“I was born with the devil inside of me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer (Holmes).” This is what Henry H. Holmes said after killing around two hundred innocent Americans. Holmes built a murder castle and killed his friend and his children, even a celebrity. Henry Holmes was a famous con artist and serial killer who would seduce and kill women and then collect their life insurance from them. From hearing about his troubled past, his college schemes, and horrific plans, Holmes was certainly correct when he said he was born with the devil. When authorities checked Holmes’ “Murder Castle” they were horrified by the scene in his basement. Born on May 16, 1861, when America’s first serial killer was brought into the world. Levi Horton …show more content…
“...some accounts of his life even suggest that he killed a childhood playmate (Jenkins).” Holmes was an intelligent student and even went to the University of Michigan, where he graduated, worked at a pharmaceutical company, and built his house. Henry Mudgett would always do farm chores with his five siblings in the little town of Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Born into a religious family, Mudgett was always loved and taken good care of by his mother. At the young age of five, Mudgett attended Gilmanton Academy. When walking to school, he would pass by the village doctor, and from a young age he was always fascinated by medicine. However, he wasn’t fascinated right away. “I had been brought face to face with one of its grinning skeletons, which, with arms outstretched, seemed ready to seize me (Mudgett).” When he saw his first skeleton at a young age, he was terrified but later started feeling strongly about understanding medicine. Three years later, a traveling, crippled photographer came to the dormant town. The photographer accepted Mudgett’s invitation to be an errand boy for him and even took a strong liking to