The beginning of 1893 was looking to be a promising year for Holmes. His pharmacy scams were taking off, his apartment complexes on the second floor were all set up, he had produced his own pill for curing alcoholism, and he now had two homes. Yeah, it was all looking good until the police started showing up to his drug store more frequently on the accounts of Julia Conner and Emeline Cigard. The parents of these two young women had separately hired "eyes" to dwell in Chicago searching for their beloved daughters. This cause Holmes to fret quite a bit until he pieced together that neither of the families suspected him to have anything to do with the disappearance of their daughters.
With this newly found information, Holmes quickly returned to his old ways. He was falling behind in paperwork and records at the drug store since the unfortunate disappearance of Emeline and was in desperate need of a new secretary. Fortunate enough for him, he knew the perfect girl to contact.
Her name was Minnie Williams. She had inherited what would be around $1.5 to $3 million in today's currency from her uncle after his passing. Unlike Holmes's past interests, Minnie was by no means gorgeous. She was plain and slightly overweight, but she had money...and lots of it. Holmes was able to overlook her appearance as he was driven by the wealth he would inherit if he were to marry her and she were to mysteriously die some time afterwards.
This is exactly what Holmes did. He convinced Minnie to come to Chicago to work for him, they eventually fell in love (well she did at least) and got married. It wasn't too long after their intimate wedding at the court house that Minnie became jealous of all the other younger, more attractive women that would fawn over her husband at the drug store. However, she was so happy to be with him and to have her sister in town that she soon got over her "absurd" feelings. Holmes had charmed Minnie's sister, Annie, by taking the two girls to the World Fair many times a week. The three enjoyed riding their bikes in the White City and admiring the magnificent architecture.
There have been no signs as to how he is going to kill Minnie and Annie or if he is going to kill them at all. I found this section quite interesting mainly because he has kept the two girls around longer than twenty pages or so haha and according to him they aren't even that attractive which goes against his taste. It will be interesting to see how much longer Holmes will keep them around and whether or not he will follow his redundant routine of killing.
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