How Did Holmes Contribute To Mental Illness

Born on May 16, 1861, H.H. Holmes’s real name was Herman W. Mudgett, and he originated from Gilmanton, New Hampshire. In his early childhood, he was eager to learn about everything he could. He was even considered a child prodigy, and had a fascination with anatomy. However, his childhood got the best of him and growing up with a father who was an alcoholic, and being bullied by other kids at school seemed to have changed his behavior, attitude, and look on life, and he became a bitter person. He used to torture neighborhood cats and dissect them, and when felines weren't enough, he moved on to human specimen. He did well in school, graduated, and eventually became a student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. During his

However, this would not be the first time this incident would occur, for he had a pattern that he would conduct with the bodies that would go missing. He would pose the bodies in a way that it would appear an accident had occurred, and then he would collect accident insurance on the body. He claimed that by seeing the body, he had been traumatized and later he would demand compensation and that he deserved it due to going through a traumatic experience. He continued this method, and then left school after. Before leaving, he obtained degrees in both medicine and surgery from the University of Michigan in 1884. He left his wife and child after creating an over stratified lie, stating that he was on his way to another job to allow for more income to be brought into the house, and instead went off to live the life of a fugitive. During his entire life, Holmes married three times, and had a total of two children. His crimes started off small, he started with a small account of fraud, and then moved on to try and scam an insurance company with the same method he had been using at his university with an unidentified corpse and try to get insurance money. After this attempt, he met his second wife and he started yet again on small cases of fraud, this time credit card

This idea involved a place where people from all over would visit, people in which he could scam, and easily dispose of them. He built a sort of hotel, in which people would be able to stay in whilst traveling.The building was so large, that construction should have taken six months, but took three times as long to finish the building. To make sure no one other than himself knew the layout of the building, he would hire and then fire construction workers, and rehire new construction workers so that they only worked on a small portion of the castle. He would accuse the construction workers of insufficient work and tell them to leave. He saved funds this way, and was able to continue on the work of his castle in peace with no one able to get in his way, not even the police , who were suspicious with all of the attention the castle was drawing in. However, police were drawn away from their suspicion of Holmes because of the trust and all of the good things the citizens of Chicago had to say about Holmes. In 1892, Holmes announced he would be renting out rooms to guests for the first time. For the most part, people were excited to see what this massive had to offer loggins wise. However, the guests would be surprised to find all the erie dim lighted hallways, with rooms that were at odd angles, and would be even more frustrated when they would have a hard time finding their rooms. Of course, only Holmes knew the layout