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Countess Maelice111:
Herman Webster Mudgett (1861 - 7 May 1896) was a 19th-century serial killer.
He was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, son of Levi Horton Mudgett and his wife, formerly Theodate Page Price. His early criminal career (mostly using the pseudonym Dr. H. H. Holmes) was based on fraud and forgery, including a cure for alcoholism, real estate scams, and a machine that made natural gas from water.
He managed to secure a Chicago pharmacy and the property attached to it (by defrauding the pharmacist), and built a row of three-story buildings on it. The bottom floor was shops, the top his personal office, and the middle floor a maze of over one hundred windowless rooms. He called it The Castle and opened it as a hotel for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Women checked in, but they didn't check out. Over a period of three years, Mudgett tortured his selected victims in soundproof and escapeproof chambers which were fitted with gas lines that permitted Mudgett to asphyxiate the women at any time. Once dead, their bodies went by chute to the basement, where they were either sold to medical schools or cremated.
He was discovered when a fire broke out in the building, revealing the carnage therein to the police and firemen, though he might have been caught eventually anyway, as he had taken out insurance policies on some of his victims before killing them.
The estimates placed the number of victims as between 20 to 100, including mostly women but some men and children; some estimates go as high as 200. Mudgett (as Holmes) was put on trial for murder, and confessed to 28 murders (in Chicago, Indianapolis and Toronto) and 6 attempted murders. He was hanged in 1896 in Philadelphia.
chaoticpsyche:
--- Quote from: Countess on November 27, 2010, 05:19:01 PM ---Here's a cute young thing...10 years old 7 victims.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/bell/index_1.html
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hmmm, creepy one Countess but good!
I'm not sure if Leopold or Loeb have been mentioned, I don't remember.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/loeb/index_1.html
Barek Halfhand:
--- Quote from: Countess on January 21, 2010, 06:42:42 PM ---H.H. Holmes & his murder castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes
Peter Kurten http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_K%C3%BCrten
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I'm reading "A Devil In The White City" now actually ...few realize that the first (documented) American serial killer prowled Chicago's south side amid the opulence of the 1893 Columbian Exposition fair...this happened in the wake of the "Jack The Ripper" case in London dominating headlines the previous year ...
a post office now stands on the corner once occupied by the infamous Holmes Murder Castle ....b
Countess:
Adolfo Constanzo "El Padrino de Matamoros"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Constanzo
chaoticpsyche:
Robert Pickton I'm not sure if this one has been mentioned, it's been a while since I've gone through the list. I appologize if he has been mentioned before. Now that I think about it, I think I might have mentioned him earlier.... >_<
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/robert_pickton/1.html
Here is one that I'm sure I didn't mention lol.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/jerry_brudos/index.html
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