bookguy — 19 years ago(January 19, 2007 06:42 PM)

As I was watching this, I was very struck by similarities to the killings of HH Holmes - America's first serial killer.
From wikipedia:-
Holmes built a block-long, three-story hotel for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
The bottom floor of "The Castle" contained shops (one a jeweler, for example), his personal office, and the upper floors a maze of over one hundred windowless rooms with doorways that would open to brick walls, stairways to nowhere, doors that could only be opened from the outside, and a host of other maze-like constructions. Over a period of three years, Holmes selected female victims from among his employees, lovers, or hotel's guests, and tortured them in soundproof and escapeproof chambers fitted with gas lines that permitted Holmes to asphyxiate the women at any time. Holmes had repeatedly changed builders during the initial construction of the Castle, to ensure that no one truly understood the design of the house he had created, who might then report it to the police. In addition, according to law at that time, by firing workers every two weeks, he didn't have to pay them. Once dead, the victims' bodies went by a secret chute to the basement, where they were either meticulously dissected, stripped of flesh, articulatedcrafted into a skeleton modeland then sold to medical schools; or cremated and placed in lime pits for destruction. Holmes had two giant furnaces as well as pits of acid, bottles of various poisons, and even a rack to create a race of "giants." Because of the connections he gained through medical school, he was able to sell skeletons and organs with little difficulty.
Spooky!