"America's First Serial Killer," the man with the Murder Castle, the man who killed three children and dissolved his girlfriends in acid... This week we took a deep dive into the life of H.H. Holmes.

Wanna head down the rabbit hole? Check out these links and resources.

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• Resource: The Holmes-Pitezel Case by Frank Geyer.

  
  

• Direct Link (Internet Archive): Read the Full Book Here

  • Tip: Go to Page 155 to see the photos of Alice, Nellie, and Howard that Geyer carried with him.

Here is the unglamorous 1894 police booking photo taken in Boston. It shows Holmes without the "dapper" charm.

• Direct Link (Wikimedia Commons): H.H. Holmes 1894 Mugshot

The "Sensational" Diagram (New York World, 1895): This is the famous one with the "Hanging Room" and "Maze." It looks cool for Instagram, but it's exaggerated.

• Link: Library of Congress - New York Journal Article (This page also contains his "Devil" confession text).

If you want to screenshot the actual newspaper where he claimed to be the devil, it is from The Philadelphia Inquirer or The New York Journal, April 1896.

• Search Term for Google Images: "H.H. Holmes I was born with the devil in me newspaper clipping"