Dr. Robert Leacock: Americas First Serial Killer

The Devil in The White City is a nonfiction book, that takes place in the years before, during and after the Chicago’s World Fair in 1893. Erik Larson is famous for writing historical nonfiction; he spends weeks, maybe even months researching the interesting historical events, and writing them for the public to understand in a better context. The two main characters in this interesting historical non-fiction book are; the protagonist, Daniel Hudson Burnham; who is an architect and has built many important structures such as Union Station in Washington D.C. and the Flatiron Building in New York. The antagonist, H.H. Holmes; a doctor that is famous for being one of the most notorious serial killers of all times, especially the urban killings.

They then realized what they had discovered, they saw the torture chamber holmes used to kill his victims. Holmes was first charged with insurance scams and then later on he was charged for first degree murder of Benjamin Pitezel.

He started this habit of strangulation and remembrance taking. After killing the victims he did send semen at the crime scene and told the people that he derived sexual pleasure from murdering people. The second murder was on the 4th of April 1974 whereby he sneaked into a woman’s apartment known as Kathryn Bright.

Herman Webster Mudgett was a man born in a wealthy family in Gilmanton, New Hampshire U.S.A on May 16 1861 and Died May 7 1896 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He graduated from medical school whereas he took his alias of Dr.Henry Howard Holmes and took a job in chicago as a pharmacist a well known terrible achievement of his is being one of America's first recorded serial murderers. His victims were usually his employees, lovers or even his hotel guests, some were locked in soundproof rooms filled with gas that let him asphyxiate them, Some were taken to the hanging chamber where Holmes would hang them and some were locked in a soundproof bank vault and left to suffocate. He was tried and charged for the murder of his accomplice Benjamin Pitzel and also was said to confess about committing 100+ murders but later changed the number to 27 he was sentenced to

Herman Webster Holmes known as Dr. Henry H. Holmes or H.H. Holmes was a famous American serial killer. Holmes was born on May 16 , 1861 in Gilmanton, NH. Holmes lived a very easy childhood as he was a privileged kid. Holmes was strangely intelligent and showed a great amount of interest in medicine. Holmes would practice surgery on animals and is thought to be the cause of a death of a friend.

Notorious Psychopath Jeffrey Dahmer Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin there was a serial killer and sex offender known as Jeffrey Dahmer. This notorious killer did not only kill 17 men, but consumed some of the flesh of his victims and masturbated over one of the corpses through the late 70’s and most of the 80’s This killer had multiple trials but was not convicted for his crimes until early 1992. At a young age Jeffrey already had some psychological issues dealing with himself. When he was around 6 years of age he had a minor surgery done and the birth of his brother on the way.

Once inside, Dahmer drugged their beer and eventually ended up killing them. Everyone of his murders happened similar to that. Dahmer told police that all 20+ victims he had were all borderline criminals so nobody would notice or care about their disappearance as much. When the victims decided they wanted to leave, Dahmer went crazy. Resulting in a series of very disturbing murders (“Dahmer, Jeffrey

If you had to drop everything you had leave your life right now and go to pursue a better life, would you be able to do it? You would have to leave everything you have like your family, friends, and your job, to step out into an into an unknown world and start a new life. In the Devil in the White City, this was a thought that was running through many of the lower class and some middle class's mind looking for a new life or to trying to get money. There are many jobs that were available during the construction and during the fair like construction and cashiers or other positions for the stores in Chicago. Construction was one of the most important jobs/parts in the building of the fair so it was going to take a vast number of workers to be able

He would go into his victims homes and would kill them as they were sleeping. He was known as a charming loving, intelligent man, until he was guilty and murdering several women. He was found going on college campuses and would hit on women that looked young. He didn’t go for anyone his age. He confessed to 30 murders, but no one really knows how many he actually murdered.

“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can 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 since.” This quote was said by one of the first documented serial killers. This paper is going to state the early life, fraud, kills, and death of H. H. Holmes.

There were a plethora of people, so Holmes could turn people away with no suspicion, only allowing his selected victims to stay; which were overwhelmingly alone, unmarried, young, attractive women. No one knows for certain how many people he killed; the number ranges from at least 30 to as much as over 200. This number may also include the numerous women he married that suspiciously disappeared (H.H. Holmes,

A City of Prospering Light always shines through darkness, and that is just what the Chicago World’s Fair did during the 19th century. Regardless of mishaps and bleak points, such as the unfortunate successes of H.H. Holmes, the astronomical amount of positivity given to the world for years to come outweighed all of the negative points by far at the fair, also referred to as the Columbian Exposition. Inventions and architectural phenomena are delved into throughout the novelistic style non-fiction book The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. Larson took a bold approach and intertwined many storylines and lives of people throughout the construction and ongoing of the exposition. By doing so, he gave readers a unique insight into all of

While many claimed he adored children, Julia Conner, one of Holmes first victims, became pregnant and in return for their creation of life Holmes

there was a awful smell coming from his apartment. He had invited a police officer into his house to have a drink, the officer smelled something grossed later they came back and put him into custody. The officers had gone through boxes to find disturbing things in there such as: human heads and three bags of organs, chemicals skulls, painted skulls, skeleton, dried scalp, tools various videos blood soaked mattress and blood splatters and a King James Bible and they went through box after box collecting evidence. Jeffrey Dahmer was only charged with fifteen murders. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Holmes came to conclusion that doctors would make the greatest criminals simply because of the experience they have with poisons and chemicals. Doctors are very smart , so it is very likely that they would be able to think of a master plan. Also , they could think of every possible to way to commit a crime without leaving a trail of evidence . Doctors know many different chemicals and poisons that can kill people anonymously.