A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford.

“The site of his famous ‘murder castle’ is now mostly a grassy knoll next door to the post office at 63rd and Wallace, and there’s a little bit of overlap with where the post office is. I got to go into the basement of the post office with the History Channel a couple years ago, and my recorder picked up something that sounded like a little girl singing. We do know there was a little girl, Pearl, who was probably killed in the castle and probably buried in the basement.