These stories turned Holmes’ building into an elaborate torture dungeon outfitted with gas pipes to asphyxiate victims and soundproof rooms to hide their screams. Aileen Wuornos, then, was an exceedingly rare anomaly. Toureaux and tlze Cagoule in 1930s France (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 20l0). There are a few random cases of women with a genteel knack for poisoning, but serial murdering black widows are a small club indeed. The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris David King. (Pacific Photos) An overwhelming percentage of serial murders are men. Without any evidence, newspapers claimed Holmes used his building’s chute to transport bodies to the basement (the fact that he had a chute was not unusual, since many buildings had laundry chutes connected to the basement). Aileen Wuornos 1991 mugshot in Volusia County, Florida. “By the time I reached the end of my book, I kind of realized even a lot of the stuff that I had written was probably exaggerated.” (His book was originally published in 1994 as Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer.) “It’s my belief that probably all those stories about all these visitors to the World’s Fair who were murdered in his quote-unquote ‘Castle’ were just complete sensationalistic fabrication by the yellow press,” he says. A man named Gordon Stewart Northcott kidnapped, sexually abused, and murdered at least three, and possibly as many as twenty, young boys.
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