H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer

H. H. Holmes was a sociopathic monster in the late 1800’s who not only killed anywhere from 27-200 people, including the women he brutally murdered, but also those he manipulated into believing he was a good person, making him the monster he is today. Although Holmes was born into an affluent family and lived a privileged childhood, no one expected him to become the monstrous character he is known as today. As a child, Holmes was very intelligent, and rather normal, but as he grew up in New Hampshire, some signs of unusual interests had peaked. One of his interests was anatomy, which led him to practice surgery on animals. Exploring this interest, Holmes studies as a medical student at the University of Michigan. Behind closed doors, he stole corpses which he used to conduct …show more content…
H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer, Holmes had a three-story building constructed, with the funds from the pharmacy creating, and demanded elaborate modifications to it's design. He never truly paid for the construction either, consistently firing men after jobs were half done because he did not want to pay for the labor. The higher floors were where he slept, but the thirty-five small rooms were the place where he tortured and killed his victims. Additionally, before the building was constructed Holmes had an airtight vault put in and was the crime scene of various murders. Not only is this a monstrous act, but the psychotic scheming and the disposal of his victims was very well thought out. He connived each and everyone of his victims, not considering the victims families, as a true sociopath would. Furthermore, to make matters worse, some rooms contained gas jets to asphyxiate his victims, and others contained trapdoors and chutes making it more convenient to move the bodies to where he could dispose of them. At this point Holmes seems to be killing for sport and for entertainment, which is also a sociopathic and monstrous

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