H.H. Holmes
Running head: SERIAL KILLER H. H. HOLMES
H. H. Holmes Valerie Jones Theories of Criminal Behavior September 23, 2012 Phillip Neely
Abstract
The United States first known serial killer was named H. H. Holmes. H. H. Holmes would later be said to be an alias created by Herman Webster Mudgett who was a doctor. It was said that Herman as a child had a privileged childhood. As a young child Holmes appeared to be remarkably intellectual. According to Holmes’s personality traits; there were lingering signs of what was to come. It was at an early age Holmes had a connected curiosity of medicine, which was apparently directed to medicine. During much of Dr. Holmes life he started doing shady things at an early age and was considered a loner. According to research the starting point in H. H. Holmes spiral to murder would be as a child bullies initially wanted to scare Herman, his schoolmates forced human skeletons on him. Holmes was not scared actuality Holmes became fascinated. Holmes soon became obsessed with death. H. H. Holmes would later become a brilliant swindler, a petty cheat, who turned out to be a mass murderer; whom also had a tortuous mind. Holmes pyramided fraud upon fraud upon people who later became his victims of his crime. Holmes was a young, attractive, superficial man, who fascinated professional men and mesmerized nice young women, later three of whom he wedded bigamously. H.H. Holmes deserves to be one of the greatest criminals of time. Crime writers have reserved the word “monster” for murderers like H. H. Holmes. H. H. Holmes met these certain rigid requirements as seen later in his life. Life History
According to records
H. H. Holmes Valerie Jones Theories of Criminal Behavior September 23, 2012 Phillip Neely
Abstract
The United States first known serial killer was named H. H. Holmes. H. H. Holmes would later be said to be an alias created by Herman Webster Mudgett who was a doctor. It was said that Herman as a child had a privileged childhood. As a young child Holmes appeared to be remarkably intellectual. According to Holmes’s personality traits; there were lingering signs of what was to come. It was at an early age Holmes had a connected curiosity of medicine, which was apparently directed to medicine. During much of Dr. Holmes life he started doing shady things at an early age and was considered a loner. According to research the starting point in H. H. Holmes spiral to murder would be as a child bullies initially wanted to scare Herman, his schoolmates forced human skeletons on him. Holmes was not scared actuality Holmes became fascinated. Holmes soon became obsessed with death. H. H. Holmes would later become a brilliant swindler, a petty cheat, who turned out to be a mass murderer; whom also had a tortuous mind. Holmes pyramided fraud upon fraud upon people who later became his victims of his crime. Holmes was a young, attractive, superficial man, who fascinated professional men and mesmerized nice young women, later three of whom he wedded bigamously. H.H. Holmes deserves to be one of the greatest criminals of time. Crime writers have reserved the word “monster” for murderers like H. H. Holmes. H. H. Holmes met these certain rigid requirements as seen later in his life. Life History
According to records
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