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  1. Herman Webster Mudgett

    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 is believed to have killed somewhere between 20 and 200 people.
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    Four days before H.H. Holmes ’ execution on May 7, 1896, the Chicago Chronicle published a lengthy diatribe condemning the “multimurderer, bigamist, seducer, resurrectionist, forger, thief and general swindler” as a man “without parallel in the annals of crime.”
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    However, the World’s Fair became better known for a structure that was more gruesome than organizers could have imagined—the so-called “Murder Castle” of H.H. Holmes, America’s first documented serial killer. Who Was H. H. Holmes? H. H. Holmes was born Herman Webster Mudgett in New Hampshire in 1861.
    Dr. H.H. Holmes, the pseudonym of New Hampshire-born physician Herman Webster Mudgett, shown in an undated photo, is believed by many authorities to have been America’s first urban serial killer. As published in the Chicago Daily News, sister publication of the Chicago Sun-Times:
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    On May 7, 1896, Henry Howard Holmes was executed by hanging for the murder of his associate Ben Pitezel. Despite Holmes' confession of killing 27 other people (some of those people were later discovered to be alive and well), he was officially linked to nine murders.
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    H. H. Holmes - Wikipedia

    His most notorious crimes took place in Chicago around the time of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Despite his confession of 27 murders, including some people who were verifiably still alive, [1] Holmes was convicted and sentenced to death for only one murder, that of business partner and … See more

    Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American See more

    Holmes moved to Chicago in August 1886, which is when he began using the pseudonym "H. H. Holmes".
    Soon after his arrival, he came across a drugstore at the … See more

    Holmes' murder spree finally ended when he was arrested in Boston on November 17, 1894, after being tracked there from Philadelphia by … See more

    The case was notorious in its time and received wide publicity in the international press. Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First … See more

    Holmes was born Herman Webster Mudgett on May 16, 1861, in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, the third child of Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodate Page Price, both of whom were descended from the first English settlers in the area. As an adolescent, Holmes … See more

    On July 4, 1878, Holmes married Clara Lovering in Alton, New Hampshire. They had one son, Robert Lovering Mudgett (February 3, 1880 – … See more

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  5. Murder Castle - H.H. Holmes, Chicago World's Fair

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