![]() ![]() Ironically, this very ruse would also be his undoing in the end. Some of the people would live to split the life insurance money with him and move on and some would not. This would be a common ruse he would use throughout his life and it would come to make him a lot of money. He would convince someone to take out a large policy for which he guaranteed he could produce an unidentifiable cadaver and then fake the insured party’s death and collect on the policy. Once he obtained his medical degree he immediately began the criminal art of the day known as “scamming” which was defrauding insurance companies for life insurance claims. 1884, graduation class photo University of Michigan Medical School And each time he fed his curiosity, his ego and manipulation skills grew stronger. Now, it was just him and his morbid curiosity. He had lost all feeling for fellow man or living things. Holmes found himself “cured” of his fear and instead incredibly curious about what lies beneath the skin of the human body and the many means that one could wind up dead. Or, perhaps it could have backfired, extinguishing the fear, replacing it with a morbid curiosity bolstered by a newfound bravery and lack of empathy or feeling of any kind. It could have had no effect and the child simply might have run out and eventually outgrown the fear with age and education. It could have crushed this poor child’s psyche, crippling him forever in some way. Clearly this could have gone one of three ways. One day they grabbed him and forced him into the empty office, pushing him closer and closer to the outstretched arms of the skeleton until he came face to face with its creepy, haunting grin. ![]() When he was ten he was terrified of the skeleton in the doctor’s office. This bullying would come to a peak with a pivotal event, changing young Herman forever and begin the formation of the monster we now call H.H. ![]() He was a slight, shy child with a strict religious upbringing backed by his disciplinarian father and god-fearing mother. He was often bullied and teased by his older classmates. Henry Howard Holmes was actually born Herman Webster Mudgett in 1861 in New Hampshire. So, now that I have clearly made my case, moving on because Holmes is STILL one of the most successful and most amazingly competent psychos you will EVER read about. In fact, in the Bender family, the DAUGHTER called the shots and ran things and everyone else followed her orders.) She’s just the first to get that kind of attention. (This family would also be my argument that Eileen Wuornos is not the first FEMALE serial killer. Holmes (he would have been 11 and hadn’t changed his name to Holmes yet), he CAN’T be the first American serial killer. Since this is before anyone ever heard of H.H. Second, there is actually record of an entire family that were true serial killers in 1872 that lived and operated Kansas, the Bender family. One journalist got it right back in 1895, calling Holmes just that after the horrors of his murder castle were discovered and he had been arrested. That is what Holmes should be categorized as, a multiple-murderer. If anything Manson was a multiple-murderer. So by very definition, we CANNOT call him a SERIAL KILLER. People make this same mistake with Charles Manson all the time. But, as far as I can tell, there was absolutely NO signature, his own personal mark or message, etc., to his murders whatsoever. Some of his victims he gassed, some he suffocated, others he poisoned and some we have no idea how he came to take their lives. He did use the same mode of murder each time nor did he use the same ruse to disarm them. His victims were not all the same kind of victim. There’s almost nothing of Holmes murders that overlaps to qualify him under these three categories. Yes, at the very basic level of the definition they have to kill three or more people but, it’s much more qualitative than quantitative. This bothers me somewhat because after watching true crime for twenty years and more, I know this not to be entirely true.įirst of all, when defining a murderer as a serial killer the authorities and mental health professionals look for three things: victimology, modus operandi, signature. Holmes is dubbed America’s First Serial Killer. ![]()
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