There were doors and stairwells that led to nowhere, and hidden and closed rooms throughout the building. Szabelski notes that there were reports that the building also had a lot of strange oddities to it when it was built. Meanwhile, everything back in those days was lit with gas lamps, and the story goes the connections to the gas lamps were outside the room – set up such that Holmes could turn on the gas and asphyxiate people at will. Inside Holmes’ castle, the story goes that the rooms could not be locked from the inside of the room – only outside. View of the massive Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building, as seen beyond a bridge over the Basin in the White City section of World’s Columbian Exposition. The building was originally two stories high – with storefronts including a drugstore on the ground floor, and apartments above. The Crime Museum reports Holmes hired and fired numerous crews during the construction period so they wouldn’t be able to figure out what he was really up to with the building. What is known is that Holmes did take over the pharmacy, and had the building that became known as the Murder Castle constructed across the street between 18. Holton and her husband, William, also actually outlived Holmes by several years and were still living in Chicago after Holmes was executed – the old pharmacist dying of cancer was a myth that was apparently spread by Holmes himself, Selzer reports. Holton – the initials stood for Elizabeth Sarah. The implication is that most believed Holmes probably killed her.īut in a 2013 article, Adam Selzer of Mysterious Chicago reports some aspects of this tale are not accurate. Holton disappeared, and Holmes claimed to everyone that she’d moved to California – and she was never heard from again, the story goes. Holton, whose wife took over the store when he died. The commonly-heard story goes that the drugstore was owned by an elderly man with terminal cancer named Dr. The pharmacy appears to have been located on the northwest corner of 63rd and Wallace streets, where an Aldi store with a vast parking lot can now be found. Henry Howard Holmes, the Crime Museum tells us.
Holmes moved to Chicago around 1885 after finishing medical school, and began working at a pharmacy under the name Dr. He graduated from high school early and attended medical school at the University of Michigan – where the Crime Museum says the story is he stole cadavers from the school’s laboratory, disfigured or burned them, and then planted the bodies to suggest they’d been killed in accidents – while taking out insurance policies on the deceased people in question and collecting the money. Holmes was born Herman Webster Mudgett in New Hampshire.
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Holmes, known as America’s first serial killer, confessed to the murder of 27 people in the 1890s.
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