This well-dressed man was at one point the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. Serial killer or scientist?

Born on May 16, 1861, in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Herman Webster Mudgett, best known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, has confessed to 27 murders. However, after his trial, there was intense speculation that the number was closer to 200.

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