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The Importance of Dismemberment
"This is where you're going to end one part of the story. And it's like, I know, I think you killed those people," Holmes told a friend before his death in 1886. "You are so good at making this story up so that we don't question those bones." He was able to buy two bodies and put them into barrels which he stored in a room at the McCoy Hotel in Chicago. But after hearing or reading about how well insurance companies checked into cases like this and would like require a lot of evidence and proof, he decided they should abandon the whole idea. This story, people believe was possibly concocted and changed a bit to help him explain why there were