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Henry Howard “H.H.” Holmes Famous memorial Original Name Herman Webster Mudgett Birth 16 May 1861 Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, USA Death 7 May 1896 (aged 34) Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA Burial Holy Cross Cemetery Yeadon, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 39.927684, Longitude: -75.2576763 Plot Sec. 15, Range 10, Lot 41, Graves 3 & 4 Memorial ID 2415 2415 View Source Share Save to Suggest Edits Suggest Toggle Dropdown
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Convicted Murderer. He is one of the most prolific convicted murderers in the United States with him confessing to at least 27 killings. Born Herman Webster Mudgett, he used the alias of Henry Howard Holmes. He studied medicine and worked as a druggist in Chicago. During the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, he was the proprietor of the infamous "Murder Castle", which had hidden rooms, concealed stairways, trap doors, false walls, chutes, an elevator with no shaft and an elevator shaft with no elevator. After running a help-wanted ad in Chicago newspapers for a secretary, he would employ the young single lady. Over time his would develop a romantic relationship with her with promises of marriage and have her make him beneficiary of her life insurance policy. While she was sleeping, he then would chloroform her, then torture her in his sound proof room, and eventually gassed her to death. He repeated the scenario over and over, killing numerous women. Leaving Chicago, he relocated first to Fort Worth, Texas and then to Philadelphia where he devised an insurance scam using a family named Pitezel as accomplices. He killed Benjamin Pitezel, the head of the family, with poison, and he along with Pitezel's wife claimed the insurance monies. He killed the Pitezel children by gassing Pitezel's two daughters, Alice and Nellie, in a trunk and somehow killing Pitezel's young son, Howard, whose charred skull was found in a stove. After getting a tip from a prison acquaintance of his advising them of the insurance scam, the insurance company hired a Philadelphia "super detective", Frank P. Geyer, to find him. He was brought to trial by Geyer for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel. Found guilty of murder, he was hung at the Moyamensing Prison gallows on May 7, 1896. Some have speculated the total number of his murders could be as high as 200 victims, yet he was convicted of one.

Convicted Murderer. He is one of the most prolific convicted murderers in the United States with him confessing to at least 27 killings. Born Herman Webster Mudgett, he used the alias of Henry Howard Holmes. He studied medicine and worked as a druggist in Chicago. During the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, he was the proprietor of the infamous "Murder Castle", which had hidden rooms, concealed stairways, trap doors, false walls, chutes, an elevator with no shaft and an elevator shaft with no elevator. After running a help-wanted ad in Chicago newspapers for a secretary, he would employ the young single lady. Over time his would develop a romantic relationship with her with promises of marriage and have her make him beneficiary of her life insurance policy. While she was sleeping, he then would chloroform her, then torture her in his sound proof room, and eventually gassed her to death. He repeated the scenario over and over, killing numerous women. Leaving Chicago, he relocated first to Fort Worth, Texas and then to Philadelphia where he devised an insurance scam using a family named Pitezel as accomplices. He killed Benjamin Pitezel, the head of the family, with poison, and he along with Pitezel's wife claimed the insurance monies. He killed the Pitezel children by gassing Pitezel's two daughters, Alice and Nellie, in a trunk and somehow killing Pitezel's young son, Howard, whose charred skull was found in a stove. After getting a tip from a prison acquaintance of his advising them of the insurance scam, the insurance company hired a Philadelphia "super detective", Frank P. Geyer, to find him. He was brought to trial by Geyer for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel. Found guilty of murder, he was hung at the Moyamensing Prison gallows on May 7, 1896. Some have speculated the total number of his murders could be as high as 200 victims, yet he was convicted of one.

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Family Members

Parents

  • Levi Horton Mudgett

    1827–1911

  • Theodate Page Price Mudgett

    1827–1903

Spouses

  • Clara A. Lovering Peverly

    1860–1956 (m. 1878)

  • Myrta Belknap Holmes

    1862–1924 (m. 1886)

  • Wilhelmina Rayford "Minnie" Williams Holmes

    1868–1893 (m. 1893)

Siblings

  • Ellen Maria Mudgett Flanders

    1840–1932

  • Arthur Prescott Mudgett

    1856–1931

  • Henry Levi Mudgett

    1866–1900

  • Mary Adams Mudgett Fowle

    1871–1921

Children

  • Robert Lovering Mudgett

    1880–1956

  • Lucy Theodate Holmes Moss

    1889–1956

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