Hey!

[apocalypsos]

I CALL FOUL.

When Sam is describing what H. H. Holmes used to do to his victims in the murder castle, he shifts around a couple of photos, the first a rather grainy picture of a body, and the second a VERY recognizable photo of a victim -- one of Jack the Ripper's victims, Elizabeth Stride.

I wonder what it says about me that I can identify serial killer/mass murderer (for the most part) given an autopsy photo or shot of the crime scene. That I'm creepier than the average bear, I imagine.

I really should have been a crim major in college. *sigh*

Told you I was going to nitpick.

Comments

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, and if you like true crime, pick up one of the books on Holmes. He's fascinating considering how much he got away with, and the murder castle is just freaking creepy. "The Devil and the White City" is a really good version of the events of his murders during the Chicago World Fair, and Harold Schechter's got a good book about his life story, too. There was another one I remember reading but I can't remember the title off the top of my head.

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

Robert Bloch did a thinly fictionalized version (name changed to protect the guilty) of the Holmes murders called American Gothic. It's pretty good.

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

OOO someone gave my mom a copy of that last year! *runs off to find book*