“Emotional and filled with unthinkable sorrow, Mrs. Pitezel had to see where Howard took his last breath—where Holmes ripped her son from her.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“Thousands of soldiers, ink barely dry on discharge papers, begged in vain to start a new campaign of revenge.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“It must have taken very careful management to have moved these three separate parties from Detroit to Toronto, without either of the three discovering either of the others, but this great expert in crime did it, and did it successfully,” Geyer later said.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“Despite a protective Geyer threatening to “break the neck of the first reporter who attempted to interview the woman,” a determined reporter caught Mrs. Pitezel on her way out of the Rossin House dining room.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“Rot! Absolute rot! Hatch was merely an alias of Holmes. He had as many as a city directory, but he used the name Hatch frequently. If Hatch did the killing, Holmes will hang for it, for Holmes and Hatch are one and the same person,' Linden said.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“No doubt about it, Holmes earned despicable nicknames such as Arch Fiend, Butcher, Modern Bluebeard, Swindler, and Moral Degenerate. Holmes was a monster in disguise as a doctor, a perfect ruse to lure his victims.”
Source: Holmes' Own Story: Confessed 27 Murders, Lied Then Died
“Holmes slept like a baby his last night on earth. After a second attempt to wake him, Holmes got up and dressed. Keeper John Henry asked Holmes how he felt. “Are you nervous?” said Keeper Henry. “Not a bit,” said Holmes. He smiled and slid his arms between the prison bars and stretched out his fingers. “Look at that,” said Holmes. His hands were steady as a rock.”
Source: Holmes' Own Story: Confessed 27 Murders, Lied Then Died
“A photo essay (otherwise known as a fucking slide show)...”
Source: You
“Why don't people with money and power realize that when they screw around with the little guy when they don't have to—especially when it's a little guy like me with not a damn thing to lose—sometimes the little guy is just going to get pissed off and stubborn up?”
Source: The Never-Open Desert Diner
“By six in the morning, she was baking with Emma. She was allowed to eat the burnt and the broken, and together they invented new muffins and pastries.”
Source: Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For