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Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execution in 1896, Holmes had engaged in a lengthy criminal career that included insurance fraud , forgery , swindling , three or four ...
The "Beast of Chicago", H.H. Holmes, confessed to 28 murders -- but many experts suspect he may have had a hand in the gruesome deaths of as many as 200 people.. Herman Webster Mudgett was born on ...
H. H. Holmes (MED: MD 1884), born Herman Webster Mudgett, 19th-century serial killer; one of the first documented American serial killers; confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed; actual body count could be as high as 250; took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; his story was novelized by ...
Mudgett, an English-language family name and place name in America, may refer to: Mudgett Township, Minnesota Herman Webster Mudgett , a.k.a. H. H. Holmes , 19th-century American serial killer
If you've ever read The Devil in the White City, then you'll be familiar with Herman Webster Mudgett, aka H. H. Holmes. Evan Peters's character on American Horror Story: Hotel , was loosely based ...
Author Erick Larson in his book Devil in the White City renders with great precision a literary description of this deadening of higher feeling states in reference to America's first serial killer, Herman Webster Mudgett, alias Dr. H.H. Holmes "…Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belkamp [the antagonist] uneasy. He ...
May 7 – Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, serial killer, executed (born 1861) May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner, novelist and poet (born 1855) May 13 – Nora Perry, poet, journalist and children's author (born 1831) May 31 – Homer V. M. Miller, U.S. Senator in Georgia from 1871 (born 1814)
Herman Webster Mudgett (1860–1896) – American serial killer; Conrad Murray – convicted of involuntary manslaughter in death of pop star Michael Jackson; Arnfinn Nesset – Norwegian serial killer; William Palmer – British poisoner; Marcel Petiot – French serial killer; Herta Oberheuser (1911–1978) – Nazi human experimentation