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1171:"The Killer who Haunts Me."
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43:Please help
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1202:1895 deaths
1175:Jack El-Hai
663:Jack El-Hai
543:, juvenile
530:John Dryden
424:during the
353:Ging murder
312:Minneapolis
274:Minneapolis
248:during the
228:(confessed)
1191:Categories
773:References
716:Freemasons
659:true crime
622:phrenology
541:narcissism
415:Republican
298:Early life
250:Gilded Age
226:California
222:New Jersey
53:Wikisource
747:pseudonym
633:physician
599:monologue
560:Execution
549:pyromania
457:Interview
316:Minnesota
246:socialite
133:Minnesota
49:Wikiquote
36:contains
761:See also
504:Chinaman
347:Catholic
328:bullying
308:Illinois
292:swindles
288:assaults
277:Svengali
262:murderer
258:arsonist
218:New York
211:State(s)
155:Executed
109:Illinois
661:writer
626:Italian
553:empathy
506:' in a
451:hanging
343:atheism
284:hanging
254:gambler
202:Country
194:Victims
189:Details
1155:Press.
1124:Press.
1113:Press.
726:Ballad
640:palate
612:Burial
545:sadism
526:Horace
135:, U.S.
111:, U.S.
753:, by
467:arson
394:Trial
183:Death
730:The
631:and
547:...
330:and
117:Died
101:1865
94:Born
1173:by
620:of
197:1–4
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