HENRY HOWARD HOLMES

The Life of H.H Holmes -aka- The Torture Doctor

1860- Herman Webster Mudgett was born in a small town of Gilmanton, New Hampshire
As a child Mudgett was a scholarly student but had morbid tendencies such as setting a neighbor's cat on fire
1878- Mudgett attended the University of Michigan
1878- First marriage to Myrta Belknop
1885- Mudgett changed his name to Henry Howard Holmes
1888- Holmes worked in Chicago as a drugstore chemist
1891- Holmes sold the drugstore for a large fortune
1891- Holmes bought a big building and transformed it in to his
1896- Holmes was arrested after the murder of a confederate and later hanged on May 7, 1896 in Philadelphia

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