The Devil in the White City by Larson

The cleaning woman could spend the gold now and after a long life Holmes would get along $4,000 he told her. She almost signed, but Holmes said to her "Don't be afraid(p) of me," which "terrified her" (Larson 73). Another mode was Larson's ability to have a captive audience in his hotel, where secret chambers and methods of cleaning like gas piped into a room were readily open to him and gave him full power over unsuspecting victims.

Another method Holmes used to have enormous power over his victims was deception. His stallion business operation was a front for his macabre and sick of(p) chambers of horrors, windowless and soundproofed rooms so that victims were powerless once detain inside. He lured or forced women like Emeline Cigrand into his secret vault, where he suffocated them. As detectives eventually discovered, "One of the most striking discoveries came on the second floor, in the walk-in vault. The inside of the door showed the sheer imprint of a woman's bare foot. Police theorized the print had been do by a woman suffocating within" (Larson 365). That woman was Emeline Cigrand.

Holmes' abilities as a doctor and his appearance as a family man also helped him gain power over victims. He wound up having many victims who died from his custom of engaging in illegal abortions, whose bodies he also sold for organs or skeletons. Because abortion was illegal, it is not surprising that many women were forc

For the police there were warnings of a different sort-letters from parents, visits from detectives employ by parents-but these were lost in the chaos...There were too many disappearances, in all parts of the city, to investigate properly, and too many forces hindering the detection of patterns.

Larson, Erik.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and imbecility at the Fair that Changed America. New York: Vintage, 2004.

Holmes system of chutes and kilns to dispose of bodies expeditiously and without detection, plus his aid in doing so from Charles Chappell were reasons he was qualified to avoid being caught. Holmes' deception and faculty for lying also helped him escape capture. At a time when law enforcement did not have the sophisticated technologies and databases available today, Holmes' deceptions and relocations made him more onerous to capture. As Larson (102) explains,

ed to trust a man who by all outward appearances seemed like a decent medical student and family man. Holmes took advantage of the "social approbation" related to having an abortion and he forced his wife Julia to have an abortion based on such fears (Larson 146). As Larson (146) writes, "Holmes possessed Julia now as in full as if she were an antebellum slave." Other "slaves" would follow.

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