Describe The Differences Between Holmes And Myrta

The same year Holmes and Myrta had a child named Lucy.
Upon completion three years later, Holmes moved his drugstore into the bottom floor of the Castle and rented space out to other shops to maintain a normal appearance. The second floor contained his office and living space, while the third floor contained spacious “guest” rooms. The inside of the Castle housed a maze containing over 60 windowless rooms with one-way doors, false floors, trapdoors, doors that opened to brick walls, stairways leading to nowhere, sliding walls, sound-proof rooms, greased chutes and more. The Castle’s key features included asphyxiation chambers, iron (noise reducing) plates, blowtorches fixed into walls, dissecting tables, acid vats, alarms and a crematory.
Over 20 million people toured Chicago during the six months that the fair took place. Supplies and strangers spilled in and out of the city, leaving the police distracted and unable to keep up with the sudden burst of criminal activity. Holmes and Pitezel hired single woman as maids and secretaries, promising them life insurance policies. Pitezel believed that they were simply scamming the insurance companies as the beneficiary of the woman’s policies, but Holmes was actually murdering the women. Out-of-town guests came and went from the Murder Castle. Some were locked in gas chambers while others were locked in suffocation vaults near Holmes’s office where he could hear them scream. Eventually the bodies of the victims were dropped down a chute and into a furnace. Holmes cleaned the bones, rearticulated the skeleton and sold his victim’s remains to medical schools. No one suspected H.H. Holmes, the successful businessman who ran The
Holmes’s murder spree. The Murder Castle was his design and playground. Herman Mudgett was sociopathic and suffered from antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. Characteristics of antisocial personality disorder include no anxiety, pathological lying, egocentricity and the absence of conscience (Dobbert, 2014). Herman exhibited signs of antisocial personality disorder from a young age. He dissected and performed surgery on dead and alive animals. It is also rumored that he killed a playmate as a young boy after being bullied (Herman, 2014). As an adult, he effortlessly lied to his friends and wives. He manipulated insurance companies and medical schools, while mercilessly torturing young woman. The bodies found by police in the Murder Castle were badly mutilated and nearly impossible to identify. The doctor sold most of his victim’s skeletons to medical schools and universities. He killed for curiosity, convenience and money. There is no evidence that Herman Mudgett ever showed remorse for any his crimes. He took pride in his work and claimed to be turning into the devil himself because he felt no guilt over what he did and didn’t care about his victims (H.H. Holmes, 17). The doctor also suffered from narcissistic personality disorder. He selfishly exploited others to achieve his goals and lacked any emotional connection to his victims. He was intelligent and dishonest. During construction of the