Anna “Nannie” Williams, a 23-year-old white woman from Texas, met a tragic end on July 5, 1893, in Chicago, Illinois. She had traveled to the city to visit her sister, Minnie Williams, who was romantically involved with Dr. H. H. Holmes, a man later unmasked as one of America's first known serial killers. Holmes had constructed a building in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, later dubbed the “Murder Castle,” equipped with secret passages, soundproof rooms, and trapdoors, which he used to
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