Join Kelli as she explores the real history behind HH Holmes - born Herman Webster Mudgett - and how he became known as America's first serial killer. Was he the man we know him as today? Or is his story of a murder house and the deaths of tourists in Chicago just a legend?

This episode is part of a two-episode look into two late 19th century murdered - Holmes and Jack the Ripper - and how they became integral parts of our histories as infamous killers.

Sources referenced:
H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric

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