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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:26,254 --> 00:01:29,457 Humanity has achieved great heights. 2 00:01:29,490 --> 00:01:31,325 We have landed on the moon, 3 00:01:31,359 --> 00:01:34,628 place a powerful computer in our pockets, 4 00:01:34,662 --> 00:01:36,764 cured numerous diseases, 5 00:01:36,797 --> 00:01:39,433 and brought the world the most evil 6 00:01:39,467 --> 00:01:42,102 and deranged serial killers. 7 00:01:53,581 --> 00:01:56,350 There are very few that stand out quite as much 8 00:01:56,384 --> 00:02:00,321 as H.H. Holmes and his murder hotel. 9 00:02:12,866 --> 00:02:16,069 In fact, his notoriety is so great 10 00:02:16,103 --> 00:02:19,240 that Hollywood embarked on a blockbuster about him. 11 00:02:19,273 --> 00:02:21,842 Now it has even claimed that Britain's 12 00:02:21,875 --> 00:02:25,513 most notorious serial killer, Jack The Ripper 13 00:02:25,546 --> 00:02:28,015 was none other than Holmes himself. 14 00:02:41,295 --> 00:02:44,097 He presided over The Castle, 15 00:02:44,131 --> 00:02:48,869 a devilish, architectural creation in downtown Chicago 16 00:02:48,902 --> 00:02:52,206 made specifically to murder people. 17 00:03:03,617 --> 00:03:07,120 Trap doors, chutes, false doors 18 00:03:07,154 --> 00:03:10,157 hidden passageways and spy holes 19 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:14,328 made the Murder Castle the infamous building of its age. 20 00:03:28,342 --> 00:03:30,878 Many victims were beaten to death, 21 00:03:30,911 --> 00:03:34,081 some were strangled, others gassed, 22 00:03:34,114 --> 00:03:36,684 and yet more were tortured on racks 23 00:03:36,717 --> 00:03:38,819 before they lost their lives. 24 00:03:52,032 --> 00:03:53,734 When he was finally caught, 25 00:03:53,767 --> 00:03:56,337 he confessed to 27 murders. 26 00:03:56,370 --> 00:03:58,606 Although it is believed by many, 27 00:03:58,639 --> 00:04:00,073 that he murdered over 200. 28 00:04:09,283 --> 00:04:11,652 Somebody help me. Someone help. 29 00:04:11,685 --> 00:04:12,886 Please help us. 30 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:14,955 But it is not the number of deaths 31 00:04:14,988 --> 00:04:17,190 that is the cause of his devilish fame. 32 00:04:18,326 --> 00:04:21,629 It is, in fact, the methods he used. 33 00:04:21,662 --> 00:04:24,965 This is the tale of the evil dark lord 34 00:04:24,998 --> 00:04:28,035 of the murder hotel, guts and all. 35 00:04:40,314 --> 00:04:44,485 His real name was Herman Webster Mudgett, 36 00:04:44,518 --> 00:04:46,787 and he was born in 1861. 37 00:04:48,188 --> 00:04:51,392 He has become one of America's most famous serial killers 38 00:04:51,425 --> 00:04:54,261 under the name of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes. 39 00:05:10,043 --> 00:05:13,714 But his tale is not so easy to decipher. 40 00:05:13,747 --> 00:05:17,284 Of the 27 people he claimed to have murdered, 41 00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:19,019 there was a problem. 42 00:05:19,052 --> 00:05:22,556 Some of them were in fact still alive when he confessed. 43 00:05:34,535 --> 00:05:36,937 Of the 200 he supposedly killed, 44 00:05:36,970 --> 00:05:39,172 we discover that this myth originated 45 00:05:39,206 --> 00:05:41,341 in a pulp magazine from the 1940s. 46 00:05:53,687 --> 00:05:57,658 It is stated he murdered his victims in the murder hotel 47 00:05:57,691 --> 00:06:01,228 close to the 1883 World Fair. 48 00:06:01,261 --> 00:06:03,130 In fact, the hotel itself 49 00:06:03,163 --> 00:06:05,265 was never truly opened to the public. 50 00:06:13,674 --> 00:06:15,809 So what is the truth? 51 00:06:15,843 --> 00:06:19,547 What did this enigmatic evil man really get up to? 52 00:06:27,921 --> 00:06:32,225 The other side of Holmes was as a con artist and bigamist 53 00:06:32,259 --> 00:06:36,396 with over 50 lawsuits in the Chicago area alone. 54 00:06:36,430 --> 00:06:40,367 But beware because not only was Holmes a con artist 55 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,070 but much of that is claimed about him 56 00:06:43,103 --> 00:06:44,972 is equally based on fiction. 57 00:06:52,946 --> 00:06:55,048 His own life was a lie, 58 00:06:55,082 --> 00:06:58,251 and so too are a great many of the stories about him. 59 00:07:06,359 --> 00:07:09,730 In order to unravel the mind of the murderer, 60 00:07:09,763 --> 00:07:12,566 we need to understand his character and background. 61 00:07:13,867 --> 00:07:15,836 Unlike the police of the period, 62 00:07:15,869 --> 00:07:19,607 we need to be more like FBI agents and profile him. 63 00:07:20,874 --> 00:07:23,410 This involves understanding his early life, 64 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:26,814 what created him, what forces pushed him 65 00:07:26,847 --> 00:07:29,416 towards the life that he decided to lead? 66 00:07:41,361 --> 00:07:44,832 His life began in Gilmanton, New Hampshire 67 00:07:44,865 --> 00:07:46,667 on May the 16th, 1861. 68 00:07:56,877 --> 00:08:00,380 Both of his parents were descendants of English settlers, 69 00:08:00,413 --> 00:08:03,216 and Herman was the third child. 70 00:08:03,250 --> 00:08:06,119 In all, he had an elder sister and brother 71 00:08:06,153 --> 00:08:08,288 and a younger sister and brother. 72 00:08:08,321 --> 00:08:11,258 He was the middle child, nothing special. 73 00:08:24,672 --> 00:08:26,907 The family were foreigners. 74 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:31,111 They would do whatever they needed to in order to survive: 75 00:08:31,144 --> 00:08:34,782 farming, trading, and even painting houses. 76 00:08:35,983 --> 00:08:38,485 Along with the majority of people of the period, 77 00:08:38,518 --> 00:08:40,253 they were devout Christians, 78 00:08:40,287 --> 00:08:43,090 and in their case Methodists. 79 00:08:56,637 --> 00:08:59,807 There is no evidence that he was in any way cruel 80 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:01,909 or even abused during this time. 81 00:09:03,110 --> 00:09:05,178 These are things we would have expected, 82 00:09:05,212 --> 00:09:08,281 and indeed these are things that have been claimed 83 00:09:08,315 --> 00:09:10,517 and found to have no basis in fact. 84 00:09:20,761 --> 00:09:23,864 Herman lived a perfectly ordinary childhood 85 00:09:23,897 --> 00:09:25,332 as far as we can tell. 86 00:09:26,533 --> 00:09:28,969 He graduated from high school at 16 87 00:09:29,002 --> 00:09:32,072 and proceeded to take on teaching jobs in Gilmanton 88 00:09:32,105 --> 00:09:33,406 and nearby Alton. 89 00:09:34,307 --> 00:09:37,010 He eventually met Clara Loving, 90 00:09:37,044 --> 00:09:41,214 and they married on July the 4th, 1878. 91 00:09:41,248 --> 00:09:45,252 They had a son, Robert Loving Mudgett two years later. 92 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:51,024 Robert would himself go on to live a perfectly ordinary life 93 00:09:51,058 --> 00:09:53,593 and become an accountant and city manager 94 00:09:53,627 --> 00:09:55,428 in Orlando, Florida. 95 00:10:11,578 --> 00:10:13,346 After a short time under the 96 00:10:13,380 --> 00:10:15,749 apprenticeship of Dr. Nahum Wright, 97 00:10:15,783 --> 00:10:18,551 where he learned about human dissection, 98 00:10:18,585 --> 00:10:20,420 Herman managed to get himself into 99 00:10:20,453 --> 00:10:25,458 university in Burlington, Vermont when he was only 18. 100 00:10:26,326 --> 00:10:27,795 But spent only one year there 101 00:10:27,828 --> 00:10:31,298 due to being dissatisfied with the university itself. 102 00:10:36,503 --> 00:10:40,507 In 1882 he enrolled into the University of Michigan 103 00:10:40,540 --> 00:10:42,810 in the Department of Medicine and Surgery. 104 00:10:57,891 --> 00:10:59,392 During his time there, 105 00:10:59,426 --> 00:11:03,596 he worked in the anatomy laboratory under Professor Herdman. 106 00:11:03,630 --> 00:11:05,999 He graduated in 1884. 107 00:11:07,434 --> 00:11:11,705 His time around anatomy and human cadavers would later 108 00:11:11,739 --> 00:11:15,542 enable him to use them to defraud insurance companies. 109 00:11:20,547 --> 00:11:25,552 By 1884 Clara left Herman and moved back to New Hampshire. 110 00:11:26,286 --> 00:11:27,354 She never saw him again. 111 00:11:32,359 --> 00:11:34,561 Their housemates would later state 112 00:11:34,594 --> 00:11:37,597 that Herman was violent towards Clara. 113 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,649 Herman then moved to Mooers Forks, New York. 114 00:11:56,683 --> 00:11:59,419 Where things started to emerge. 115 00:11:59,452 --> 00:12:01,321 Rumors started to circulate 116 00:12:01,354 --> 00:12:03,190 that he had been seen with a young boy. 117 00:12:04,024 --> 00:12:05,625 He never denied this. 118 00:12:05,658 --> 00:12:08,528 When the boy disappeared he claimed the boy had 119 00:12:08,561 --> 00:12:11,031 simply gone back to his parents in Massachusetts. 120 00:12:25,512 --> 00:12:28,048 There was no evidence that could stick 121 00:12:28,081 --> 00:12:32,886 no boy, no body and so there was no investigation. 122 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:34,687 Herman fled town soon after. 123 00:12:40,994 --> 00:12:43,296 He ended up in Philadelphia 124 00:12:43,330 --> 00:12:45,899 and managed to get a job as a keeper 125 00:12:45,933 --> 00:12:47,767 at the Norristown State Hospital. 126 00:12:48,902 --> 00:12:51,171 It lasted a few days and he resigned. 127 00:12:52,605 --> 00:12:55,575 He then appears to have landed a job at a drugstore. 128 00:12:55,608 --> 00:12:59,046 Again things turned sour when a young boy died 129 00:12:59,079 --> 00:13:01,949 from drugs sold to him at the very same store. 130 00:13:18,365 --> 00:13:22,635 Herman was accused and again denied any wrong doing. 131 00:13:22,669 --> 00:13:26,539 He fled again and just before he arrived in Chicago, 132 00:13:26,573 --> 00:13:29,709 he changed his name to Henry Howard Holmes. 133 00:13:34,915 --> 00:13:38,185 It is obvious that this was to avoid having himself 134 00:13:38,218 --> 00:13:41,221 linked by anybody to previous misdemeanors. 135 00:13:50,663 --> 00:13:52,900 Later in his confession 136 00:13:52,933 --> 00:13:55,268 Holmes claimed that about this time 137 00:13:55,302 --> 00:13:57,270 he had killed his former classmate 138 00:13:57,304 --> 00:14:00,840 Dr. Robert Leacock for insurance money. 139 00:14:00,874 --> 00:14:05,012 In fact, Dr. Leacock died in Watford, Canada in 1889. 140 00:14:19,426 --> 00:14:22,829 At the same time as this fictitious murder, 141 00:14:22,862 --> 00:14:25,265 Holmes in fact married Myrta Belknap 142 00:14:26,266 --> 00:14:27,935 while still married to Clara. 143 00:14:29,402 --> 00:14:32,505 He did actually file divorce papers after marrying Myrta 144 00:14:32,539 --> 00:14:35,042 alleging Clara had cheated on him. 145 00:14:35,075 --> 00:14:38,211 There was no evidence that Clara ever saw the papers 146 00:14:38,245 --> 00:14:40,247 or that she committed adultery, 147 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:41,814 and the divorce never happened. 148 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,190 He did go on to have a daughter with Myrta. 149 00:14:50,223 --> 00:14:51,691 Her name was Lucy, 150 00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:54,494 and she would become a school teacher later in life. 151 00:15:07,007 --> 00:15:08,675 They all lived together in 152 00:15:08,708 --> 00:15:12,179 Wilmette, Illinois for a short while. 153 00:15:12,212 --> 00:15:14,681 But Holmes was getting into a habit, 154 00:15:14,714 --> 00:15:18,218 and on January the 17th, 1894, 155 00:15:18,251 --> 00:15:21,989 he married Georgiana Yoke in Denver, Colorado 156 00:15:22,022 --> 00:15:24,757 while still being married to Clara and Myrta. 157 00:15:38,371 --> 00:15:43,376 However, we must go back to 1886 and Chicago in order 158 00:15:44,677 --> 00:15:47,647 to get to the more interesting element of his life. 159 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,717 It was this year that he arrived in Chicago 160 00:15:50,750 --> 00:15:52,719 and where he discovered the drugstore at the 161 00:15:52,752 --> 00:15:55,522 southwest corner of South Wallace Avenue 162 00:15:55,555 --> 00:15:57,924 and West 63rd Street in Englewood. 163 00:16:14,141 --> 00:16:17,644 It was owned by Elizabeth S. Holton, 164 00:16:17,677 --> 00:16:19,712 and she gave Holmes a job. 165 00:16:21,181 --> 00:16:24,617 Amazingly he proved himself to be a hardworking employee 166 00:16:24,651 --> 00:16:28,088 and eventually a deal was struck and he bought the store. 167 00:16:29,556 --> 00:16:32,525 Some have claimed that Holmes murdered Mr. and Mrs. Holton. 168 00:16:32,559 --> 00:16:35,228 But the truth is that both lived out their lives 169 00:16:35,262 --> 00:16:37,797 in Englewood into the 20th Century. 170 00:16:51,344 --> 00:16:54,714 Another example of the fiction surrounding Holmes, 171 00:16:54,747 --> 00:16:56,649 and a warning for us about believing 172 00:16:56,683 --> 00:16:58,418 everything claimed about him. 173 00:17:04,991 --> 00:17:06,593 Business boomed for Holmes, 174 00:17:06,626 --> 00:17:11,064 and he soon purchased an empty plot opposite the drugstore. 175 00:17:11,098 --> 00:17:13,166 He had plans. 176 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,935 By 1887 construction on a 177 00:17:15,968 --> 00:17:19,306 two-story mixed use building began. 178 00:17:19,339 --> 00:17:22,842 His intention was for apartments on the second floor 179 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:25,212 and retail space on the ground 180 00:17:25,245 --> 00:17:27,514 with a super new drugstore on the first. 181 00:17:44,131 --> 00:17:46,999 In 1888 he was already being sued 182 00:17:47,033 --> 00:17:51,003 for nonpayment to the architects and steel company. 183 00:17:51,037 --> 00:17:54,874 But by 1892 he was adding another floor. 184 00:17:54,907 --> 00:17:57,377 His plan he told his investors 185 00:17:57,410 --> 00:17:59,979 was to turn the upper portion into a hotel 186 00:18:00,012 --> 00:18:03,283 for the upcoming World's Columbian Exposition. 187 00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:22,369 In fact, the hotel portion was never completed. 188 00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:32,679 As if the world of Holmes couldn't get anymore bizarre, 189 00:18:32,712 --> 00:18:35,748 this is where the sickness begins to reveal itself. 190 00:18:40,487 --> 00:18:44,224 The supplier of his furniture investigated 191 00:18:44,257 --> 00:18:47,527 because of nonpayment and found that he been 192 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,163 hiding their materials in hidden rooms 193 00:18:50,197 --> 00:18:52,965 and passages throughout the whole building. 194 00:18:52,999 --> 00:18:55,235 In fact, it was such a scandal 195 00:18:55,268 --> 00:18:57,937 that news of the investigation hit the press. 196 00:19:09,716 --> 00:19:12,885 Investors were shown these articles by a jeweler 197 00:19:12,919 --> 00:19:15,888 from the building and they pulled out. 198 00:19:15,922 --> 00:19:18,090 Then another twist. 199 00:19:18,124 --> 00:19:20,693 The third floor strangely caught fire 200 00:19:20,727 --> 00:19:24,163 on August the 13th, 1893. 201 00:19:24,197 --> 00:19:27,200 The only people believed to be in the building at the time 202 00:19:27,234 --> 00:19:30,637 were residents and long-term employees. 203 00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:35,208 It transpired that Holmes had taken out insurance policies 204 00:19:35,242 --> 00:19:39,011 on the building with no less than four companies. 205 00:19:39,045 --> 00:19:41,581 They all sued him. 206 00:19:55,662 --> 00:19:57,664 The life of Holmes thus far 207 00:19:57,697 --> 00:20:00,433 appears to be as a bigamist and con artist 208 00:20:00,467 --> 00:20:03,770 with a couple of possible child murders thrown in. 209 00:20:03,803 --> 00:20:06,239 But what about the serial killing? 210 00:20:06,273 --> 00:20:07,707 Where did all that begin? 211 00:20:13,780 --> 00:20:18,351 One of the earliest victims we know of is Julia Smythe. 212 00:20:18,385 --> 00:20:20,953 She was the wife of Alex Conner, 213 00:20:20,987 --> 00:20:23,290 a resident of the building and employee. 214 00:20:24,624 --> 00:20:27,694 She was also the mistress of Holmes himself. 215 00:20:39,706 --> 00:20:42,108 Conner discovered the affair. 216 00:20:42,141 --> 00:20:45,512 He resigned and left his wife and daughter behind 217 00:20:45,545 --> 00:20:46,879 to the fate of Holmes. 218 00:20:52,585 --> 00:20:56,389 Smythe and her daughter remained at the Holmes hotel 219 00:20:56,423 --> 00:20:59,526 and continued her relationship with him. 220 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:03,430 Then Christmas 1891 they both disappeared. 221 00:21:13,806 --> 00:21:15,442 Holmes would later claim 222 00:21:15,475 --> 00:21:18,378 that she had died during an abortion. 223 00:21:18,411 --> 00:21:20,313 It was never discovered exactly 224 00:21:20,347 --> 00:21:23,015 what happened to both mother and child, 225 00:21:23,049 --> 00:21:27,354 but it is known they both suffered at the hands of Holmes. 226 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:46,005 In May 1892 Emeline Cigrande started working at the hotel. 227 00:21:47,574 --> 00:21:50,276 She too began an affair with Holmes, 228 00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:52,845 and she too disappeared the following December. 229 00:21:53,980 --> 00:21:56,749 The same thing happened to Edna Van Tassel 230 00:21:56,783 --> 00:21:59,051 who simply vanished off the face of the Earth. 231 00:22:12,732 --> 00:22:16,403 For a time Holmes worked at the Chemical Bank building 232 00:22:16,436 --> 00:22:20,407 on Dearborn Street where he met Benjamin Pitezel 233 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:24,310 a carpenter who was exhibiting a coal bin invention. 234 00:22:25,211 --> 00:22:27,179 The two became close friends, 235 00:22:27,213 --> 00:22:31,250 and with Benjamin's criminal record there is little wonder. 236 00:22:31,283 --> 00:22:32,985 Together they plotted 237 00:22:33,019 --> 00:22:36,088 and conceived various criminal schemes. 238 00:22:36,122 --> 00:22:40,226 In fact, Benjamin was nothing more than the tool of Holmes 239 00:22:40,259 --> 00:22:42,962 as the district attorney would later state. 240 00:22:54,507 --> 00:22:57,309 Minnie Williams had been an actress. 241 00:22:57,343 --> 00:23:01,113 She moved to Chicago and soon she landed a job 242 00:23:01,147 --> 00:23:04,250 with Holmes at his hotel as his stenographer. 243 00:23:17,864 --> 00:23:20,232 Through his persuasive ways, 244 00:23:20,266 --> 00:23:22,569 he had soon convinced Minnie to sign over 245 00:23:22,602 --> 00:23:26,038 the deed to her property in Fort Worth, Texas 246 00:23:26,072 --> 00:23:28,374 to a man named Alexander Bond. 247 00:23:29,308 --> 00:23:31,511 This man was in fact Holmes. 248 00:23:32,479 --> 00:23:34,346 Holmes served as the notary 249 00:23:34,380 --> 00:23:37,750 and later signed the deed over to Benjamin Pitezel 250 00:23:37,784 --> 00:23:40,119 under the name of Benton T. Lyman. 251 00:23:41,554 --> 00:23:44,190 Following this Holmes and Minnie rent an apartment 252 00:23:44,223 --> 00:23:46,793 in Lincoln Park as man and wife. 253 00:24:02,441 --> 00:24:06,378 Minnie invited her sister Nannie over to stay. 254 00:24:06,412 --> 00:24:08,380 She wrote a letter to her aunt 255 00:24:08,414 --> 00:24:11,217 that she was off to Europe on a trip. 256 00:24:11,250 --> 00:24:14,453 Neither Minnie nor Nannie were ever seen again. 257 00:24:20,493 --> 00:24:23,195 Even as all of this was happening, 258 00:24:23,229 --> 00:24:24,831 it is believed that his victims 259 00:24:24,864 --> 00:24:27,667 in the Murder Castle were piling up, 260 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:31,738 gassed, tortured, beaten, and worse. 261 00:24:45,718 --> 00:24:47,887 Most bodies would never be found, 262 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,757 and the exact number of his victims unknown. 263 00:24:58,464 --> 00:25:01,167 Most were probably sent down the body chutes 264 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,436 into the basement where they were incinerated 265 00:25:04,470 --> 00:25:07,306 or disposed by acid baths. 266 00:25:07,339 --> 00:25:10,476 Some were skinned and kept for observation, 267 00:25:10,509 --> 00:25:12,979 and others reduced to bones which he sold. 268 00:25:26,959 --> 00:25:29,228 But things were not looking good for Holmes. 269 00:25:29,261 --> 00:25:31,330 His various criminal activities 270 00:25:31,363 --> 00:25:33,800 were beginning to reach a peak point. 271 00:25:33,833 --> 00:25:37,036 Insurance companies were after him for arson. 272 00:25:37,069 --> 00:25:41,874 In July 1894 he fled Chicago for Fort Worth 273 00:25:41,908 --> 00:25:46,245 to take up property he had inherited from Minnie and Nannie. 274 00:25:46,278 --> 00:25:47,780 He had learned nothing 275 00:25:47,814 --> 00:25:52,118 and decide to begin erecting yet another castle or hotel 276 00:25:52,151 --> 00:25:54,921 in the same vain as the one in Chicago. 277 00:26:09,135 --> 00:26:11,871 He proceeded to con several suppliers. 278 00:26:13,272 --> 00:26:16,475 For the very first time Holmes was actually arrested 279 00:26:16,508 --> 00:26:19,445 on the charge of selling mortgage goods, 280 00:26:19,478 --> 00:26:21,948 goods he did not own. 281 00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:38,597 Every area of his life has its opportunities. 282 00:26:38,631 --> 00:26:41,000 While in jail he found friendship 283 00:26:41,033 --> 00:26:43,870 with the convicted outlaw Marion Hedgepeth. 284 00:26:45,304 --> 00:26:48,975 Holmes had a cunning plan to con an insurance company 285 00:26:49,008 --> 00:26:51,343 out of a massive $10,000. 286 00:26:52,511 --> 00:26:55,414 He would take out a life policy on himself 287 00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:57,516 and then proceed to fake his own death. 288 00:26:58,918 --> 00:27:01,620 All Hedgepeth had to do was give Holmes the name of 289 00:27:01,654 --> 00:27:05,825 a lawyer who could be trusted with such a devious plan 290 00:27:05,858 --> 00:27:08,828 and in return he'd get a $500 commission. 291 00:27:24,977 --> 00:27:27,780 He was guided towards a lawyer in St. Louis 292 00:27:27,814 --> 00:27:29,982 called Jeptha Howe, 293 00:27:30,016 --> 00:27:32,218 who was in practice with his elder brother. 294 00:27:33,619 --> 00:27:37,189 Neither of the brothers had any links to Holmes or Pitezel, 295 00:27:37,223 --> 00:27:39,892 and so there could be no connections. 296 00:27:39,926 --> 00:27:40,926 It was perfect. 297 00:27:41,961 --> 00:27:44,797 Jeptha thought the plan was inspired, 298 00:27:44,831 --> 00:27:47,433 and they proceeded to carry it out. 299 00:27:47,466 --> 00:27:51,738 However, the insurance company soon became suspicious 300 00:27:51,771 --> 00:27:53,873 and refused to pay out. 301 00:27:53,906 --> 00:27:56,642 The matter went no further. 302 00:28:13,259 --> 00:28:15,895 Instead Holmes turned back to Pitezel 303 00:28:15,928 --> 00:28:18,130 with the exact same plan. 304 00:28:18,164 --> 00:28:22,234 This time it would be Pitezel's death and not Holmes. 305 00:28:22,268 --> 00:28:24,904 Pitezel set himself up as an inventor 306 00:28:24,937 --> 00:28:28,307 under the name of B.F. Perry in Philadelphia. 307 00:28:28,340 --> 00:28:31,744 He would be killed and mutilated in a lab experiment. 308 00:28:32,611 --> 00:28:34,781 Holmes was to find a cadaver 309 00:28:34,814 --> 00:28:37,950 that could be used as the mutilated corpse. 310 00:28:37,984 --> 00:28:41,854 What actually happened is much more on the realms of karma. 311 00:28:43,022 --> 00:28:45,424 Holmes actually did kill Pitezel. 312 00:28:45,457 --> 00:28:47,827 He used chloroform to knock him out 313 00:28:47,860 --> 00:28:49,228 and then set him on fire. 314 00:29:06,412 --> 00:29:09,248 Later when confessing to the crime, 315 00:29:09,281 --> 00:29:11,350 Holmes stated that Pitezel was alive 316 00:29:11,383 --> 00:29:12,952 when he was set on fire. 317 00:29:12,985 --> 00:29:15,487 But the evidence actually showed the man was dead 318 00:29:15,521 --> 00:29:18,490 even before the chloroform was administered. 319 00:29:18,524 --> 00:29:21,027 It had in fact been a very poor attempt 320 00:29:21,060 --> 00:29:22,829 to make it look like suicide. 321 00:29:24,230 --> 00:29:27,499 The plot worked and Holmes collected the insurance money. 322 00:29:27,533 --> 00:29:28,868 It was never enough. 323 00:29:44,951 --> 00:29:47,586 He proceeded to convince Pitezel's widow 324 00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:51,257 to allow three of her children to be in his custody. 325 00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:52,558 He traveled with them across 326 00:29:52,591 --> 00:29:54,793 the northern states and into Canada 327 00:29:54,827 --> 00:29:57,329 while at the same time meeting and traveling 328 00:29:57,363 --> 00:30:00,432 with Mrs. Pitezel along a parallel route. 329 00:30:00,466 --> 00:30:03,402 He had told her that Pitezel was actually alive 330 00:30:03,435 --> 00:30:05,437 and hiding in London. 331 00:30:05,471 --> 00:30:08,340 She had no idea where her children were. 332 00:30:08,374 --> 00:30:12,544 Holmes later confessed to murdering Alice and Nellie. 333 00:30:12,578 --> 00:30:16,515 He forced them into a large trunk and locked them in. 334 00:30:16,548 --> 00:30:20,920 He then drilled a hole through which he forced a hose. 335 00:30:20,953 --> 00:30:23,655 He then gassed the poor little girls. 336 00:30:23,689 --> 00:30:25,791 He proceeded to bury their nude bodies 337 00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:28,760 in the cellar of his rented house in Toronto. 338 00:30:44,944 --> 00:30:47,413 But there was a detective on his trail. 339 00:30:47,446 --> 00:30:49,748 Frank Geyer was from Philadelphia 340 00:30:49,781 --> 00:30:53,319 and he'd been on Holmes' trail for a while. 341 00:30:53,352 --> 00:30:54,686 He dug up the cellar 342 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,356 and found the decomposed bodies of the girls. 343 00:30:58,757 --> 00:31:02,794 Nellie's feet had been removed and Frank wondered why. 344 00:31:02,828 --> 00:31:06,165 He then discovered she'd had clubbed foot. 345 00:31:06,198 --> 00:31:09,001 It turned out that Holmes had removed her feet 346 00:31:09,035 --> 00:31:11,003 to stop the bodies being identified. 347 00:31:26,986 --> 00:31:30,022 Frank followed Holmes to Indianapolis. 348 00:31:30,056 --> 00:31:32,458 Holmes had rented a small cottage 349 00:31:32,491 --> 00:31:34,626 and had recently purchased the same drugs 350 00:31:34,660 --> 00:31:36,162 he had used to murder Pitezel. 351 00:31:37,296 --> 00:31:39,065 He'd also been to a repair shop 352 00:31:39,098 --> 00:31:40,566 to have his knives sharpened. 353 00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:45,071 In fact, the third child had now been murdered, 354 00:31:45,104 --> 00:31:47,473 and his bones and teeth were later found 355 00:31:47,506 --> 00:31:49,108 in the chimney of the cottage. 356 00:32:04,023 --> 00:32:07,059 There was no longer any escape for Holmes, 357 00:32:07,093 --> 00:32:12,098 and on the 17th of November 1894 he was arrested in Boston. 358 00:32:21,107 --> 00:32:24,843 He had been tracked all the way by the infamous Pinkertons. 359 00:32:38,090 --> 00:32:42,228 Initially he was held on an arrest warrant for horse theft 360 00:32:42,261 --> 00:32:44,130 a small matter but one that 361 00:32:44,163 --> 00:32:46,698 allowed the authorities to hold him. 362 00:32:46,732 --> 00:32:50,002 They suspected he was about to flee the country 363 00:32:50,036 --> 00:32:52,738 along with his unsuspecting third wife. 364 00:33:05,151 --> 00:33:07,719 It was soon after this arrest that Alice 365 00:33:07,753 --> 00:33:11,090 and Nellie's bodies had been found in Chicago. 366 00:33:11,123 --> 00:33:13,225 Soon reporters and police alike 367 00:33:13,259 --> 00:33:17,063 were looking more closely at his property in Englewood 368 00:33:17,096 --> 00:33:19,431 which had now become known as The Castle. 369 00:33:31,077 --> 00:33:33,745 There were copious claims made about The Castle 370 00:33:33,779 --> 00:33:35,414 but no evidence. 371 00:33:35,447 --> 00:33:37,816 Claims of torture equipment found in the building 372 00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:40,586 remained just that: Claims. 373 00:33:40,619 --> 00:33:42,454 The evidence does not back this up. 374 00:33:53,699 --> 00:33:57,769 By October 1895, Holmes was standing trial 375 00:33:57,803 --> 00:33:59,705 for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel. 376 00:34:00,872 --> 00:34:03,842 He was found guilty and sentenced to death. 377 00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:06,978 It was obvious that he'd also murdered the children. 378 00:34:19,291 --> 00:34:21,927 He then proceeded to confess to the murder of 379 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:26,165 27 people in Chicago, Indianapolis, and Toronto. 380 00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:29,935 Some of the people that he claimed to have murdered 381 00:34:29,968 --> 00:34:31,703 were in fact still alive. 382 00:34:41,747 --> 00:34:44,250 Bizarrely the Hearst newspaper 383 00:34:44,283 --> 00:34:48,487 paid him $7,500 for his confession. 384 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,956 Even at the point of near death, 385 00:34:50,989 --> 00:34:52,458 Holmes could not help himself 386 00:34:53,559 --> 00:34:55,527 and he spun a story for the people 387 00:34:55,561 --> 00:34:57,863 that were happy to be conned. 388 00:35:05,804 --> 00:35:07,373 The confessions were very quickly 389 00:35:07,406 --> 00:35:10,676 brushed aside as full of fantasy. 390 00:35:10,709 --> 00:35:12,043 Money well spent. 391 00:35:20,852 --> 00:35:24,723 Yet, the legacy of his fiction continued. 392 00:35:24,756 --> 00:35:28,727 Even today books, articles, TV shows, and movies 393 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,497 continue to repeat the so-called facts. 394 00:35:32,364 --> 00:35:33,899 Throughout the whole thing 395 00:35:33,932 --> 00:35:37,102 Holmes continued to spin his tales. 396 00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:39,571 He gave several accounts of his life 397 00:35:39,605 --> 00:35:42,073 all of them contradicted each other. 398 00:35:42,107 --> 00:35:45,311 On the one hand it was completely innocent, 399 00:35:45,344 --> 00:35:47,746 and then in the next breath he was guilty 400 00:35:47,779 --> 00:35:49,748 and working for Satan himself. 401 00:35:56,522 --> 00:36:01,126 His statements cannot and should not be taken into account 402 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:04,029 because even those experts who interviewed him 403 00:36:04,062 --> 00:36:05,264 knew he was lying. 404 00:36:10,536 --> 00:36:13,905 Holmes himself wrote whilst in prison 405 00:36:13,939 --> 00:36:16,742 that his facial features had changed 406 00:36:16,775 --> 00:36:19,110 and that now he resembled the devil. 407 00:36:25,717 --> 00:36:29,054 On May the 17th, 1896 408 00:36:29,087 --> 00:36:33,058 the devil was hanged at Philadelphia County prison. 409 00:36:33,091 --> 00:36:36,862 Until the end he was calm and friendly. 410 00:36:36,895 --> 00:36:40,065 He showed no signs of fear or depression. 411 00:36:40,098 --> 00:36:42,334 He did ask one thing, 412 00:36:42,368 --> 00:36:45,070 something that takes us right back to his early days 413 00:36:45,103 --> 00:36:48,106 when he worked in anatomy and dissection. 414 00:36:48,139 --> 00:36:51,843 He requested that his coffin be buried 10 feet deep 415 00:36:51,877 --> 00:36:54,045 and covered in cement. 416 00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:57,816 He feared the grave robbers and subsequent dissection. 417 00:36:58,684 --> 00:37:00,552 Amazingly there would be some 418 00:37:00,586 --> 00:37:03,855 strange karma in this as we shall see. 419 00:37:11,196 --> 00:37:15,634 At the final hour it turned out that his neck did not snap, 420 00:37:15,667 --> 00:37:19,004 and so he was strangled to death instead. 421 00:37:19,037 --> 00:37:22,908 It took 15 to 20 long minutes for him to die 422 00:37:22,941 --> 00:37:24,242 as he twitched and moaned. 423 00:37:45,331 --> 00:37:47,866 The death surrounding this serial killer 424 00:37:47,899 --> 00:37:50,302 did not seem to end there. 425 00:37:50,336 --> 00:37:53,505 The prisoner Hedgepeth, who had helped Holmes 426 00:37:53,539 --> 00:37:56,442 was shot dead on New Year's Eve 1909. 427 00:37:57,643 --> 00:38:00,379 The caretaker of The Castle a Mr. Quinlan 428 00:38:00,412 --> 00:38:03,449 appeared to have committed suicide with strychnine. 429 00:38:03,482 --> 00:38:05,684 He left a note that simply said, 430 00:38:05,717 --> 00:38:07,919 "I could not sleep." 431 00:38:07,953 --> 00:38:10,456 He had been haunted by hallucinations. 432 00:38:16,728 --> 00:38:19,731 In 1895 The Castle itself 433 00:38:19,765 --> 00:38:22,501 was almost destroyed by a mysterious fire. 434 00:38:23,369 --> 00:38:25,203 Two men had been seen entering 435 00:38:25,236 --> 00:38:27,673 at the back and leaving again. 436 00:38:27,706 --> 00:38:30,376 A half empty gas can was later discovered. 437 00:38:38,116 --> 00:38:42,087 Today the building is completely new and a post office, 438 00:38:45,323 --> 00:38:48,293 and so we arrive at the modern era 439 00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,061 and the fantasies that have emerged 440 00:38:50,095 --> 00:38:52,263 surrounding the con artist and bigamist 441 00:38:52,297 --> 00:38:53,665 who liked to murder people. 442 00:39:00,071 --> 00:39:03,274 Claims that Holmes had in fact never been executed 443 00:39:03,308 --> 00:39:08,113 were so strong that in 2017 his body was exhumed. 444 00:39:08,146 --> 00:39:10,849 The world awaited the results. 445 00:39:10,882 --> 00:39:13,785 The cement he had so strongly insisted on 446 00:39:13,819 --> 00:39:18,123 having cover his coffin actually helped the investigators 447 00:39:18,156 --> 00:39:21,159 because the body was well preserved. 448 00:39:21,192 --> 00:39:24,295 His clothes and mustache were intact. 449 00:39:24,329 --> 00:39:26,698 His teeth records and DNA analysis 450 00:39:26,732 --> 00:39:29,401 researchers proved beyond doubt 451 00:39:29,435 --> 00:39:33,138 that the body they exhumed was that of H.H. Holmes. 452 00:39:39,010 --> 00:39:42,981 But as ever the conspiracy theorists will not rest. 453 00:39:43,014 --> 00:39:44,783 Belief is a powerful thing. 454 00:39:51,690 --> 00:39:54,225 But let us just step backwards a moment 455 00:39:54,259 --> 00:39:57,062 into the infamous murder hotel, The Castle. 456 00:40:03,368 --> 00:40:06,037 We now know that using his abilities 457 00:40:06,071 --> 00:40:07,906 as an expert con artist, 458 00:40:07,939 --> 00:40:10,408 he managed to build the so-called Murder Castle. 459 00:40:11,309 --> 00:40:13,378 It is the method of construction 460 00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:16,047 which begins to open our eyes. 461 00:40:16,081 --> 00:40:17,883 Over the period of building, 462 00:40:17,916 --> 00:40:22,287 Holmes hired and fired a series of construction crews. 463 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,057 He held the architectural plans close to his chest 464 00:40:26,091 --> 00:40:27,793 revealing what he needed to. 465 00:40:29,194 --> 00:40:32,130 Nobody seemed to know the whole plan except him. 466 00:40:37,836 --> 00:40:40,305 In the building there was a basement, 467 00:40:40,338 --> 00:40:42,574 a series of shops at street level, 468 00:40:42,608 --> 00:40:44,843 and two-stories sitting on top of the shops 469 00:40:44,876 --> 00:40:46,678 that comprise the hotel. 470 00:40:48,113 --> 00:40:50,381 His intention was to have the property finished 471 00:40:50,415 --> 00:40:52,450 by the time of the World's Fair 472 00:40:52,484 --> 00:40:54,953 also known as the Columbian Exposition. 473 00:40:56,555 --> 00:41:00,291 When complete the hotel was a amaze of hallways, 474 00:41:00,325 --> 00:41:03,529 soundproof rooms that often locked from the inside, 475 00:41:04,696 --> 00:41:07,398 and gas pipes that were controlled by a panel 476 00:41:07,432 --> 00:41:08,834 in Holmes own closet. 477 00:41:14,706 --> 00:41:17,242 Additionally, closets had peepholes 478 00:41:17,275 --> 00:41:19,745 and secret panels that led to passageways 479 00:41:19,778 --> 00:41:21,179 which Holmes passed through. 480 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,315 Trap doors in floors and ceilings 481 00:41:24,349 --> 00:41:26,184 and horrifying greased chutes 482 00:41:26,217 --> 00:41:28,754 that funneled his hapless victims 483 00:41:28,787 --> 00:41:30,421 to the basement of the building. 484 00:41:35,894 --> 00:41:38,163 When police finally raided the building 485 00:41:38,196 --> 00:41:39,898 after Holmes' arrest, 486 00:41:39,931 --> 00:41:42,200 they found a human sized oven 487 00:41:42,233 --> 00:41:45,203 that could heat up to 3,000 degrees 488 00:41:45,236 --> 00:41:48,740 turning his victims to untraceable ashes. 489 00:41:55,046 --> 00:41:56,915 While many who went missing 490 00:41:56,948 --> 00:41:59,384 after checking into Holmes' hotel 491 00:41:59,417 --> 00:42:01,452 simply disappeared forever, 492 00:42:01,486 --> 00:42:05,323 Holmes was also known to sell skeletons to medical schools. 493 00:42:06,524 --> 00:42:09,094 It's unknown how many of those prepared cadavers 494 00:42:09,127 --> 00:42:12,497 were actually his victims hidden in plain sight. 495 00:42:17,936 --> 00:42:20,038 Because of all this uncertainty 496 00:42:20,071 --> 00:42:23,441 and the devilish fantasy he wove around himself, 497 00:42:23,474 --> 00:42:26,244 we will actually never know the entire truth 498 00:42:26,277 --> 00:42:27,646 about the Murder Castle. 499 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:32,450 We will never know how many victims and who they were. 500 00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:34,786 This was the 19th Century 501 00:42:34,820 --> 00:42:36,655 and records of births and deaths 502 00:42:36,688 --> 00:42:38,790 were not what they are today. 503 00:42:44,596 --> 00:42:48,266 As if the whole story of Holmes was not difficult enough, 504 00:42:48,299 --> 00:42:51,302 it now turns out there is another twist to the tale 505 00:42:51,336 --> 00:42:56,341 and one that has a lot of people convinced H.H. Holmes 506 00:42:57,743 --> 00:43:00,712 was none other than London's Jack The Ripper. 507 00:43:02,380 --> 00:43:05,083 Yes, you heard right. 508 00:43:13,091 --> 00:43:14,525 Let us just take a moment 509 00:43:14,559 --> 00:43:17,663 to delve into the world of Jack The Ripper 510 00:43:17,696 --> 00:43:21,066 to remind ourselves of this particular serial killer. 511 00:43:27,806 --> 00:43:30,676 The year is 1888. 512 00:43:30,709 --> 00:43:34,045 The location Whitechapel, London. 513 00:43:39,384 --> 00:43:42,921 The name came from a letter sent to the media 514 00:43:42,954 --> 00:43:46,124 claiming to have been written by Jack himself. 515 00:43:46,157 --> 00:43:50,195 It is believed to be a hoax and yet the name stuck. 516 00:43:55,566 --> 00:44:00,438 From Jews to Irish immigrants, the East End of Whitechapel 517 00:44:00,471 --> 00:44:04,009 had swelled in numbers during the 19th Century. 518 00:44:04,042 --> 00:44:08,113 It was overcrowded, poor, and in a terrible state. 519 00:44:15,286 --> 00:44:18,890 Violence, theft, murder, alcohol abuse, 520 00:44:18,924 --> 00:44:20,892 and prostitution were rife. 521 00:44:26,064 --> 00:44:30,568 Whitechapel was notorious and grew worse when 522 00:44:30,601 --> 00:44:34,339 in 1888 a series of horrific attacks 523 00:44:34,372 --> 00:44:36,107 occurred on prostitutes. 524 00:44:41,379 --> 00:44:45,250 Nobody knows how many women were killed by Jack himself. 525 00:44:45,283 --> 00:44:46,517 There were so many. 526 00:44:52,490 --> 00:44:57,495 We know of 11 murders between April 1888 and February 1891 527 00:44:58,997 --> 00:45:02,300 that were included in the official police investigation. 528 00:45:03,468 --> 00:45:06,972 Five of these are known as the canonical five 529 00:45:07,005 --> 00:45:08,406 and known to be his work. 530 00:45:14,345 --> 00:45:18,316 There are certain indications that give him away.: 531 00:45:18,349 --> 00:45:20,385 deep slashes to the throat, 532 00:45:20,418 --> 00:45:23,121 abdominal and genital mutilation, 533 00:45:23,154 --> 00:45:27,826 removal of internal organs, and facial mutilations. 534 00:45:45,476 --> 00:45:49,314 We need not run through all the victims and circumstances. 535 00:45:49,347 --> 00:45:53,418 Instead we'll take a look at the canonical five. 536 00:45:53,451 --> 00:45:57,288 Their names were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, 537 00:45:57,322 --> 00:46:01,893 Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. 538 00:46:11,903 --> 00:46:14,072 Nichols' throat had been cut. 539 00:46:14,105 --> 00:46:15,773 Her lower abdomen ripped open. 540 00:46:20,578 --> 00:46:21,980 Chapman's throat cut. 541 00:46:22,013 --> 00:46:25,350 Her abdomen slashed open and uterus removed. 542 00:46:31,622 --> 00:46:34,092 Stride and Eddowes were similar. 543 00:46:34,125 --> 00:46:35,593 A clear cut to the throat. 544 00:46:36,962 --> 00:46:40,098 Stride's body had no mutilations to the abdomen 545 00:46:40,131 --> 00:46:43,634 leading some to claim the Ripper had been interrupted. 546 00:46:49,540 --> 00:46:52,377 Witnesses all gave conflicting accounts 547 00:46:52,410 --> 00:46:54,779 of a man they thought they had seen. 548 00:46:54,812 --> 00:46:59,817 Smart, shabby, fair, dark nobody knew. 549 00:47:01,019 --> 00:47:02,587 In fact one theory claims that there 550 00:47:02,620 --> 00:47:04,822 never was a single Jack The Ripper. 551 00:47:11,930 --> 00:47:14,032 Eddowes body was the same, 552 00:47:14,065 --> 00:47:16,301 throat cut, abdomen ripped open. 553 00:47:16,334 --> 00:47:19,770 Her left kidney and most of her uterus removed. 554 00:47:19,804 --> 00:47:24,109 Graffiti found nearby seemed to implicate the Jews. 555 00:47:24,142 --> 00:47:26,244 Fearing anti-Semitic riots, 556 00:47:26,277 --> 00:47:27,946 the police had it washed away. 557 00:47:34,886 --> 00:47:36,988 Kelly's body was found in bed. 558 00:47:37,022 --> 00:47:39,457 The throat cut down the spine 559 00:47:39,490 --> 00:47:42,293 and the abdomen emptied and the heart missing. 560 00:47:50,568 --> 00:47:53,271 All these murders happened at night. 561 00:47:53,304 --> 00:47:56,507 The mutilations seem to have been getting worse. 562 00:48:05,483 --> 00:48:07,685 Although Kelly is considered by many 563 00:48:07,718 --> 00:48:10,588 to have been Jack's final victim, 564 00:48:10,621 --> 00:48:13,959 there are others who believe he continued. 565 00:48:13,992 --> 00:48:17,228 These later murders were all record. 566 00:48:17,262 --> 00:48:20,198 These include decapitations, 567 00:48:20,231 --> 00:48:23,969 torsos ripped open and more gruesome atrocities. 568 00:48:32,077 --> 00:48:34,545 The Pinchin Street torso for instance 569 00:48:34,579 --> 00:48:39,217 was headless and legless and found beneath a railway arch. 570 00:48:39,250 --> 00:48:40,685 She was never identified. 571 00:48:47,725 --> 00:48:50,061 Vigilantes started to roam the streets 572 00:48:50,095 --> 00:48:53,931 because quite simply the police were dumbfounded. 573 00:48:53,965 --> 00:48:56,567 A great many were suspected. 574 00:48:56,601 --> 00:48:59,104 Butchers, surgeons, doctors, 575 00:48:59,137 --> 00:49:01,939 and even occult ritual practices were blamed. 576 00:49:08,179 --> 00:49:12,317 A report from Inspector Swanson to the home office 577 00:49:12,350 --> 00:49:16,854 confirms that 76 butchers and slaughters were visited 578 00:49:16,887 --> 00:49:20,225 and that the inquiry encompassed all their employees 579 00:49:20,258 --> 00:49:21,926 for the previous six months. 580 00:49:30,568 --> 00:49:32,603 Even the queen herself 581 00:49:32,637 --> 00:49:34,739 thought the murders pointed to a butcher. 582 00:49:39,244 --> 00:49:41,779 Jack The Ripper is in fact the earliest 583 00:49:41,812 --> 00:49:44,449 police profiling on record. 584 00:49:44,482 --> 00:49:47,952 Police surgeon Thomas Bond investigated the process 585 00:49:47,985 --> 00:49:50,388 and surgical skill of the Ripper. 586 00:49:50,421 --> 00:49:54,025 He wrote, "All five murders no doubt 587 00:49:54,059 --> 00:49:56,627 "were committed by the same hand. 588 00:49:56,661 --> 00:49:58,929 "In the first four the throats appear 589 00:49:58,963 --> 00:50:02,067 "to have been cut from left to right. 590 00:50:02,100 --> 00:50:05,703 "In the last case, owing to the extensive mutilation 591 00:50:05,736 --> 00:50:08,339 "it is impossible to say in what direction 592 00:50:08,373 --> 00:50:11,776 "the fatal cut was made but arterial blood 593 00:50:11,809 --> 00:50:14,845 "was found on the wall in splashes close to where 594 00:50:14,879 --> 00:50:17,315 "the woman's head must have been lying. 595 00:50:18,483 --> 00:50:21,186 "All the circumstances surrounding the murders 596 00:50:21,219 --> 00:50:24,989 "lead me to form the opinion that the woman 597 00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:27,625 "must have been lying down when murdered, 598 00:50:27,658 --> 00:50:30,695 "and in every case the throat was first cut." 599 00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:34,565 Bond refused to accept that the Ripper 600 00:50:34,599 --> 00:50:37,368 had descent surgical knowledge. 601 00:50:42,507 --> 00:50:45,042 Holmes would have had from his training. 602 00:50:46,211 --> 00:50:48,813 He believed that Jack was a solitary man 603 00:50:48,846 --> 00:50:52,683 who had periodical attacks of homicidal and erotic mania. 604 00:50:54,085 --> 00:50:57,388 His attacks may have derived from a revengeful 605 00:50:57,422 --> 00:51:00,191 or brooding condition of the mind 606 00:51:00,225 --> 00:51:04,061 or that religious mania may have been the original disease, 607 00:51:04,095 --> 00:51:07,398 which I don't not think either hypothesis is likely. 608 00:51:14,539 --> 00:51:16,741 Soon psychologies believe that the 609 00:51:16,774 --> 00:51:20,245 penetration of the victims with the knife 610 00:51:20,278 --> 00:51:24,014 leaving them on display in sexually degrading positions 611 00:51:24,048 --> 00:51:27,352 with the wounds exposed indicated that Jack 612 00:51:27,385 --> 00:51:30,921 derived sexual pleasure from the attacks. 613 00:51:30,955 --> 00:51:34,024 It is true that the majority of the poor victims 614 00:51:34,058 --> 00:51:38,763 that succumbed to the brutality of H.H. Holmes were women 615 00:51:38,796 --> 00:51:41,432 just as in the case of Jack. 616 00:51:45,002 --> 00:51:48,005 Nobody knows who Jack The Ripper was, 617 00:51:48,038 --> 00:51:51,409 and there is an almost annual claim offered in the media. 618 00:51:52,610 --> 00:51:55,946 There are well over 100 suspects now, 619 00:51:55,980 --> 00:51:58,683 and we are still no closer to the truth. 620 00:52:04,455 --> 00:52:05,923 But there is another theory. 621 00:52:06,991 --> 00:52:09,594 Holmes' great, great grandson 622 00:52:09,627 --> 00:52:13,298 has recently so come forth with so-called evidence: 623 00:52:13,331 --> 00:52:15,933 two diaries he claims were inherited 624 00:52:15,966 --> 00:52:18,403 from his great, great grandfather. 625 00:52:18,436 --> 00:52:23,441 Experts, who we do not know, analyzed the handwriting 626 00:52:24,609 --> 00:52:25,919 and concluded that they were indeed 627 00:52:25,943 --> 00:52:28,846 written by the devil incarnate himself. 628 00:52:33,351 --> 00:52:36,153 It details several of his murders 629 00:52:36,187 --> 00:52:40,991 and a tale about how he was raped as a child by a priest. 630 00:52:41,025 --> 00:52:45,062 It also claims that he was never in fact hanged. 631 00:52:45,095 --> 00:52:47,998 That he staged his own execution. 632 00:52:48,032 --> 00:52:52,503 Of course we now know that he was hung and buried, 633 00:52:52,537 --> 00:52:56,341 and so this piece of evidence is in fact not true. 634 00:53:01,646 --> 00:53:05,216 We also know that Holmes was the world's biggest liar. 635 00:53:06,384 --> 00:53:07,985 The diary states that Holmes 636 00:53:08,018 --> 00:53:10,087 knew the identity of Jack The Ripper. 637 00:53:11,222 --> 00:53:13,057 What is the problem here is simple. 638 00:53:14,259 --> 00:53:16,627 That this statement is being over-egged 639 00:53:16,661 --> 00:53:19,397 to reveal that Holmes was Jack the Ripper 640 00:53:19,430 --> 00:53:21,566 and that he didn't die. 641 00:53:21,599 --> 00:53:25,002 We are being asked to believe the words of a dead con man. 642 00:53:30,841 --> 00:53:34,044 We are also, with next to no evidence 643 00:53:34,078 --> 00:53:36,180 being asked to believe that Holmes 644 00:53:36,213 --> 00:53:39,384 was in London during the Whitechapel murders. 645 00:53:39,417 --> 00:53:42,987 The diary describes them as training sessions. 646 00:53:43,020 --> 00:53:45,856 But it could also be the ramblings of an egotist. 647 00:53:47,325 --> 00:53:50,628 Yet, Holmes can be shown to have committed fraud in the 648 00:53:50,661 --> 00:53:54,899 United States at the time of most of the Ripper murders. 649 00:54:03,674 --> 00:54:07,244 In fact, Holmes apparently had a trainee 650 00:54:07,278 --> 00:54:10,515 who was instructed to carry out murders on prostitutes 651 00:54:10,548 --> 00:54:12,082 and to mutilate their bodies. 652 00:54:12,950 --> 00:54:15,219 Why would Holmes do this? 653 00:54:15,252 --> 00:54:19,457 Apparently to distract the world from his own barbarism. 654 00:54:19,490 --> 00:54:22,026 Is this stretching the imagination too far? 655 00:54:27,031 --> 00:54:30,368 While it is a wonderful story that catches headlines, 656 00:54:30,401 --> 00:54:33,270 it is in fact as ridiculous as Robin Hood 657 00:54:33,304 --> 00:54:36,140 having popped over the pond to help the poor English 658 00:54:36,173 --> 00:54:39,577 before returning to America to become Abraham Lincoln. 659 00:54:44,148 --> 00:54:47,251 The problem is that Holmes was a massive liar, 660 00:54:47,284 --> 00:54:50,355 and nothing in his diaries can be trusted. 661 00:54:50,388 --> 00:54:53,658 So no matter how logical some of it may sound, 662 00:54:53,691 --> 00:54:56,927 it is being manipulated to sell books. 663 00:54:56,961 --> 00:55:00,765 Indeed the author of this new theory himself 664 00:55:00,798 --> 00:55:05,102 describes his own visions of the ghost of Holmes. 665 00:55:05,135 --> 00:55:07,772 Alarm bells should ring. 666 00:55:14,078 --> 00:55:16,647 True hardened Ripperologists 667 00:55:16,681 --> 00:55:20,017 could literally rip the story apart 668 00:55:20,050 --> 00:55:23,220 from dates, methods, and motives 669 00:55:23,253 --> 00:55:26,891 to the sheer fantasist Holmes himself 670 00:55:26,924 --> 00:55:29,694 and it seems subsequent believers. 671 00:55:34,732 --> 00:55:37,468 It was finally killed with the discovery 672 00:55:37,502 --> 00:55:40,471 that Holmes was in fact executed and buried. 673 00:55:45,510 --> 00:55:48,245 The Ripper murders were not as is commonly 674 00:55:48,278 --> 00:55:50,047 and falsely believed 675 00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,484 precise murders carried out by a surgeon. 676 00:55:53,518 --> 00:55:56,721 They were frenzied and no better than a butcher. 677 00:56:04,161 --> 00:56:06,631 All the evidence proves this. 678 00:56:06,664 --> 00:56:09,434 The Ripper went out for his kill. 679 00:56:09,467 --> 00:56:11,235 He stalked the streets. 680 00:56:18,175 --> 00:56:21,111 Holmes lured his victims. 681 00:56:21,145 --> 00:56:22,947 He didn't stalk. 682 00:56:22,980 --> 00:56:25,215 He was precise with his murders. 683 00:56:25,249 --> 00:56:26,751 He took his time over them. 684 00:56:28,185 --> 00:56:31,221 Paper evidence proves that Holmes is carrying out fraud 685 00:56:31,255 --> 00:56:34,291 and building his castle in the United States 686 00:56:34,324 --> 00:56:36,126 at the time of the Ripper murders. 687 00:56:42,467 --> 00:56:44,702 There are a lot of claims being made 688 00:56:44,735 --> 00:56:49,139 that there was no evidence of Holmes in Chicago in 1888. 689 00:56:49,173 --> 00:56:50,841 But they are simply not true. 690 00:56:52,042 --> 00:56:55,279 It is also claimed that the Ripper's handwriting 691 00:56:55,312 --> 00:56:59,216 was proven to be the same as the handwriting of Holmes. 692 00:56:59,249 --> 00:57:03,954 Again not true because there are no proven records 693 00:57:03,988 --> 00:57:06,356 of the handwriting of Jack The Ripper. 694 00:57:11,261 --> 00:57:14,364 There are dozens of different examples 695 00:57:14,398 --> 00:57:16,534 and none of them are proven. 696 00:57:16,567 --> 00:57:20,004 Indeed the whole Holmes' story 697 00:57:20,037 --> 00:57:24,174 has and is becoming a new fantasy in the media. 698 00:57:29,647 --> 00:57:32,249 It seems to have been this way 699 00:57:32,282 --> 00:57:35,385 since the first news stories about the Murder Castle. 700 00:57:40,324 --> 00:57:42,993 There have been dozens of books on the subject, 701 00:57:43,027 --> 00:57:45,462 and they all seem to contradict each other. 702 00:57:46,564 --> 00:57:48,733 There have been copious documentaries, 703 00:57:48,766 --> 00:57:53,037 TV plays, theater productions, and movies. 704 00:57:53,070 --> 00:57:55,172 There has even been an opera. 705 00:58:00,277 --> 00:58:04,414 We began this investigation in an attempt to be forensic 706 00:58:04,448 --> 00:58:06,684 to analyze the mind of the man 707 00:58:06,717 --> 00:58:09,186 through his actions and deeds. 708 00:58:09,219 --> 00:58:11,421 We have discovered that his life 709 00:58:11,455 --> 00:58:14,224 was one very big lie from beginning to end, 710 00:58:21,732 --> 00:58:25,469 and the lies continue even after his death. 711 00:58:30,708 --> 00:58:32,677 Was he really bullied in school 712 00:58:32,710 --> 00:58:35,580 and forced to stand before a skeleton? 713 00:58:35,613 --> 00:58:38,282 This it is claimed was the reason 714 00:58:38,315 --> 00:58:40,818 for his fascination with cadavers. 715 00:58:40,851 --> 00:58:44,555 Problem is we have only his word on this tall tale. 716 00:58:45,990 --> 00:58:49,259 The facts we have reveal he was born into an ordinary 717 00:58:49,293 --> 00:58:52,763 hard working Methodist family of farmers nothing more. 718 00:59:00,370 --> 00:59:03,741 We do know that his fascination with cadavers 719 00:59:03,774 --> 00:59:07,978 seems to have begun just prior to university 720 00:59:08,012 --> 00:59:10,414 and it was there that his ability to use 721 00:59:10,447 --> 00:59:13,618 the corpses as methods of making money began. 722 00:59:20,958 --> 00:59:24,194 Somewhere his moral compass went wrong 723 00:59:24,228 --> 00:59:26,897 and started pointing in every direction. 724 00:59:33,938 --> 00:59:36,473 It is difficult to know where 725 00:59:36,506 --> 00:59:40,544 but sometimes just the simple necessity to survive 726 00:59:40,577 --> 00:59:42,913 can cause humans to do terrible things. 727 00:59:50,220 --> 00:59:55,225 When those crimes have proven to work and nobody's any wiser 728 00:59:56,627 --> 00:59:59,730 then the temptation to proceed to up the game increases. 729 01:00:04,334 --> 01:00:08,205 Could it simply be that Holmes was a opportunist 730 01:00:08,238 --> 01:00:10,407 who kept taking the risks 731 01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,077 until the final one was one too many? 732 01:00:18,182 --> 01:00:20,317 It is a pattern in crime. 733 01:00:20,350 --> 01:00:23,253 It is also a pattern with psychotics 734 01:00:23,287 --> 01:00:25,690 that they secretly wish to be caught, 735 01:00:25,723 --> 01:00:28,158 to be known, to be famous. 736 01:00:33,831 --> 01:00:36,166 He definitely had little empathy 737 01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:38,468 for his fellow human beings. 738 01:00:38,502 --> 01:00:41,806 He mimicked it because he was an excellent con man. 739 01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,910 Psychotic people are very often believed 740 01:00:45,943 --> 01:00:49,246 to be friendly, intelligent, and methodical. 741 01:00:53,383 --> 01:00:55,652 Holmes has all those traits. 742 01:00:57,087 --> 01:01:00,257 His methods of making money was so well planned 743 01:01:00,290 --> 01:01:03,894 that he constructed a building to extract money and bodies. 744 01:01:03,928 --> 01:01:06,797 He had no compassion for the people. 745 01:01:06,831 --> 01:01:09,166 It was a challenge to his psychotic mind. 746 01:01:14,038 --> 01:01:18,608 His building had 51 doorways that opened unto brick walls, 747 01:01:18,642 --> 01:01:22,847 100 rooms without windows, stairs that led to nowhere, 748 01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:26,316 chutes for bodies, gas holes, secret passageways 749 01:01:26,350 --> 01:01:28,318 and a huge incinerator. 750 01:01:28,352 --> 01:01:31,655 It was planned and executed very well. 751 01:01:31,688 --> 01:01:36,593 It was a castle of fantasy for a psychotic fantasist. 752 01:01:44,434 --> 01:01:46,470 It was a mirror of his own mind. 753 01:01:53,643 --> 01:01:57,714 The true psychological analysis of H.H. Holmes 754 01:01:57,748 --> 01:02:00,150 does not come from his lies 755 01:02:00,184 --> 01:02:03,353 but from the bricks and mortar of the Murder Castle. 756 01:02:03,387 --> 01:02:05,089 It reflects him. 757 01:02:11,428 --> 01:02:16,433 During his confession in Chicago in 1896 he said, 758 01:02:17,367 --> 01:02:19,970 "I was born with the devil in me. 759 01:02:20,004 --> 01:02:23,540 "I could not help the fact that I was a murderer 760 01:02:23,573 --> 01:02:28,012 "no more than a poet can help the inspiration to sing. 761 01:02:28,045 --> 01:02:30,414 "I was born with the evil one 762 01:02:30,447 --> 01:02:33,750 "standing as my sponsor beside the bed 763 01:02:33,784 --> 01:02:36,520 "where I was ushered into the world 764 01:02:36,553 --> 01:02:39,056 "and he has been with me since." 765 01:02:47,564 --> 01:02:50,467 We cannot believe his confessions. 766 01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:53,703 We cannot believe his so-called diaries 767 01:02:53,737 --> 01:02:55,806 if indeed they are real. 768 01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:58,943 We can only believe the evidence. 769 01:02:58,976 --> 01:03:01,812 Holmes was a bigamist, fact. 770 01:03:01,846 --> 01:03:04,949 He was a superb con man, fact. 771 01:03:04,982 --> 01:03:08,018 He was a serial killer, fact. 772 01:03:08,052 --> 01:03:11,588 He was Jack The Ripper, extremely doubtful. 773 01:03:20,865 --> 01:03:24,001 In the 21st Century nothing has changed 774 01:03:24,034 --> 01:03:28,405 from the 19th Century when his evil deeds emerged. 775 01:03:28,438 --> 01:03:30,841 Within his own lifetime people were 776 01:03:30,875 --> 01:03:34,144 making up tales about him and his life. 777 01:03:34,178 --> 01:03:38,582 In subsequent generations those lies have been spread 778 01:03:38,615 --> 01:03:42,086 altered, improved upon, and regurgitated. 779 01:03:47,324 --> 01:03:50,027 Just because his words are spoken 780 01:03:50,060 --> 01:03:52,462 it does not make them truth. 781 01:03:52,496 --> 01:03:54,564 Just because they are repeated 782 01:03:54,598 --> 01:03:57,034 it does not make them gospel. 783 01:03:57,067 --> 01:04:00,871 Just because they are turned into documentaries and movies 784 01:04:00,905 --> 01:04:03,140 it does not make them gospel truth. 785 01:04:08,946 --> 01:04:11,015 The facts are the facts. 786 01:04:11,048 --> 01:04:13,450 He was an egotistical liar 787 01:04:13,483 --> 01:04:16,820 who believed he was superior to the rest of mankind 788 01:04:23,660 --> 01:04:26,530 just as is the case with the vast majority 789 01:04:26,563 --> 01:04:29,799 of serial killers modern and ancient. 790 01:04:35,973 --> 01:04:38,475 We place them on the silver screen 791 01:04:38,508 --> 01:04:42,746 and make icons out of them and their Chinese whispers. 792 01:04:42,779 --> 01:04:46,083 He was evil but he was not Satan. 793 01:04:46,116 --> 01:04:48,285 He was mentally deranged. 794 01:04:48,318 --> 01:04:50,754 But he was not Jack The Ripper. 795 01:04:50,787 --> 01:04:53,991 That story is yet to be revealed, 796 01:04:54,024 --> 01:04:56,393 and it will be an eye opener. 63550

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