What Is The Moral Of H. Holmes America's First Serial Killer

The documentary H. H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer follows the life of the brilliantly sadistic criminal mastermind, Herman Webster Mudgett, notoriously known under his alias, Henry Howard Holmes. Through his manipulative tactics, expertise in chemistry and anatomy, and meticulously devised creations, America would encounter one of its most monstrous and depraved beings to ever taint the nation with horror.

Like many serial killers, H. H. Holmes had a traumatic childhood of receiving abuse from his parents and peers. With both of his parents being devout Methodists, a Protestant Christianity denomination, he had a profound religious upbringing, which appears paradoxical to his fascination with death as an adult. But there would come

Once ready, he wanted to elude his former relations and acquaintances, hence born the new identity, Henry Howard Holmes. This rebirth enabled him to separate himself from his past and leave it behind, a past he loathes. Along with being devoutly religious, his parents were strict disciplinarians and demanded absolute obedience from him or otherwise he would be harshly punished. This authoritarian parenting approach was perhaps the root of his desire for manipulation and conning. As an adult, he now wants an inordinate amount of power and control in his life after lacking them from growing up with severely strict parents. He wants that gratification from overpowering others and challenging authorities. He’s able to scam creditors, evade law enforcement, lure women, deceive people from his tracks, lie to his wives where they would even defend him in court. He was still telling lies to the public on the scaffold before he was about to be hanged, leaving them to wonder the extent of his malevolence. He enjoys letting people believe in the falsehoods as he is one step ahead of

H. H. Holmes achieved this, his dream career with the “Murder Castle.” After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Chicago was vigorously rebuilding into a booming financial city, excellent for real estate development and spawning job opportunities for people in the nation and around the world. The time was perfect for his new identity and to begin life as Henry Howard Holmes and he knew it too. He moved to Chicago after his streak of jobs across the Midwest and constructed his infamous murder hotel. He was able to take everything that he learned, from conning people to operating on cadavers, and now practice it on real humans and conduct a profitable business out of it. When building his hotel, he would pay for certain things with credit but didn’t intend to pay for it. He would create phony inventions and gain funders for them. He’d rent rooms from his hotel to tourists, especially when the World’s Columbian Exposition was open to the public in Chicago. And after he’d kill the customers during their stay, he would clean their skeletons and sell them to colleges and medical schools. It might appear that he’s a greedy, money-loving capitalist but he’s not doing this just for the sake of having money and being rich. He’s capitalizing on his obsession and for his obsession. He wants the money to fund his bloodlust craving, to be able to continue exercising his