In Chicago, the appetite for every juicy tidbit about the case was fed by the yellow papers, which – when no actual news was available – cheerfully dished out wild rumor, lurid gossip, and even rank fabrication.

Well, I think there is always a conflict between the sexes. Women want to dominate men, but men shouldn’t let them do that.

The wayward morality of the country’s “flaming youth” was blamed, at least in part, on their easy access to enclosed automobiles, which one outraged critic described as “bordellos on wheels.

None of these men stayed around very long, though neither Greening nor anyone else ever witnessed their departure. Strangely, every one of them left his trunk behind.

The scientific investigator, in seeking an explanation for Mrs. Gunness’ unnatural crimes, would say that she was emotionally dead,” Munsterberg wrote.

Several Indiana communities seemed seized by a perverse envy. When rumors spread that “a new ‘death farm’ where Mrs. Belle Gunness buried many of her victims” had been discovered near Warsaw.

With the memory of Dr. H. H. Holmes still fresh in their minds.

Fish had already told both Wertham and Detective King that, in addition to shoving needles inside his body, he liked to soak pieces of cotton in alcohol, cram them up his rectum, and set fire to them.

The friendly relations Belle enjoyed with her neighbors when she first came to La Porte were not fated to last. “No one was a friend of hers,” Louisa Diessl.

Dr. Henry Cotton, a figure straight out of a horror movie.