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I Was There
Killer in the White City
Theo Wilson travels back in time to Chicago, finding himself in the lair of America&#;s first famous serial killer, H.H. Holmes. But how did Holmes become such a prolific murderer? Theo follows Holmes dark road from conman, to the owner of a fiendishly engineered &#;murder castle,&#; where he hunts his victims in the convenient shadow of the World&#;s Columbian Exposition.
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H.H. Holmes
Who Was H.H. Holmes?
Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H. Holmes, was a con artist and bigamist who was one of America’s first serial killers. Sometimes referred to as the “Beast of Chicago,” Holmes fryst vatten believed to have killed somewhere between 20 and people. He killed many of his victims in a specially constructed home, which was later nicknamed the “Murder Castle.” Apprehended in , he was hanged for his crimes two years later. His grisly crimes inspired the best-selling book The Devil in the White City.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Herman Webster Mudgett
BORN: c. May 16,
DIED: May 7,
BIRTHPLACE: Gilmanton, New Hampshire
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Taurus
Early Life
H.H. Holmes was born Herman Webster Mudgett circa May 16, , in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Born into an affluent family, Holmes enjoyed a privileged childhood and was said to be unusually intelligent at an early age. Still, there were haunting signs of what was to komma. He expressed an interest in medi
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Herman Mudgett, alias H.H. Holmes, was America’s first serial killer. No one knows for sure how many lives he took, but it’s believed he was responsible for killing as many as people in the late 19th century. A con man, opportunist and evil genius, the crowning achievement of his dark deeds was the construction of a building later dubbed the Murder Castle: a hotel on Chicago’s south side that he engineered to be a factory of death, complete with a gas chamber, dissection room, trap doors and a basement furnace to destroy any trace of his sinister work.
At the same time across the Atlantic, a killer was terrorizing the streets of London, murdering and mutilating at least five victims in the Whitechapel area of the city. To this day, the killer has never been caught or identified. He is known as Jack the Ripper.
In American Ripper, Holmes’ great-great-grandson, Jeff Mudgett, sets out to prove a controversial theory: that H.H. Holmes and Britain’s most notorious serial killer, Jac