Herman Webster Mudgett: Serial Killer

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

He was physically and mentally abused and he was often starved and even isolated. His father often even stuffed a rag filled with kerosene down his throat to keep him and other children quiet. He later then ran away from home and into a forest which also led him to start dissecting animals. At first it was reptiles, then mammals he became obsessed with skeletons which also led him to being obsessed with death. When he was employed at the pharmacy in Chicago he worked well and the owner passed away and Herman convinced the widow to sell the pharmacy to him. The widow soon went missing and was never seen again. Herman told those that asked that she moved to California but it was never proven. After becoming the owner of the drugstore he purchased an empty lot across the street and soon built a 3 story hotel which the neighborhood called the castle. Herman hired and fired many construction workers so he’d be the only one that would know the layout of his hotel. He built many traps into the base of his