Original Serial Killer: H. Holmes

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America's Original Serial Killer: H. H. Holmes Ted Bundy, The Zodiac Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy. All were well known killers, but all followed after America’s first, the infamous Herman Webster Mudgett, later known as H. H. Holmes. Born in New Hampshire in 1861, Holmes attended medical school at the University of Michigan where he proceeded to perform unethical actions like retrieving dead bodies from cemeteries to earn money. According to Holmes autobiography, where he tells the public his side of the story, at a young age Holmes was afraid of doctors offices and was locked in with a skeleton by bullies. As an adult, Holmes had a hotel built during the Columbian Exposition in Chicago during 1893. The ‘White City’ would be
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