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Herman Webster Mudgett
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The 'Murder Castle'
World's Fair Hotel
- Stairways leading no where
- Doors with locks
- Soundproof bedrooms
- Gas lines
- Trap doors and chutes
- The "Secret Hanging Chamber"
- Basement dissection room
- Appx. 200 murder victims
SCAMS
- Life insurance
- Holmes: Primary beneficiary
- Organ/Skeleton donor
- Benjamin Pitezel
Aftermath
Theories
Theory 1: Behaviour Theory/Social Learning Theory
Theory 2: Routine Activities Theory
Theory 3: Rational Choice Theory
- 1909, Hedgepeth, who had been pardoned for informing on Holmes, was shot and killed by police officer Edward Jaburek during a holdup at a Chicago saloon
- 1914, Quinlan, the former caretaker of the Murder Castle, commits suicide
- May 7, 1896, Holmes was hanged at Moyamensing Prison, also known as the Philadelphia County
Trial & Execution
Early Life
Capture and Arrest
Herman Webster Mudgett
- Arrested in Boston on November 17, 1894
- Police interview hotel employees
- Torture chambers and bodies uncovered
- 9 murders confirmed, confessed to 27, over 200 missing and dead
- D.O.B.: May 16, 1861
- Gilmanton New Hampshire, US
- Wealthy family
- Father: authoritarian alcoholic
- Mother: strict Methodist
- Bullied by peers
- October 1895, Holmes trial for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel
- Found GUILTY, sentenced to death
- Following his conviction, Holmes confessed to 30 murders in Chicago, Indianapolis and Toronto
Obsession
H. H. Holmes
- Fear of doctors
- Age 10: Chemistry and Human Anatomy
- University of Michigan Medical School in 1882
- The cycle begins...
Herman Webster Mudgett
AKA H.H. Holmes
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