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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a 2003 historical non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style. . Set in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, it tells the story of World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. H. Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United ...
John Davis of Greenville, Pennsylvania, went to visit the 1893 World's Fair and vanished. In 1920, he was declared legally dead. [35] Harry Walker of Greensburg, Indiana, went missing in November 1893. He was alleged to have insured his life to Holmes for $20,000 and wrote to friends that he was working for Holmes in Chicago. [36]
The fair opened in May and ran through October 30, 1893. Forty-six nations participated in the fair, which was the first world's fair to have national pavilions. [15] They constructed exhibits and pavilions and named national "delegates"; for example, Haiti selected Frederick Douglass to be its delegate. [16]
List of women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; White Rabbits (sculptors), a group of women who created statues for the Horticultural Building; World's Congress of Representative Women, a week-long convention for the voicing of women's concerns, held at the Fair in May 1893
Joseph Robert Miller (born Joseph Robert Tarczon; January 15, 1945) is an American serial killer and rapist who raped and killed at least six women in Chicago and Peoria, Illinois, from 1977 to 1993. He was convicted of these crimes the following year and sentenced to death , which was later commuted to life imprisonment .
Among them was Ted Bundy, one of the most prolific serial killers in American history, “the Co-Ed Killer” Edmund Kemper and Richard Speck, who famously murdered a rooming house full of nurses ...
Andre Crawford (March 20, 1962 – March 18, 2017) was an American serial killer, rapist and necrophile who killed 11 women between 1993 and 1999 in Chicago. Many of the women were addicted to drugs or worked as sex workers. He also had sex with their corpses. [3] In 2009, Crawford was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life ...
Ottilie "Tillie" Klimek (born Otylia Gburek; 1876 – November 20, 1936) was a Polish American serial killer, active in Chicago.According to accounts, she pretended to have precognitive dreams, accurately predicting the dates of death of her victims, when in reality she was merely scheduling their deaths.