Dr. Henry H. Holmes was the first recorded American serial-killer, at least in the modern sense of the term. He confessed to have murdered 27 people in Chicago during the time of the World’s Fair of 1893, but the body count is speculated to be much higher.He designed and built a hotel specifically to torture and kill his victims. The building featured trap doors, hidden staircases, secret passages, a crematorium, rooms without windows, chutes that led into the basement and a staircase that opened out over a steep drop to an alley. Some of his victims were meticulously dissected and the remains sold to medical universities.
Holmes feared some psycho might dissect him. After he was caught and sentenced, his final request was to be buried in concrete.
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Sounds like the life of a party... just remind me to not go to any parties at his place.
terrible... at least he was caught.
That's a crappy world fair....go there expecting to be amazing by technology and crap and you end up getting killed by some lunatic.
Ha, I like how he created this massive place for sadistic torture, yet was fearful of someone doing the same to him.
Was his request honoured?
Scary story and picture, indeed
Creepy... I have a thing for serial killers though. They're hot.
looks creepy really
Oh wow, that's quite gory
Murder Castle is definitely an appropriate name!
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the fact his last name was holmes makes it even more interesting
That was really creepy. There are probably tons of people like that who never got caught though.
That hotel sounds really cool.
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This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Flanders moves into a killer house.
this sounds really creepy.. something about murderers keeps you reading about them though lol.
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i love these kinds of creepy tales/stories/history. it's always really fascinating for some strange reason.
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spooky. I'd like to see the place with all the devices and whatnot.
Omg scary...
A creepy paranoid person who kills people. How strange.
wow that's creepy and crazy!
Wow. He thought this out.
In more recent times he probably would have been dissected to see how the mind/body of a serial killer was different to "normies"
great post. looking forward to reading your next one
thats insane what a psychopath !
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