Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, America's First Serial Killer.

in #story6 years ago

Today, we're going to check into the murder hotel. I just wanna say that it is acceptable to be entertained by gruesome and wicked things, of course, there is nothing wrong with that. So in the name of gruesome and wicked things, i'm gonna be talking about America;s first serial killer. I am going to scare your pants off, so tie em up tight.


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Ok so here he is, Dr. Holmes, Dr. Henry Howard Holmes. Doesnt look like a serial killer to me, i mean i never seen a serial killer that look so normal with cool mustache and hat, but this is a very demented individual as you will soon learn. First of all he was born as Herman Webster Mudgett, i mean, theres your problem, "Mudgett". He took care of that quickly and changed his name to Henry Howard Holmes, like the Triple H thing in the WWE.

Then at the age 19, he went to University of Michigan medical school. This is where things get very, very out of hand. This guy was innovative, he had quite a head on his shoulders, because he thought that paying for a medical isnt cheap and he had to find a way to pay for it. So what did he do? Well he found out that he got access to all these cadavers, dead bodies. Next, he set up fake insurance policies to people who didnt exist, its the late 1800s, you can get away with anything back in those days.

After that he would take one of the dead bodies and he would disfigure its face with acid and staged the death and go the the insurance people and claim the money. He would collect up to $12,000 which is $285,000 in today's dollars. So he made a lot of money, and then what did he do with all this money? He built the Murder Castle!


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1893 Chicago World's Fair, huge celebration of human innovation in industry. A couple of things debuted there, the ferris wheel, the hamburger, etc... Anyway, he builds a three story hotel, totally normal first floor, like a drug store and a place to check into the hotel. Then the upper two floors of the hotel is where he murdered people. He would lure people in there, mostly women, lead them up to their room that could only open from the outside, and then he would turn on gas and then listen to them die on the other side of the door. That was one of the ways that he killed people, he did multiple things. It was just like this maze of torture rooms and gas chambers. No one notice this because he would hire and fire people working for him over and over again so nobody ever picked up that something is wrong with the hotel.

At the bottom in the basement, he had a human dissassembly factory where he would take the bodies, skin the people, in the basement, and then he would take their organs and sell them on the black market. He can easily sell the organs because he got a medical background, and so he did this for six months. By the way, during this time he also married to three women.

Okay, so the World's Fair ends after six months. He goes and try something new, an insurance scheme where they gonna fake the death of certain guy. Instead of faking the death of a guy, he just kills him. The third guy involve in the scheme then turns him in. He ends up confessing to the killings and 27 additional murders, but a lot of people think that he killed up to 200 people. While he was in custody, thats when they went and the police found the Murder Castle and thats how we know about it.

When he was convicted, he was quoted saying this to the police, "I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that i was a murderer, no more than the poet could help the inspiration to sing. I was born with the evil one standing as my sponsor, beside the bed where i was ushered into the world, and he has been with me ever since."


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