Ep 27: H.H. Holmes Murder Castle: Kidnapping, Fraud, and Bad Santa’s Acid Baths

Hide your kids, lock up your insurance policies, and guard your skeletons, because this week our true crime podcast is doing a welfare check on the absolute worst businessman of the 19th century. We are unleashing a massive H.H. Holmes serial killer deep dive to look inside the absolute architectural fever dream that was the Chicago Murder Castle.Most comedy true crime podcasts will tell you he was a criminal genius, but we are exposing him as a wildly chaotic serial fraudster who desperately needed a hobby. We break down the construction of his hotel, his custom gas chamber vaults, and his horrific business plan of hiring builders to construct a secret maze and firing them before payday just so he wouldn't have to fork over any cash. Talk about a toxic boss.It gets even more unhinged as we dive into his multi-state life insurance scams. We unpack how his entire empire of lies collapsed alongside his side hustle as a weird entrepreneur—specifically his macro-economy strategy of bleaching bodies in acid baths to sell clean bones directly to local medical schools. To top it all off, we officially crown him the ultimate Bad Santa because he apparently decided December was the prime month for a festive holiday homicide spree. Grab a drink, lock your doors, and join us for a wildly chaotic roast of America's first con-artist monster!Share your stories with us so we can read them during Listener Week!  @[email protected] - The_Cold_Spot_Confessions https://www.instagram.com/the_cold_spot_confessions?utm_source=qr&igsh=aTBsejd2b3k2YnpvTiktok - The Cols Spot Confessions Podcasthttps://www.tiktok.com/@the.cold.spot.con.pod?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc Facebook - The Cold Spot Confessions Podcast https://www.facebook.com/share/1KjTVh7t51/