H.H Holmes became out to be a successfully serial killer and very smart of how no to get caught by the police or people. But eventually every criminal gets caught some how. But Holmes gets caught by insurance fraud and one of his partners (Marion Hedgepeth). He was sent to jail after he was caught in Boston in November 17, 1894 by being tipped off by his partner. Later on he was arrested, the janitor found out that Holmes got arrested he told the police about why he didn't get to clean the up stairs. After the police was informed about this they looked upstairs and saw horrific things that no one should have saw. After that they went to the basement where the they saw skeletons and tools. Holmes was paid by somebody to confess about everything. He told the whole story. Before he started his story he said this "My Kills Gave Me Great Pleasure and my kill list is very long". They found other body parts in his home where they found teeth in the chimney. 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.