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The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair was an influential social and cultural event that brought in visitors from all over the world to witness its elaborate attractions.
But around this time, some of the most heinous crimes were being committed by a deeply disturbed man in the White City and elsewhere.
H.H. Holmes, who is known as “America’s First Serial Killer”, was a con artist who engaged in a lengthy criminal career that involved insurance fraud, forgery, swindling, multiple bigamous marriages, horse theft, and murder. He killed many of his victims in the infamous ‘Murder Castle’, a complex labyrinth of a building that he commissioned in Chicago.
While Holmes committed most of his murders in Chicago, he also murdered a 10-year-old boy named Howard Pitezel in the Irvington neighborhood on the east side of Indianapolis in 1894.
Al Hunter from The Weekly View has been leading ghost tours in Irvington for the past 22 years. One of the main stops on the tour is the house where H.H. Holmes murdered Howard Pitezel. He joins Kendall and Casey to discuss the infamous serial killer and the gruesome murder of the 10-year-old boy on this week’s edition of True Crime Tuesday.