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H.H. Holmes, widely considered to be the nation’s first serial killer, was apprehended after being tracked to the West End in 1894.

In the city’s history, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 is perhaps one of its grandest moments — Chicago’s emergence on the world stage as a new metropolis rising fr…

Dr Henry H. Holmes, an infamous killer and conman in Chicago in the 19th century, was executed on May 7, 1896 in Philadelphia after a life of horrific crimes.

This is a hand-drawn cutaway of H.H. Holmes’ Murder Castle. I compiled blueprints, case notes, and other references in an effort to render the building as accurately as possible. It’s drawn with Micron liner pens and colored in Photoshop. Scroll down to see detail shots, the process, and references.

If the building could be the home to a super villain or evil corporation, it belongs here or really just any creepy looking building or maybe...

H.H. Holmes was married to three women at the same time. |Holmes first married Clara Lovering, then Myrta Belknap, and finally, Georgiana Yoke. Of course, this womanizing murderer married them all under different names to avoid being caught. His crimes: Holmes confessed to murdering 27 people in his “murder castle” hotel, though authorities suspect that number is much higher.

Torture Chambers. Acid Vats. Secret Passageways. At the height of this criminal career, the infamous Dr. H.H. Holmes designed his castle of horrors in

For years, Herman Webster Mudgett (H H Holmes) was consiered the most prolific mass murderer in US history - and will live on in infamy as America's first serial killer.

The first known & convicted Serial Killer in the United States H.H. Holmes

But [Holmes’] castle, it now seems, as its labyrinths are explored, was his principal place of operation, and there it was that he planned and schemed and where many beautiful women are belie…

Read 4 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Eyewitness Accounts, Diagrams and Pictures What was the "Murder Castle" really like? Account…

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In 1873, Mark Twain coined the term “The Gilded Age” to describe a superficially prosperous America undergirded with massive social problems, corruption, even deep wells of horror. On…

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The Holmes murder castle as it appeared shortly before demolition in 1938, 63rd and Wallace, Chicago.

The infamous "devil in the White City" remains mired in myth 125 years after his execution

H.H. Holmes was one of America's first serial killers. He lured victims into his hotel, the “Murder Castle”. This guide provides access to materials related to the “H.H. Holmes” in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers.