Reason First- The Murderous Johann Otto Hoch

Sometimes there’s just enough room to marry multiple wives, kill at least one of them officially, and be suspected of murdering more than 50 others. Johann Otto Hoch did just that. Thanks to the scapegoat known as money, it would appear as if Hoch was a “selfish,” “greedy”, and an money-grubbing bastard. In fact, he was a scared, selfless swindler and murderer.

By all accounts, Hoch set out to be an unselfish, vicious person of ill-manners and a weak mind. He was unselfish because he did not esteem himself enough to extend that sentiment to others.

This killer Lothario had made a system of subjecting various women to his wiles. He collected thousands of dollars in the span of a few years. He targeted these women and manipulated them to give of themselves their smart earned cash.

Hoch drew up scams to relinquish these women of sometimes their life fortune. He took their money without regard or remorse. His selflessness, or inability to have interest in his own life much less the lives of others, prevented him from having a proper viewpoint on life. From 1892 to 1905 in Chicago, Hoch delivered a message out to each and every one of his victims. He showed that their money would be better in his pocket.

Serial killers like Hoch feel as if they can get away with multiple murders. The bigamy associated with his wicked ways describes how he was so focused on not making money, but taking it. In his corroded mind, he wanted to horde money instead of saving it.

And the means by which he dispatched his “wives” was to show that he had no clue as to how to be a model citizen. For all of his powers of influence, he could have been a financial industrialist. He could have been the president of a company selling widgets. Rather, Hoch chose the low road. He decided to rip away cash from women who trusted him to be an upstanding individual. In reality, he was a monster that couldn’t handle being a real man. Hoch brought about a sense that he failed at life and wanted to take that out on other people. The women who took him in and “married” him should be given posthumous medals for their courage to fight off his disgusting ways. Again, only one woman was found dead by the hands of Hoch officially. But multiple deaths could have been by Hoch.

This Illinois embarrassment was an ugly soul who could care less about his own life and of those women whom he encountered. The hanging of Hoch after he was captured, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death could have been the most justice that this story had seen. His way of doling out death by “marrying,” snatching the money, and then leaving these women demonstrated a man of great vice.

Hoch was the terror that limited his own progress and impeded permanently an alleged half one hundred women. Equipped with a list of ways to need a Lothario, Hoch brought a sense of impotence to the fore. Instead of taking seriously the beauty of life, Hoch sacrificed his mental agility when it came to wooing women. He opted to dismiss these women in the most heinous of ways.

So what brought Hoch into police custody? He was discovered with a fountain pen containing arsenic. His reign of terror ended. But his long-lasting legacy of destruction will continue throughout generations. The level of stupidity in this whole case would have been comical if it were not so tragic. Hoch put himself in the position of a creep and his body swung back and forth for his evildoings.