The Confession of H.H. Holmes

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture, Performing Arts

4.4 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A Litany of Horror

Episode 12 is a reading of the chilling confession of Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H. Holmes, one of the most remarkable serial killers in American History. The whole nation was shocked and outraged in the waning years of the nineteenth century by the gruesome deeds of one Herman Mudgett, the arch fiend who took on the pseudonym H.H. Holmes as he prepared his famous "Castle of Death" in downtown Chicago. He was arrested for an insurance fraud in November 1894, but his string of murders, perhaps 200 in all, were soon revealed. He was convicted of one capital crime in Philadelphia, and while he awaited execution, he penned a confession detailing 27 murders that was published in newspapers across the country. He would recant this confession before he hanged, but really, you can't make this stuff up.

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0:57.0	historic newspapers from the golden age of yellow journalism.
1:02.0	The entire nation was shocked and outraged in the waning years of the 19th century by the gruesome
1:08.0	deeds of one Herman Mudgeett, the archfiend who took on the pseudonym H.H. Holmes
1:13.6	as he prepared his famous castle of death in downtown Chicago.
1:18.6	He was arrested for an insurance fraud in November 1894,
1:22.6	but his string of murders, perhaps 200 in all, were soon revealed.
1:33.2	He was convicted of one capital crime in Philadelphia, and while he awaited execution,
1:39.3	he penned a confession detailing 27 murders that was published in newspapers across the country.
1:44.9	He would recant this confession before he hanged, but really, you can't make this stuff up.
1:51.2	I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones, and I call this episode of serial killer clips The Confession of H. H. H. Holmes, a litany of horror.
2:06.6	Philadelphia County Prison, April 8 8, 1896. The first taking of human life was a torturing thought.
2:10.6	This, it will be understood, was before my constant wrongdoing.
2:15.6	I had become wholly deaf to the promptings of conscience.
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