In Gilmanton, New Hampshire there lived a small, odd child named Herman Webster Mudgett. Often was he bullied for these traits. One day, his peers made him physically face his fear - skeletons. Mudgett became fascinated with it, kickstarting his curiosity of death. He started dissecting small animals and insects. As he grew older he met a young girl that came to be his childhood sweetheart. However, she wouldn’t exactly agree. She found Holmes to be grimy, often calling him a monster. Holmes took the rejection as a chance to change and prove her wrong which lead him to excel in school. From high school he went to medical school, obviously keeping his own dark interests in mind. In all his efforts he only thought to prove everyone wrong and …show more content…
It was there that he realized the desperate demand for human skeleton models. The school would accept models without question as to how it was obtained which he noted. However, he found that the school was too small and didn’t suit him. He moved to Ann Arbor to attend the University of Michigan. It was bigger and known for it’s emphasis on the controversial art of dissection. Mudgett felt at home in the new school and was putting his brain to work. During this time was was given a job offer as a traveler for a book publisher. Vermont and Michigan were both big advancements to Mudgett, to go anywhere outside of small, quiet Gilamont was pleasing. Mudgett accepted and prepared for northwestern Illinois. On his journey he came upon the windy city and he was swept off his feet. The city was dark, grimy, full of poverty and infirmity, and there was a forbidding heaviness to the smoky polluted air. It was perfect for Mudgett. But, he had to finish medical school before he went off doing other things. By the time he graduated in June of 1884 he had left a mark on the university. His professors didn’t have anything special to say about his intelligence but his overall presentation of himself was not to be