Execution
Mug shot (Murderpedia)
Holmes was eventually captured by the Pinkerton Agency for the Pitezel insurance scam. A criminal that Holmes met in jail ratted him out. The Agency started investigating Holmes and found evidence that he had murdered nine people. Holmes later confessed to killing 27 people, but his last words were, (Waterfront)
"I am not guilty of taking the lives of the Pitezel family, the three children or the father, for whose deaths I am now to be hanged. That is all I have to say.
H. H. Holmes
Newspaper clippings about Holmes' execution.
(The Dallas Daily Chronicle)
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(Daily Globe)
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