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H.H Holmes - College Essay

H.H Holmes

Herman Webster Mudgett was born May 16,1861 Gilmanton,New Hamphire where his father was wealthy and respected citizen and had been the local promaster for nearly 25 years. Early in life Mudgett dropped his given name and became known as H.H Holmes a name which he attended medical school and began his career in crime he was constanly in trouble as a boy and young man.

In early years Mudgett was remembered for his cruelty to animals and smaller children. His only redeeming trait was that he always was an excellent student and did well in school. In 1878 he married Clara Lovering the daughter of a farmer in Loudon that same year he bagan studying medicine at a small college in ...

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out the plan with an accomplice who had became a prominent doctor in New York he left Ann Arbor and abandoned his wife and infant son Clara moved to New Hampshire and never saw Holmes again. Holmes posed as a inventer at the age of 25 he married a women name Myrtle Z. Belknap the daughter of a wealthy businessman a man that Holmes had unseccessfully tried to swindle and kill. Holmes first known killing was a women named E.S Holton in 1887 Holmes started workin as her assistant in a local drug store in Chicago ran by Mrs.Holton. In 1887 Mrs.Holton went missing without a trace Holmes claimed Mrs.Holton moved West and got a huge income and owned the drug store.

At the age of 29 Homles came up with a killing scheme that would change the face of horror. Holmes brought a lot across from his drug store and built what is called the castle of horror also known as the murder castle. It had 3 floors first floor was his new drug store and the torture room and execution chambers ...

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Added: 4/5/2011 09:00:03 PM
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