Serial killer H. H. Holmes
Introduction
Holmes is one of the first serial killers across the American history in which he left a legacy of terror within the people in the country. During the given 1893 Columbian exposition, Holmes lured many of his victims into one of his elaborate murder castle. Born Herman Webster Mudgett in the year 1861, he became the first of the documented serial killers in regards to the modern America. Holmes confessed some of the 27 crimes or murders he committed in the country in which nine of them were specifically confirmed to have been committed by this serial killer. The killer may have rather killed more than even two hundred people and this is according to other sources since some of them were not confirmed. He had a hotel known as the World’s Fair Hotel in which he lured some of his victims in the hotel. It was located in about three miles west of the given 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.
Holmes, R. M., & Holmes, S. T. (2010). Serial murder. Los Angeles: SAGE.
Holmes is one of the known con artists across the country and a bigamist besides being the serial killer he was. In his early life, Holmes’s father was an alcoholic and used to frighten them as children and this led to the aspect of being a serial killer in his life. In many occasions, he was the best student in school and excelled in many areas where many of the other jealous students bullied him due to his excellence in academics. In one instance, the bully students made Holmes to a doctor’s office in which they made him stand face to face with one of the human skeletons in the doctor’s office. This led to young Holmes to be frightened but later on found it fascinating since they made the skeleton’s hands to be on the face of Holmes. This is the reason as to why he was cured of his fears and was fascinated to be dealing with such issues.
Kerns, Rebecca; Lewis, Tiffany; McClure, Caitlin (2012). "Herman Webster Mudgett: 'Dr. H.H Holmes or Beast of Chicago'" (PDF).Department of Psychology, Radford University. Retrieved 22 May 2015
Holmes after the experience became more obsessed with the given issue of death and later started the hobby of the dissecting of animals in the farm. His father was a farmer and this is the reason as to why he could dissect animals in the firm without the issue of fear. After completing his high school education, Holmes went ahead to do some teaching jobs in which he left out of dissatisfaction. Later on, he joined the University of Michigan where he enrolled in medicine and surgery. Since he was one of the best students in the school, he graduated after passing his exams in the university.
Mudgett, H. W., & Lake, M. (2016). Holmes: A serial killer in his own words. Media, PA: Parnilis Media.
While in the school, Holmes could engage in various scams like stealing cadavers from the given school laboratory and disfigured the bodies of the given victims to claim that they were killed accidentally and this could bring money to him. This kind of scams led to the serial killer to develop the habit of being serial in all levels in which he could ask for compensation from the bodies in insurance companies. His marriage to Clara split apart and later on went to live in New York leaving his son with the mother. After moving to the New York city of Mooers he was seen with one little boy and after a period of time he the people who saw him with the boy claimed he was missing.
Patrick B. Quinlan, death certificate, March 4, 1914, Portland, Ionia, Michigan. Digital image of death certificate
After being asked where the boy went, he told the police that the boy went back to live with his parents in Massachusetts. After all these incidences, no investigation was launched to confirm the truth of the matter and this led to Holmes left the town to find other victims in other parts. This was the first victim in which Holmes killed in his mysterious behavior and was documented. He quickly left the given time since he was yawning to kill another person in his daily operations since he had the passion to kill after being bullied in school and this might have traumatized Holmes and led him to commit the given felonies.
Holmes, R. M., & Holmes, S. T. (2008). Profiling violent crimes: An investigative tool. London: SAGE.
After leaving Mooers he went and found a job in Philadelphia where he made it in finding a job for himself and upkeep. He got a job in Norristown Town Hospital in which mysteriously he had to quit after very few days of work. He found another job in a nearby store in which he used to sell drugs to people in the town. He worked for a few days but a boy died after taking drugs in which he had bought from the drugstore.
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Holmes denied any kind of involvement with the death of the given child. This led to Holmes leaving the given town again to find other pastures across the United States. This means that Holmes was slowly becoming a refugee in his own country after committing the second felony of killing the young child with the drugs he had sold to him. Before moving to the next destination Chicago, he decided to kind of change his name to the already known Henry Howard Holmes.
Wilson, D. (2007). Serial killers: Hunting Britons and their victims, 1960 to 2006. Winchester: Waterside.
He did this to make sure that the previous scams he had committed and the victims he had killed their people will not make a point to catch up with him in the new city. Also, the police were not to catch up with him since he had a different identity and did not wish any person to notice that he had committed other serial kills during his stay within those towns. Another fact in which Holmes did was to marry three wives at the same time and this made him to be moving all-round the cities. Some of the divorces he filed did not happen or rather concluded and this made him to stay with three wives at the same time. In Chicago he stayed there with the family while attending to business for a while and at this time he did not make any other felony since he needed to first go slow not to be known or noticed.
Mitovich, Matt Webb (2016-11-18). "Timeless to Visit 1893 World's Fair, Casts Role of Serial Killer H.H. Holmes". TVLine.Retrieved 2017-02-14.
After arriving in Chicago, he looked for a job and Holton gave him a job in one of the drugstores and proved to be one of the hardworking employees of the store. Later on, the husband to Holton died and Holmes decided to buy the drugstore from the woman in which she agreed. After selling water to the sick and other drugs he accumulated the amount of money he needed for his operations and left the drugstore. He purchased a given empty space on the opposite of the drugstore where he built his three story hotel for his business. During the construction of the given hotel, Holmes was firing and hiring other employees to work in the construction of the hotel.
Howard, A., & Smith, M. (2004). River of blood: Serial killers and their victims. Boca Raton, Fla: Universal Publishers.
The main reasons as to why he did this was to make sure that he was the only one who knew the design of the building for his hidden agendas. He claimed that the employees were incompetent in all aspects and therefore made sure he sacked them after a given duration of time. The given murder castle was constructed with strange constructions around and did not want any other person to understand the given design of the house. During the given construction of the house, he met a carpenter with a criminal past by the name Pitezel who became the closest friend for the serial killer.
Gelmini, David (9 February 2017). "Exclusive: Andrew C. Erin Talks Havenhurst". Dread Central.Retrieved 23 February 2017.
The district attorney described the carpenter as the tool in which Holmes used in order to commit the given felonies. Holmes hired mostly females to work in the hotel and preferred the female victims in his operations. One of the conditions for employment was file for a life insurance policy in which Holmes could be the beneficiary. Even the lovers of the females working in the hotel were compelled to have insurance policies for life and this is the business in which Holmes felt like doing.
Selzer, A. (2012). Inside the murder castle: Investigating Chicago's first serial killer, H.H. Holmes. Woodbury, Minn: Llewellyn Publications.
The rooms of the given hotel were fitted well with sound proof fittings in order to allow Holmes to commit whichever felony he wished. He killed the victims through placing them in the rooms with chambers to allow them suffocate and die of hunger and thirst. The main purpose of doing this to his victims was that Holmes had a lot of connection to many medical schools in the country and he could sell some of the bodies to the schools for experiments.
The Backyard Traveler. "Exploring Illinois by Rich Moreno: The Site of the Infamous Murder Castle". exploringillinois.blogspot.com. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
The house was fitted with many of the various units of destroying evidence in which Holmes proved to be very clever. Some of the rooms were fitted with pits of acid where he could dump some of the bodies of the victims he killed. In other rooms, there were fitted with furnaces in which he could make sure the bodies of the victims are burned to ashes to prevent any evidence from coming out.
Gunn, L. M. (1999). Male serial killers and their victims: An examination of social class.
The connections he had gained since in school led to him making business with the schools by selling some of the bodies to them. First he could claim life insurance from the insurance company so that he can gain money from the operation. This made him have more funds to create the murder castle where he could trap the females and their lovers in the rooms and kill them. This serial killer is one who was documented to have killed many of his victims but in the real sense, many of the deaths by Holmes were not confirmed after investigation. Some of the victims were dissected and some flesh pulled out of their body and this was one of the passions of Holmes to dissect his victims all through.
Larson, E. (2004). The devil in the white city: Murder, magic and madness at the fair that changed America.
One of the documented witnesses a Mistress Julia Smythe who was a given wife to an employee in the drugstore became the next victim for Holmes. Holmes first has an affair with the lady before the husband noticed and stopped working for the drugstore and went away leaving Julia and his daughter behind. After a short period they went on with the relationship until one day Julia told Holmes that she was pregnant. This led to Holmes being angry while Julia pressed to be married by the serial killer and this was not the plan of the given killer.
Richards, C. E. (2000). The loss of innocents: Child killers and their victims. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources.
Holmes planned the manner in which he will murder Julia since he did not want to get married to the given woman. Since he was already planned on what to do, he wisely calculated on the next move he was going to take. This led to Holmes making some conditions to the lady that if he was going to marry her she should get rid of the child first. So she agreed for the abortion in which Holmes was to give some drugs to her on the eve of Christmas. Holmes them murdered Julia by means of overdosing her using the abortion pills he administered to her on that day. Holmes did not stop at this point but rather went ahead and killed the daughter to Julia on unknown circumstances where she used their bodies to articulate their skeletons.
Glenn, Alan (October 22, 2013). "A double dose of the macabre". Michigan Today. Ann Arbor: Regents of the University of Michigan. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
After the neighbors asked on the whereabouts of the two Julia and her daughter, Holmes claimed they left to attend a relatives wedding in their home in Iowa and this went on uninvestigated. The serial killer went ahead and hired Mr. Chappell who was to take the body of Julia to articulate on its skeleton. He first had to chop off the hands and later take the body for further modelling of the skeleton. This was the first job in which Holmes hired Chappell to work on it in regards to making a skeleton and he paid him a good amount.
Amanda Gunther (13 May 2013). "'Murdercastle' at Baltimore Rock Opera Society by Amanda Gunther".Retrieved 6 September 2016.
On the day, Chappell was hired for a second job for a body of a man to make a good skeleton on it and he paid Chappell very well. The hiring and relationship between the two became sour after the third time when the given serial killer decided to hire Chappell to finish the given job of making the given skeleton and did not pay him due to financial problems Holmes had.
Schmid, D. (2006). Natural born celebrities: Serial killers in American culture. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press.
Another victim though not well confirmed was a woman she met in Boston when on a business trip in the city. Minnie Williams lived in the city of Boston where she worked and Holmes introduced himself to be Henry Gordon. They started the issue of dating but since Holmes had to return to Chicago, the relationship had to stop. Later on, Minnie came to work in Chicago and decided to look for Holmes and they rekindled their relationship. This went on for a long time and the serial killer offered Minnie a job in the hotel. After a given while, Minnie brought her sister to come and work for the serial killer and there they started having a relationship with them both. On one instance, the serial killer send Annie the sister to Minnie in his office vault to bring him a file.
Franke, D. (1975). The Torture Doctor. New York: Avon. ISBN 0-8015-7832-9.
While in the vault, Holmes came in and closed the door and opened a gas to kill her inside. This was another victim for the serial killer that was documented in the history of the United States. Minnie also vanished without people knowing where she was but according to records she was one of the victims of the serial killer. At some time, the man he had hired after killing Julia and her daughter kept the third skeleton and waited for Holmes to pay him. This went on until the arrest of the serial killer in which he (Chappell) cooperated with the police in the investigation to net down the given serial killer. He had transferred the property of the William daughters to his name and planned on moving out of Chicago to find other places to live during the given World’s Fair.
Ramsland, K. M. (2006). Inside the minds of serial killers: Why they kill. Westport, Conn: Praeger.
The economy was under panic in the 1893 when the World’s Fair was in Chicago and this made the serial killer to move from that city to Texas. In Texas, he stayed to live in the properties he had acquired from the William daughters back in Chicago. His mind was set in constructing another castle in Texas but after the start of the construction, he had to abandon the operation for other needs and business. After this time he was moving in and out of United States and Canada. Disappearing and re-appearing but the only murders that were documented for the serial killer was the ones for his long friends and the carpenter Pitezel.
Robert Bloch. "AMERICAN GOTHIC". Kirkus Reviews.Retrieved 16 October 2015.
He murdered this carpenter and three of his children for his satisfaction and this were the almost coming to be caught by the police. In 1894, Holmes was arrested for smuggling goods which were mortgaged and selling them in which it was not the real crimes he had committed. While in the jail before being bailed out, he started a conversation with a prisoner who gave him a name of a lawyer who would help in defrauding a given insurance company to get a lot of money in which the lawyer accepted but the insurance company did not pay terming the issue suspicious.
Kit, Borys (10 August 2015). "Leonardo DiCaprio Teams With Martin Scorsese for 'Devil in the White City'". The Hollywood Reporter.Retrieved 13 January 2017.
The money he had promised to pay the given cellmate Hedgepeth after giving him a lawyer was a lie and this infuriated the cellmate a lot. After some time with the lawyer, the serial killer planned to fake the death of Pitezel in which instead of faking it he killed him. He later cheated the wife to Pitezel that he had moved to London and he will be back of which it was not true. The fallout between the two cellmates led to Hedgepeth to tip the police on the serial killer. This happened in 1894 when the given cellmate decided to revenge on the serial killer concerning the manner in which he manipulated people and killed them. The police on the other hand took action on the way in which they will handle the case for the serial killer.
Borowski, J. (2000). H.H. Holmes: America's first serial killer. Chicago, IL: J. Borowski.
Forensic experts during the trial for the serial killer had many of the operations made in finding the manner in which they will uncover the several insurance scams that the serial killer had committed. This means that the killer did not have the murders only but had many scams dealing with insurance. The police did not hurry in getting to arrest Holmes before committing other murders like the Pitezel family.
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At the first instance, the serial killer was charged with the issue of insurance fraud since they did not know about the other crimes he committed. During the time he spends in custody, the serial killer admitted to the police to killing several other people ranging to 27 people. This was not the exact number of murders in which Holmes did during the time in which he committed the murders.
Joanna Robinson. "American Horror Story Just Gave Us a Glimpse of Leonardo DiCaprio's Next Big Role". Vanity Fair.Retrieved 16 October 2015.
People claim that they are over two hundred murders all said to have been committed by the serial killer. If this is true about the given figures, then it means that the serial killer Holmes is far much clear from the rest of the modern killers we have today. He has surpassed other serial killers in the murders he committed across the United States. Police had to visit the Murder Castle in which the serial killer had built in Chicago to get more information of the truth of the matter. Therefore this serial killer is one of the worst to be documented in the American history registering many kills compared to any other serial killer across the United States.
Mitovich, Matt Webb (2016-11-18). "Timeless to Visit 1893 World's Fair, Casts Role of Serial Killer H.H. Holmes". TVLine.Retrieved 2017-02-14.
He dealt with insurance scams also in which they landed him to his arrest during the time he did not pay any amount he had agreed after his cellmate found him a lawyer who could help him in defrauding several insurance companies in the country. The manner in which he pulled and netted some of his victims was through the issue of having a relationship with the victim and later killing them. Children were many of the victims of the serial killer thus making him the first to be documented across the United States.
Borowski, J., Estrada, D., & Mudgett, H. W. (2005). The strange case of Dr. H.H. Holmes. West Hollywood, Calif: Waterfront Production.
The book asserts that murder in American has a long history. When H.H. Holmes was arrested in 1894, the issue of murder became a concern following the Holmes murder case which was ranked high among all murder cases. During this period, the public interests and America in general named him a star in the American popular culture. Not only did they make him a celebrity but they also introduced a debate to decide whether murderer in America was archetypal or aberrational. In addition, American citizens were interested in understanding how the murder cases are interconnected with violence and national identity. During the debate, it was believed that Holmes’s brutal crimes are due to greed or madness. Since he was an exemplary businessman, his murders were connected with moneymaking schemes.
Colliflower, W. W. (2013). Monsters of medicine: The lives of five serial killer physicians : is there a common thread?.
In 1893 when the Columbian Exposition was opened, H.H. Holmes squalid life disentangles. During this period he tried to use fake names and bank accounts to issue funds from illegal sources. Chicago place faced challenges in trying to maintain law and order in dealing with these cases. Later, he did absurd actions by burning the castle and caused damage to many properties. Despite the fact that he caused the fire, he claimed $6, 000 from insurance company.
Johnson, S. P. (2011). Trials of the century: An encyclopedia of popular culture and the law. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO.
In 19th century, the Holmes’s evil acts and murder trial was seen as a national obsession by American public. Given that Holmes was brilliant person, he used to steal money from creditors and many cases of murder were made for profit. His cases of murder increased when he was working at drugstore in 1886. The owner of the drugstore who was known as Holton died of cancer and Holmes decided to buy the whole store from Mrs. Holton. However, Holmes was taken to the court for failing to pay the money they had agreed with Mrs. Holmes. Later, Holmes killed Mrs. Holton and said that Mrs. Holmes relocated to California. The financial gain which he extracted from illegal acts was used to establish castles.
Miller, S. J. (2006). Devil's disciple: The deadly Dr. H.H. Holmes. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.
Holmes’s castle was known as the “murder factory” where he kept corpses. Inside the castle, police found 200 bodies in 1895. Many of the dead people were his employees who later become his victims. Holmes confessed that the devil was in him and nothing could prevent him from committing murder. In the castle, drugstore was located in the first floor and he could kill people in the other floors where no one was aware of the business going on directly above.
Martin B. John (2017). The Master of the Murder Castle. A classic of Chicago crime. Retrieved from Harper’s Magazine 201
The article asserts that the murder castle was a nineties building which looked awkward. In the interior, there were various secret passageways and the total number of people who were murdered in the building is unknown. However, it is believed that a large number were women and they were killed by being beaten to death, gassed and other acts. Holmes was known as the ‘monster’ since he was a great criminal by murdering many people not only for profit gain but also for other unusual things. In 1894, policemen forced the Holmes to open the door in the castle and a man was found dead and was killed by explosion.
Brown Jerrod, Hickey Erica & Harris Blake (2015). H.H. Holmes One of America’s First Recorded Serial Murderers. Vol. 1, Issue 2
The article defined Holmes as a criminal who engaged in different illegal behaviors such as insurance fraud, murdering and cheating women to be his lovers. After the castle was completed, Holmes enjoyed high profit since tourists could take rest in the castle. In 1894, he was detained and charged for defraud of Life Insurance Company. Later he was imprisoned in Moyamensing. During his trial, there was credibility that he had killed 133 people. In 1896, he was killed and prior to his hanging, he could not show any concern to his imminent demise but rather he instructed on how he will buried.
Benzkofer Stephan (2017). Chicago's first serial killer. Retrived from Chicago Tribune.
The article asserts that Holmes who was the first serial killer killed innocent people who used to visit World’s Fair tourists in Chicago. In 1893, the business was booming in the White city and during this period Holms enjoyed advantage of welcoming people to his Murder Castel where he could conduct the illegal acts. There before, America had not experience such murder cases similar with Holmes murder. The history of Holmes is remembered in the popular culture. Today, Holmes is known as the “ The Devil in the White City” and a person whose story is disturbing.
Gibson, D. C. (2010). Serial killing for profit: Multiple murder for money. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger/ABC-CLIO.
The purpose of this book is to show the reader how Holmes was not only a killer but was also a person who engaged himself in illegal behaviors for money matters. The author states that Holmes was famous in 19th century and he was the great American murderer compared with other criminals like Jack the Ripper. His murderer cases were discovered when he killed three children and at this time the public showed the interest toward the murder. The author provides important information which shows how Holmes developed up to the point of becoming a murder. In his childhood, Homles was a strange child and his behaviors were odd compared with other students at school. He was unpopular and he could not socialize with people. Under his personality, Holmes was an ingenious criminal though he was known as the brightest person in the town.
Gibson, D. C. (2010). Serial killing for profit: Multiple murder for money. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger/ABC-CLIO.
Year 1896 marks the crime histozry in U.S. This is the period when Holmes was hanged and even though criminals such as Jack the Ripper are remembered in American history, people’s mind reflect on Holmes evil acts. Since childhood, Holmes was an unfortunate moniker who gained his education through insurance scams. It is important to note that in the castle, there was a laboratory with equipments which he used to dissect human bodies. He could sell the human skeleton to the medical schools.
Philpot Chelsey (2007). Peering into the Darkness: The First Serial Killer.nhmagazines. com
Philpot asserts that there were many murderers in U.S but Holmes was the great killer and the article argues that he derived these activities from American’s Gilded Age and used them as strategies in his dark trade. The author provides important information to show how Holmes could entice people to enter in his Castle. He named the castle as “The World’s Fair Hostel” and visitor could not know what happens inside. Apart from enticing visitors, Holmes used charm to deceive women and to defraud insurance companies.
Miller P. Frederic, Vandome F. Agnes & John McBrewster. (2010). H.H.Holmes. VDM Publishing
The author of this books states that Holmes confessed his illegal acts and admitted that he killed 27people. In 1893, many articles were published in the newspaper and his notorious cases were presented in the articles. Many people were interested in these crimes and Erik Larson wrote a non-fiction book that talked about the World’s Fair and murder with Holmes. Despite the fact that his father was a disciplinarian, Holmes was a criminal and a child who had sociopathic behavior. He did not only show cruelty to children but he also to animals.
Schechter Harold. (2008). Depraved. Simon and Schuster.
Schechter asserts that there are many people who are human predators but only few can be called legends. The author asserts that the reason as to why serial killers behaviors become fascinating, it is because their behaviors express the sociopath appetites and darkest impulses. Their deeds show primordial evils and in other way they tend to resist the culture. The book introduces the history of Holmes and asserts that in 19th century, there was a wicked person in America who expressed Titanic energies and caused social change. This period was remarkable in that business was booming and the rule for success controlled America. However, the author asserts that Holmes was hungry for the business. Though Chicago was known as a land of success and wealthy, criminals made it a poor place through expressing his prodigious energies for the acquisition of wealth. Even though ‘the Great White City’ could lead to much development, Holmes made it ‘the Castle’ which represented pride.
Taylor, T. (2013). Murder by gaslight: The authenticated history of Dr. H.H. Holmes, his insidious murder castle, the World's Columbian Exposition & the horrors of gaslight era Chicago.
The author asserts that the Gaslight Era comprised the illegal acts such as crime, corrupt and more in U.S. Chicago was among the states where killers and World’s Fair was in rise. H.H. Holmes was a criminal who was embraced in Chicago but later modifying the place and made it a devious scheme and bloody murders. The author asserts that in Chicago, Holmes built a convoluted hotel and in 1893 when World’s Fair was created, the rooms in the building were completed and the building was designed in way that not one could understand except Holmes.
Miksanek Chris. (2015). H. H. Holmes: A Blotch on the White City: Period Accounts of Herman W. Mudgett, America's First Serial Murderer. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
In this book, Miksanek asserts that Holmes stained the White City through his horror acts. Though there were many murderers, Holmes was well known for murder and torture. His cases were tarnished and several authors showed their concern and published books based on his murderer. He is referred as the great serial killer because the murderers who were there before did not cause many cases of murder like Holmes. In 19th century, Holmes invaded in Philadelphia, a place which was booming due to development and wealth. He enjoyed advantage where he bought a drugstore and opened a castl
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