H.H. Holmes America's first serial killer

H.H. Holmes was born in 1861 to Theodate and Levi and graduated from Phillips Execter Academy teached in Alton, New Hampshire and later graduated from the University of Vermont and became a doctor in 1884. 
== Murders ==
He later moved to Chicago were he murdered Robert Leacock for insurance money and bought an empty building next to a drug store and turned it into a hotel to lure victims during the 1892 World Columbian Exposition. He would claim Julia Smythe a mistress who Holmes knew had died during an abortion on Christmas Eve of 1891, along with Emeline Cigrande in May of 1892 along with Emily Van Tassel. He would later meet carpenter Benjamin Pitezel who would be his partner in crime, he would later leave Chicago in 1894 and Benjamin faked his death and his wife got 10,000$ dollars and Benjamin changed named to B.F. Perry, Holmes would later kill Benjamin and claimed he'd committed suicided and killed Benjamins kids Alice, Nellie, and Howard.
== Execution ==
He later arrested in Boston after the police found teeth and bones in his chimney and was hanged in 1896 for first degree murder.