O T Most outrageous murderer never to be subject of a film
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World's Fair. The structure had trap doors , sound proof rooms a secure
basement/torture room and a gas fired incinerator. He was a medical
doctor who gassed and drugged associates , girlfriends and whomever then
tortured them and apparently fed some alive into the oven. Stripped the
flesh off many and sold the skeletons to medical schools. Also created
insurance fraud schemes , killed lookalikes and passed the bodies off as
the insured. Killed the real McCoy once, then his three young children.
Documented body count : nine...estimated : 30 to 200. Three different
documentaries have been on tv in the past year. A post office now
occupies the location of the " castle".
nick
Have they ever made a movie about Lord Lucan?
calvin
be executed.
william
> World's Fair.
There is a DVD documentary about Holmes. One of the first known serial
killers (as we use the term today) was known as the Servant Girl
Annihilator in Austin, TX in 1884-1885, four years before Jack the
Ripper. The "moon" lights in Austin were erected to stop the attacks.
William
www.williamahearn.com
nick
John Dean
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062790/
OK, if you're going to be picky:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116935/
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John Dean
Oxford
John Dean
> The Washington snipers, one of whom is about to
> be executed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381116/
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John Dean
Oxford
william
>
> The Servant Girl Annihilator? Best Serial Killer Name Ever.
From the pen of O. Henry no less. At least that's part of the lore of
the case. He was fascinated by the events.
William
www.williamahearn.com
tomcervo
The Kingsbury Run murderer of Cleveland--1934 to 1938, included one of
those cop-killer confrontations that never happen in real life--and
the cop was Eliot Ness. Brian Michael Bendis wrote a graphic novel,
Torso, based on it,and wrote another book, Fortune and Glory, about
his trip to Hollywood for the pitch. It includes a meeting with a
Larry Levy type who informed Bendis that Ness was out, since he was a
property belonging to (whoever made The Untouchables). Bendis informed
him that Eliot Ness was in fact an actual person, but no, he belonged
to . . .
Bill Anderson
I rented a documentary film about H. H. Holmes after I read "The Devil
in the White City," by Erik Larson, a half fascinating, half tedious
recounting of the story of Holmes (tedious) set against the incredible
tale of how the 1893 Chicago World's Fair came to be (fascinating). That
World's Fair (the "White City") is lost and gone forever, but golly I'd
like to visit it. No way, though, because there are few signs of it
still around, leaving us to envy those lucky enough to be among the
first to experience a Ferris wheel, Cracker Jacks, Aunt Jemima Syrup,
Cream of Wheat, Pabst Beer, Juicy Fruit gum and Spearmint too. (OK, not
so much envy about the PBR.) But still there's George Westinghouse's
light bulbs that used alternating current to the dismay of Thomas
Edison. And Little Egypt doing the hoochee-coochee and Buffalo Bill's
Wild West Show (outside the gates) And it seems the list of characters
and products with which we are still familiar could go on forever. I
would so much like to see a movie that recreates the 1893 Columbian
Exhibition in Chicago. But back to the subject: That documentary I
rented really sucked. If anybody ever does make a movie about the
Chicago World's Fair, please just leave out any mention of the tiresome
H.H. Holmes.
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Bill Anderson
I am the Mighty Favog
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the century amusement parks at Cony....Luna, Dreamland, Steeplechase
were apparently quite something.
Howard Brazee
Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols?
--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."
- James Madison
S D
CourTV is currently showing one of the trials of the Blacks who
kidnapped, sodomized and murdered two Whites.
calvin
nick
> Islamic terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan.
It'd be like as Muslim version of Taxi Driver. I'd pay to see that.
Michael O'Connor
in 1927?
Dave in Toronto
Yes. _BLOODLINES:LEGACY OF A LORD_ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116935/
Haven't seen it myself.
Dave in Toronto