Leonardo DiCaprio looks set to play a 19th-century serial killer who lured his victims into a “murder castle” containing a gas chamber, crematorium and dissecting table.
DiCaprio has picked up the rights to Erik Larson’s 2003 non-fiction book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. The book recounts the story of mass murderer Dr HH Holmes, a hotelier who is believed to have slaughtered anywhere from 27 to 200 people, mainly young single women whom he lured to his World’s Fair Hotel in Chicago.
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