White / Caucasian. On an autumn night in 1894, Etta Alice Pitezel—age 13, gender female—moved in the shadow of a Chicago-tied confidence man who had already killed her father and folded her into a maze of aliases, train rides, and rented rooms. The swindler was H. H. Holmes, a smooth-talking fraud from Chicago whose crimes were rapidly widening from arson and insurance schemes into murder. He took custody of three Pitezel children under the pretense of helping their mother, spiriting 13-year
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