A Handsome Devil
Listen up, kids: It's time for a history lesson... First, look at this handsome devil ... Because he's the "Devil in the White City"... Yeah. Okay. His name is H erman Webster Mudgett But in 1886 he changed his name to Henry Howard Holmes and is known as H. H. HOLMES Born in 1861 in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, t his guy wasn't that crazy as a kid. That is until two older kids had locked him in a doctor's office with a real skeleton. After hours of this, Mudgett was traumatized and this likely assisted his then fascination with death and more morbid things. Young Mudgett enjoyed reading Edgar Allan Poe. As if that's a surprise. They could have compared moustaches. Herman went to school like a good little boy and actually became a teacher and then a principal! This is where things get weird... ...Holmes found himself in a life insurance fraud. It was a pretty ...