H.H. Holmes was America's first serial killer believed to have killed nearly 200 people in the late 19th century.H.H. Holmes was America's first serial killer believed to have killed nearly 200 people in the late 19th century.H.H. Holmes was America's first serial killer believed to have killed nearly 200 people in the late 19th century.
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- TriviaErik Larson's 2010 book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is about the serial killer H.H. Holmes and his connection to the building of the White city at the 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago.
- GoofsJeff Mudgett's theory that H.H. Holmes could have been Jack the Ripper has a flaw in it. The Castle was being built at the time Jack the Ripper was active. Eyewitness testimony during Holmes trial put him on the job site almost every day both to supervise and keep workers from figuring out some of his secrets. Therefore he could not have been in England at the time.
- ConnectionsFeatured in History Buffs: From Hell (2017)
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Wasted time
Well I learned two irrevocable things about this series: #1. I wasted 8 hours of life watching it. #2. We still don't know who The Ripper was. This series lost me on series 7 when Jeff Muddget convinces himself, after every other expert debunks all his theories, that H.H. Holmes escaped his own hanging death and exacted revenge on all the people that assisted in his capture or criminal trial. What's worse is although quite sexy in her own way, the CIA operative Amaryllis Fox actually entertained this theory. The first few episodes I found somewhat entertaining as it did shed facts of the crimes, and hopes that there was some plausibility to the claim Holmes was linked. All in all, I guess The History Channel succeeded in what they set out to do and that was to get people to watch. I confess I watched all 8 episodes but I figured, "what the hell," I've already wasted 6 hours of this debacle.
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- Aug 31, 2017
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