Mystery of the H.H. Holmes Collection

Former high school teacher, Alan Hunter, has led ghost tours of Irvington, Indiana for the past 15 years. These tours examine the darker side of our community's history, including the murder of a 10-year-old boy by America's first serial killer H.H. Holmes. An elderly couple asked Hunter if he would be interested in a group of items related to the Holmes crime. As the tour continued, he lost track of the couple, and forgot about them. The following Saturday, while Hunter was out leading the tour, the couple from the previous weekend approached the registration table with a box containing the collection. They said, "This is for Al. He is expecting these." In the years since that night, Hunter was never able to reconnect with them. He never found their names or the provenance of the collection. This book explores the items in the collection and tried to determine its creator.