Results: The Murder Castle Of H.H. Holmes', America's First Serial Killer---Please click on photos 1 and 4 to read and see better. :)

H.H. Holmes' is widely regarded as America's first serial killer, a title which he claimed with a vengeance during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Holmes', a pharmacist that has 200-250 murders to his name---his story will chill you. Have you heard and or learned about this infamous serial killer?

Holmes' had taken over a Chicago pharmacy from a cancer-stricken man named E.S. Holton. After Holton died, Holmes' bought the drugstore from Holton's wife and agreed to let her continue living above the store. However, when it became apparent that Holmes' wasn't going to pay, she filed a lawsuit against him--- and then she disappeared. Now that she was out of the way, Holmes' purchased a much larger lot right across the street from the drugstore and began building a hotel. The hotel that Holmes' built was not of the ordinary kind. The 'Murder Castle' that he build had air-tight chambers and a room of steel, lined with asbestos, where the wildest shrieks of his victims would be deadened. Most of the rooms were windowless, with stairways to nowhere and hallways that ended in dead ends; its interior, honeycombed with trap doors and secret passageways. Did you know that the 'Murder Castle' had hundreds of rooms?

The murderous proprietor then hand-picked female guests and employees and abducted them into the depths of the hotel, where he locked them in soundproof rooms and...experimented. Have you learned that Holmes' was a former medical student who was once on his way to becoming a surgeon?

Other than all the murders he committed, Holmes' was also a fraud. He was caught up in an insurance fraud scheme, the police committed to a search of his residing place, which was the castle, this was how the murders were revealed. Does this sound like the most horrifying and terrifying hunted house you can dream of?

Holmes' was also a businessman who found clever ways to profit from his sickening hobby---after stripping the bodies, Holmes' often sold the skeletons to universities. Do you think he deserves to rank with the 'great' criminals of history?

He was finally arrested in Boston (for horse fraud), and a series of investigations led detectives to discover one of the most gruesome crime scenes in history: The Murder Castle. Holmes' was executed (hung) in 1896, and the terrible building later burned to the ground; It's now a post office. If this story/man intrigues your interest would you ever buy the book called The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, that was based on Holmes' life and crimes--- non-fiction book by Erik Larson?

Do you think it's sick that people get tattoos of serial killers?