The Holmes-Pitezel

By Frank P. Geyer,

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Full Title:The Holmes-Pitezel Case A History of The Greatest Crime of The Century and of The Search for The Missing Pitezel Children

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Geyer describes the painstaking work he did over two months in 1895 as the lone detective on a highly challenging case. He’d recently lost his wife and daughter in a fire, but he set out to find the missing children of Benjamin Pitezel, a man just murdered by the notorious serial killer, H. H. Holmes. The difficulty of this investigation lay not just in the killer’s clever maneuvers but also in the many places he’d taken the children and the different names he’d adopted to accomplish his dirty deeds. Holmes might have killed and discarded the children anywhere along his…

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