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Herman Webster Mudgett, America's Most Lethal Serial Killer May Have Killed 250 People

  1. H. H. Holmes.jpg
  2. Holmes opened a hotel in Chicago for the 1893 World's Fair, which he built himself and was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which 9 were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 250.

  3. Herman Webster Mudgett | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia ...

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Herman Webster Mudgett
Preferred alias: H.H. Holmes

The Devil in the White City

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The Devil in the White City
DWCity.jpg
Cover of The Devil in the White City
AuthorErik Larson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistory, True crime
PublisherCrown Publishers
Publication date
2003
Media typePrint (hardcover andpaperback)
Pages447
ISBN0-609-60844-4
OCLC54397544
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Crown Publishers, ISBN 0-609-60844-4) is a 2003 non-fiction book byErik Larson presented in a novelistic style. The book is based on real characters and events. Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the film rights in 2010.[1]
The book is set in Chicago, circa 1893, intertwining the true tales of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World's Fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, the serial killer who lured his victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed "Murder Castle."

Burnham and the architects

Holmes and associates


1895 newspaper image of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes
  • Herman Webster Mudgett (aka Dr. H. H. Holmes): a serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their deaths. Dr. Holmes had built his "World's Fair Hotel" complete with a gas chamber, dissection table, and a crematorium to dispose of the bodies. Holmes would remove the skeletons of his victims and sell them for medical and scientific study.
  • Clara A. Lovering: Holmes's first wife
  • Myrta Z. Belknap: Holmes's second wife
  • Lucy Holmes: Holmes's daughter with Myrta
  • Georgiana Yoke: Holmes's third wife
  • Julia Smythe: employee and lover of Holmes; wife of Ned Connor
  • Ned Connor: employee of Holmes; husband of Julia Smythe
  • Benjamin Pietzel: business associate (and murder victim) of Holmes
  • Carrie Pietzel: wife of Benjamin Pietzel
  • Howard, Nellie and Alice Pietzel: son and two daughters(respectively) of Benjamin and Carrie Pietzel.
  • Frank Geyer: detective in charge of finding Pietzel's children after Holmes was jailed for fraud
  • Thomas W. Barlow: assistant district attorney who prosecuted Holmes

Other figures

External media
Erik Larson 03B.jpgAuthor Erik Larson
Audio
 The Devil in the White City,Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, Larson interviewed by Scott Simon, 10:01, April 5, 2003
Video
 Booknotes - The Devil in the White City, C-SPAN, 58:00, September 14, 2003.

Film adaptation

Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the film rights to the book in 2010; the movie is to be produced by Warner Bros., Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg's Double Feature Films, and DiCaprio's own production company Appian Way.[2][3] Writer Graham Moore is adapting the book into a screenplay.[4]

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