HAUNTED CHICAGO THE MURDER CASTLE OF H.H. HOLMES AMERICA'S FIRST SERIAL KILLER AND THE GHOSTLY LEGACY HE LEFT BEHIND THE HANDSOME & CHARMING HH HOLMES PREYED ON THE PEOPLE OF CHICAGO DURING THE 1890'S. HE IS WIDELY REGARDED AS THE FIRST SERIAL KILLER IN AMERICAN HISTORY. The city of Chicago, Illinois has seen more than its share of crime over the years, from the bloody excess of Prohibition to ...

Summer 1999 U-M's Most Murderous Alumnus Mr. Herman Mudget, aka H.H. Holmes By Cara J. Spindler Among the items in the Medler Crime Collection in the Clements Library is Holmes, the, Arch-Fiend, or A Carnival of Crime, the story of a Michigan alumnus who has the dubious distinction of being the first identified serial killer in the United States. Herman Webster Mudgett (1861-1896) graduated from ...

The bad doctor America somehow has forgotten the 'Monster of 63rd Street' EDITOR'S NOTE -- In those nether regions of fire and brimstone where the worst among us are shunted after death, Jack the Ripper no doubt confronted Dr. H.H. Holmes. But Jack would have to take a back seat to this evil doctor whose diabolical deeds defy credulity. By Dave Ivey, Associated Press writer PHILADELPHIA -- A ...

DOCTOR'S VICTIMS: On April 9, 1896, just weeks before his execution, H.H. Holmes signed a statement of gruesome detail telling how he had murdered 27 people. He retracted the confession just before his hanging May 7, saying he killed only two women. This is a partial list: Dr. Robert Leacock of New Baltimore, Mich., a former schoolmate Dr. Holmes killed in 1886 for $40, 000 in life insurance. Dr.

Enter Herman Mudgett. A charming swindler and ingenious crook who would stop at nothing to make a dollar. His greed and cunning made his life nothing but a maze of forgery and fraud. Countless numbers of victims lost not only their money but their lives in a morbid killing machine he called his Castle. In Chicago, he schemed his way into owning a conjoined row of turreted, three story buildings.