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T. H. Holmes: The First American Serial Killer
H.H. Holmes is known to be the first American serial killer. Holmes would murder people, mutilate their bodies, and sell their skeletons to science. His most famous work was the “Murder Castle”. His Murder Castle was his very own hotel, which had secret rooms, to kill multiple people in, most were women. The Castle was located in Chicago and gave Holmes a good chance to kill many people in 1893 during the World’s Fair.

Holmes was also a doctor. He studied at the University of Michigan Medical School and got a job at a pharmacy in Chicago. His actual name is Herman Webster Mudgett, but at 16 he changed his name to Henry Howard Holmes. Holmes had at least eight aliases and used them for different crimes at different places. This included the
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