A serial killer is one who murders 2 or more people in a period of time, where there is ‘down time’ between each murder. They typically choose their victims carefully, and the places in which these people are murdered. There have been many serial killers captured and convicted in the United States, and each had something different about them that set them apart from the others. Some were more sadistic, some killed for fun, and some had reason behind their killings. Many of these people led normal everyday lives, they had families, jobs, no one in their community knew the horrors they committed when no one else was watching. There have been many famous killers in United States history, and I will go over their histories and motives in this essay. One of the…show more content… When he was younger, he performed surgery on animals, and is even believed to be the cause of the death of one of his friends, but as he grew older, he became even more interested in the human body, and spent a lot of his time in the morgue working on cadavers to learn more of their anatomy. In the year of 1885, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he put his medical knowledge to use by working in a pharmacy. This is where he used the alias which we all known him as today, Dr. Henry H. Holmes. Eventually, he had taken over the pharmacy business, and is rumoured to have killed the owner in order to take the business. He soon started construction on what is now the famous “Murder Castle”. This is perhaps why H.H. Holmes became so famous, as the three-story construction was a very elaborate house of horrors. During the construction of this building, H.H. Holmes would continuously switch out construction crews so that no one would for sure know the layout of the building, except for himself. He used the building as a hotel complex, which is how he lured his victims in, during the time of the Chicago World Fair. The upper two floors
