On the other hand we have Dr. H. H. Holmes. He stated that he was “born with the devil”. Not only was a he a frivolous murderer but he also did deranged things. When a local pharmacy went on sale, Holmes quickly bought it and made larges plans to turn it into a murdering sanctuary equipped with secret rooms and weird vaults. This he used to lure his victims in and then murder.
In his novel Hunting Humans, Elliott Leyton examines multiple murders in an attempt to explain their motives and origins, and to determine why America, in particular, has the highest rate of multiple murderers in the modern world. In general, these killers follow a common theme. They often come from the working or lower middle classes, and come to feel excluded from a class or social group that they fervently wish to join. As revenge, they act against innocent strangers, targeting members of the class or group that they feel excluded from. Though this theme persists through all multiple murderers, the term blankets both serial killers and mass murderers.
In his book “The black book of serial killers” (2), he describes and defines the two crime characteristics. He states that depending on their IQ they are either “organized” or “disorganized”. While speaking about the “Vampire of Dusseldorf” (Peter Kürten) the profiler says, “Peter Kürten is a hardened criminal whose career spans over thirty years. When he was denounced in 1930, it is because he knew he was about to get caught. Like any psychopath organized, it's him who wants to have the last word and manipulate those around him.” Indeed the principal characteristic of an organized serial killer is to control him self during the crime, to live with a partner (he asked his wife to denounce him so then she could get the reward) and to be able to the dominate the conversation.
After some time, Holmes purchases the lot across the street from the pharmacy where he is working and builds an elaborate home for himself; the first floor consisting of a pharmacy and the second and third floor having rooms which could be rented. As the Fair arrives he turns his home into the World’s Fair Hotel. The rooms become extremely convenient for many of his killings. Holmes married few women and killed many while going bankrupt in the process. After fleeing Chicago he is eventually caught in Philadelphia and charged with insurance fraud.
He would lure people, mainly women, inside this castle and torture and kill them there. Holmes was arrested in 1894 for life-insurance fraud. Through this investigation the police searched the castle and found the rooms where Holmes would torture and kill his victims. Holmes did confess to killing twenty-seven people. However, some estimates are said to be as high as 230 victims.
Hanged Man Ian Rankin, “The Hanged Man” is a story that takes place in a fairground, where a man named Mort is assigned to kill a Gypsy at a fairground. The reader then finds out later that the person he is trying to kill is his own Mother ‘Rosa’ and the person who assigned him was his Father. The writer uses clear and effective description by using a variety of different techniques. One of the techniques that the Author uses is setting, this is to help the reader imagine what is happening in the story so it gives them a feeling that they are there. One good example of this in The Hanged Man is, “The killer wandered through the fairground”.
Many of the men were representing the intellectual elite of the Nazi party. Of the 25 Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommando leaders, 15 of them were doctors of jurisprudence or philosophy or had a PhD. The job that the Einsatzgruppen had was to eliminate Polish political opponents and Jews. Initially, they were able to not only use force against armed resistance, strikes and sabotage, but also accuse irregulars and spies before a court and sentence them to death. This was still not satisfactory for Reinhardt Heydrich and although 200 people were being executed a day he thought that they must be shot and hanged without trial.
His success in finding and slaughtering his prey was often due to his meticulous planning and preparation. In other moments he simply seized upon the opportunity to charm a woman he met without any prior planning. Bundy would lure her to a place where he could rape and kill her. Bundy sometimes killed his victim before rapping her. He killed as many as 35 women, although authorities suggest that there may have been more (Bell, n.d.).
I wanted to see a murder weapon used or some prop, but all i got was a behind the curtain poison in the drink murder. Typical way to kill someone you want to get rid off. Just ask all the Kings in the early ages how cowardly it was to kill a person with poison because most of the Kings where the victims!. Overall yes it did have me on the edge of my seat felling like a true detective taking notes and discovering who is the true murderer. Even though I did not guess correctly I was involved in the play and I am not an actor which I think was fun and creative by the Director himself.
Uguer Sperti 7 Honors psych America’s first documented serial killer Herman Webster Mudgett otherwise known as H. H. Holmes was America’s first documented serial killer. Holmes was estimated to have killed over 200 men and woman in his career. At an early age Holmes was exceedingly smart. Holmes took on an interest in medicine and human anatomy at a young age as well. During Holmes’s collage career he stole dead bodies from the school morgue and used them in various insurance scams.