Malice Aforethought
- A Philadelphia grand jury votes to indict Holmes for the murders of Pitezel and his three children.
- Holmes sticks to his claim that Minnie Williams and a mysterious Hatch had killed the children.
- Holmes' memoir reaches newsstands, and it's full of fabrications.
- Nobody can seem to understand how Holmes managed to escape any serious investigation by the Chicago police. Where's Law and Order when you need it?
- The Chicago Times-Herald writes of Holmes, "He is a prodigy of wickedness, a human demon, a being so unthinkable that no novelist would dare to invent such a character" (4.6.6).
- Ugh. Spooky.