Premise: Herman Webster Mudgett ( May 16 , 1861 -- May 7 , 1896 ) , better known under the name of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or more commonly H. H. Holmes , was one of the first documented serial killers in the modern sense of the term . While he confessed to 27 murders , only nine could be plausibly confirmed and several of the murders he confessed to were people who were still alive . Besides being a serial killer , Holmes was also a successful con artist and a bigamist , the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone .
Hypothesis: H. H. Holmes was a criminal.
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