlock Holmes.
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