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Remarkable career of Bluebeard Hoch unfolds across nations
Chicago authorities trace Johann Hoch a German bigamist and suspected murderer linked to nearly sixty desertions. He allegedly used German ads to lure wives, shifting identities from Count Otto von Kern to Hoch, with fourteen reported murders and ties to Edward Hatch of Holmes. Police fear a nationwide web of bigamy and murder across New York Chicago Milwaukee St Louis and beyond.
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Chicago
Johann Hoch
Bluebeard” Holmes
Philadelphia
New York
Hoch
Norfolk, Va
Wheeling
W. Va
Burkhart
Ind
Baltimore
Argos
Brooklyn
Aurora
Nil
St. Louis
Evanston, Ill
Cleveland
St. Paul
Minn
Buffalo
Wurtemburg
Gerry
Milwaukee
Berlin
Germany
Wisconsin
Iowa
Englewood
Edward Hatch
Holmes
Hatch
Castle
Peitzal
Otto von Kern
Hulda Nagel
Union Avenue
Amelia Fisher
Marie Welker
Joliet
Mr. Hoch
Bingen
Jacob Schmidt
Horrweiler
Wilhelm Hoch
Margaret Hoch
Schiller
Paris
Rue de Seine
London
Eugenia Avenue
Southampton
England
Western Avenue