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