Holmes's s life story. Holmes was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire 1861 during the civil war. When he grew up to be a little kid, he was bullied and scared to death as a kid. Over the years he's been bullied because he is scared of the local doctor and one day some bullies brought him to the doctors place and made Holmes to touch the skeleton. The bullies were surprise because Holmes was not scared but fascinated by death. On July 4th 1878 he went to go married a woman name Clara Lovering. Holmes later went to University of Michigan Medical school and graduated in 1884. While he was in the school he would steal their bodies and make their bodies look like if they died in a incident then he would claim their insurance for the money. Holmes moved to Chicago to pursue as a pharmaceutical. . In august 1886, Holmes came across Dr. Elizabeth S. Holton's drugstore at the corner of S. Wallace and W. 63rd Street, in the Englewood neighborhood. While being a employee at the drugstore he would marry another woman name Julia Smythe (former employee) and she will be one of Holmes's victims later on. Holmes buys the drugstore after the doctor (owner of the store) got pregnant for $100 and he would buy a building across the street and make that a hotel. In 1983 Worlds Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago and that's when people all around the country and around the world would come to this event. Holmes knew this will be a good time to start to kill people. During the event people would stay in his hotel and most of the people would never come out the hotel. It says that there is some rooms where the victim would go in and be locked and gas would come from the walls and vents and make the person suffocate or make to sleep (depends on the gas). The ones who were asleep were taken and tortured.Later on when every victim dies there will be a secret trap door where the victim's body will go to the basement. After the victim was in the basement Holmes would dissect the bodies and the only thing will be left is their skeleton. in the basement their will be knives, acid bath, two large furnaces. Soon later he would sell the skeletons to medical schools and to his friends that were doctors or teachers at these schools. His friends and other people wouldn't ask any questions where he got the skeletons. Holmes would do this during the event and it depended on people who would stay at his hotel so that he would kill them and sell their skeleton. After the event was over, things slowed down and Holmes moved to Forth Worth, Texas. he already had a building there due to inheritance. He got inheritance due to two women which he was post to marry one of them and but he kills both later on. he was going to make another murder castle in Texas but he changed his mind. Soon later he would move around the States and Canada. In 1984 Holmes was in St. Louis and he stooled a horse and was caught and sent to jail. When he is in jail he meets a man name Marion Hedgepeth and Holmes told him a plan about getting money. When they both got out they made Benjamin fake his death but Holmes kills him because he wanted to. When the insurance company saw this he didn't paid them. Since Marion helped he would get paid for his help. During this time Holmes would go see Mrs. Pitezal and tell her Mr Pitezal is in London to stay under radar from police but this was a lie because he is already dead. Holmes soon gets custody of three out five kids. He gets Howard, Nellie, and Alice. The four would travel around the States and Holmes would soon later the three kids. That same year (1894) the police was tipped off by one Holmes's partner (Marion). On November 17th 1894 Holmes was arrested in Boston and he was sent to jail that same day. The other person that tipped Holmes was his janitor who worked at the castle. He tipped the police when he heard Holmes was arrested and the police checked the upstairs of the hotel it was a bad scene to look at. After they saw that they went to go see the basement and was the same thing where they saw bodies and tools to torture and kill. Some one asked Holmes to confess and Holmes said no and they finally paid him to finally confess. After Holmes was paid and he told the whole story but before he told the story he told everybody who was there and said this "My Kills Gave Me Great Pleasure and my kill list is very long". This shocked everybody and after he told One of the Pitezal kids are in the chimney in my home. After he confessed about everything the police went to his home and saw teeth and bones in the chimney and they try to find the other victims he said he killed. On may 7th 1986 he was sentenced to death. He was hanged but when he was hanged he didn't die quick. He was hanged their for 15 minutes and he died by suffocating and at the 20 minutes mark he was cut and pronounced dead. After his death people were happy because the serial killer is finally caught and he is dead.