HALL OF HORROR: H.H. Holmes

H.H. Holmes was born as Herman Webster Mudgett in 1861. He was soon labeled "The Beast of Chicago" as he had mostly killed the people that lived in the city. He would kill them in his hotel appropriately labeled The Murder Castle. When he was younger he was pinned as a very intelligent boy with an interest in medicine. He soon started to preform surgeries on animals, and some accounts state that he might have been liable in the death of a friend. When he moved to Chicago, in 1886, he soon found a job at a pharmacy under the now well-known name H.H. Holmes. He soon took over the business and they first owner mysteriously disappeared. Holmes soon had a three-story hotel, and designed it to be a house of horrors. On the upper floors was his living quarters and a variety of rooms that he used to kill and torture his victims. He would often asphyxiate his 'guests'. He had a variety of trapdoors and chutes made so her could dispose of his freshly killed victim. The door and chutes led to his basement where he would burn his victims bodies and/or dispose of them in other ways. Sometimes Holmes would strip the bones of flesh and sell them to medical colleges.
He had a habit of seducing women to eventually slaughter them. He was engaged many times, only to have his fiances suddenly 'vanish'. He continued to scam others, but when he made an alliance with Benjamin Pitezel he had ensured his downfall. The two were soon caught and thrown in a Texas jail. There, they brought someone else into the scheme that they had been working on. But when Holmes did not fulfill his side of the deal, Marion Hedgepeth tipped off the cops. Unfortunately, Hedgepeth only knew Holmes and H.M. Howard. It took a while for the police to finally affiliate Howard to Holmes, but they didn't make the connection on time to save the Pitezel family. He killed Benjamin first, and then convinced the wife that her husband was still alive. He was afraid that the Pitezel children would give him away, he took three of the five children and killed them.
When Holmes was arrested they first accused him of fraud. But soon they also accused him of killing Pitezel. While in captivity, Holmes told numerous accounts of his misdeeds, once admitting that he had killed 27 people. It is still undecided whether he killed between 20 or 100 people, but even with those numbers he was still the most notorious serial killers, even surpassing the ones to come. He was hanged on May 7th, 1896 for the Pitezel murder in Philadelphia.

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