Dr. Henry Holmes Accomplishments

Herman Webster Holmes known as Dr. Henry H. Holmes or H.H. Holmes was a famous American serial killer. Holmes was born on May 16 , 1861 in Gilmanton, NH. Holmes lived a very easy childhood as he was a privileged kid. Holmes was strangely intelligent and showed a great amount of interest in medicine. Holmes would practice surgery on animals and is thought to be the cause of a death of a friend. Holmes was a con-artist and a hustler. He was known to lure people in with what he sold and he would poison them. Holmes began his life of crime as a medical student at the university of michigan. Holmes would steal corpses and would claim false insurance on them. He would also use the bodies for experiments on the quickest ways to murder the people that he was soon to kill. After school Holmes moved to Chicago he began to work in a

Holmes would begin to steal the meds he worked with and would take them to his three story home which he had built when he moved to Chicago. His home was called the “Murder Castle”. He would lure kids and/or adults into his “Murder Castle” then he would poison and torture them. In his “Murder Castle” there were chutes and other ways to transport the bodies to the basement so he can set them on fire and burn there remains. Holmes was a very sick and evil man and would do this for quite some time until he would soon get bored with this and would go and join the fair. Holmes had another con man that claimed dead so that way they could claim a $10,000 life insurance claim. They both would go and sell things that would “make you feel better” but in reality these were just poisonous liquids that he would use just to kill people. The Police would soon catch on to