H. H. Holmes
American con artist and serial killer (1861-1896) · United States · On the map · Died at 34
Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894.
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Holmes' Castle
The Englewood post office at 63rd and Wallace Streets; Holmes' "Castle" site was just at the far left adjoining the post office building
On August 11, 1895, Joseph Pulitzer's The World published a fictional floor plan of Holmes' "Murder Castle" with (left to right and top to bottom): a vault, a crematorium, a trapdoor in the floor, and a quicklime grave with bones.
A newspaper account of Holmes's confession, including hand-drawn illustrations of the judge at his trial and ten of his suspected victims.
Benjamin Pitezel
April 12, 1896 William Randolph Hearst's The Journal with Holmes' confession
The April 12, 1896, edition of New York Journal, showing the exterior and interior of Holmes' "Castle"; the bottom picture is the trunk he used to murder the Pitezel sisters.About this person
By the time of his execution in 1896, Holmes had engaged in a lengthy criminal career that included insurance fraud, forgery, swindling, three or four bigamous marriages, horse theft, and murder. Known as the Beast of Chicago, the Devil in the White City, or the Torture Doctor, his most notorious crimes took place in Chicago around the time of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.