No Holmes Barred!

A new True-Crime Podcast that’s here to SLAY! From Daniel Ciarrocchi—the mind that brought you Jeopardy! Season 39, Episode 196—comes a hilarious new radio-drama podcast: the unusual tale of H.H. Holmes— America’s first serial killer. Chicago, 1893: While the world is waiting for the Fair, a different kind of architect is building his own exhibition… a MURDER CASTLE. The spectacular, sensational, tragically accurate dramady recounting the turmoil, terror, & turbulence of H.H. HOLMES’s maniacal killing spree during Chicago’s 1893 World Columbian Exposition! CHICAGO DID NOT NEED THE WORLD’S FAIR… But oh, did it ever want it. Mayhaps... the city simply needed a comeback. A Great Fire devoured it not even 20 years ago, possibly because it was hungry; Possibly because it was a fire. Mayhaps... Chicago could find a happy medium? The city could be more than a charred, desolate wasteland destroyed by the hooves of one temperamental cow: Mrs. O’Leary. But did that mean it had to construct a 600-acre venue for the largest non-warfare event in the world, and did it have to give itself a year to complete? JUNE-haps… if chaos hadn’t ensued… America’s first serial killer couldn’t have succeeded in plain sight. H.H. Holmes operated many business ventures in Englewood: a pharmacy, a jewelry store, and nonconsensual execution services. The combination of these very real happenstances results in a tale of boundless absurdity: Reassembled skeletons! Oppression! Pabst Blue Ribbon! Capitalism! Caucasians! Gumption! Buzzwords. And, of course, a horrific, somehow overlooked, operating in plain-sight M U R D E R C A S T L E