![]() However, the game deliberately goes with the highly sensationalized legend of Holmes, including the claim that he killed 200 people (which was the single most ludicrous estimate thrown at the time).While Holmes is suspected of killing 10 people (and would eventually only be convicted for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel), all of those murders had specific motives in mind (financial, covering up botched abortions, insurance fraud, etc.).The secret passages inside the "Murder Castle" were more likely not used as traps but rather as places to hide building materials and other items Holmes stole or bought on credit with no intention of paying them back.According to modern research, the vast majority of Holmes' crimes were almost certainly fabrications by unscrupulous media, with crooked cops seeking to blame a lot of unexplained disappearances on Holmes, and Holmes himself who reveled in the attention.Du'Met's attempt to create a costume based off Holmes is shown on a clipboard.Du'Met's purchase of a mask in Holmes' likeness is detailed in the Custom Mask Email.Du'Met purchased Holmes' hat, as revealed in the Auction Receipt.Du'Met kept a list of aliases based mainly around Holmes and other figures related to him.Joseph Morello wrote a book about Holmes.Holmes is mentioned by Manny Sherman in Sherman Tape 1, Sherman Tape 2, and Sherman Tape 3.Du'Met tried to emulate Holmes physically as well, collecting his memorabilia and wearing a mask that resembled Holmes' face. He did not only made a recreation of Holmes' hotel, but also based his numerous aliases around Holmes and his victims. Du'Met took this a step further by focusing his entire persona around Holmes. Sherman regarded Holmes as "numero uno", who invented the trade of murder and hoped to recreate his style. Holmes served as an inspiration for both Granthem Du'Met and Manny Sherman to become serial killers. Relationships Jeff and Marie Du'Met and Sherman Jeff confronts Holmes Jeff completes the QTE. Jeff does not confront Holmes OR Jeff confronts Holmes but fails the QTE. Holmes became known as "America's First Serial Killer" as well as one of the most successful. To his request, his body was encased in concrete to make sure his spirit didn't escape and murder more people. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing." At the trial, Holmes said to the judge, " I was born with the Devil in Me. Due to this, the hotel is known as the "Murder Castle" to these days. On November 17, 1894, Holmes was arrested.Īt the trial in 1896, Holmes confessed to 27 murders, although there was speculation about it being much higher. ![]() While appearing as elegant and remarkable, Holmes used the hotel to lure victims in and kill them. Later on, he built a hotel known as the "World's Fair Hotel" in the suburbs of Englewood in Chicago after the World's Fair Columbian Exposition that was happening at the time. In 1886, he moved to Chicago and changed his name to Henry Howard Holmes, also simplified as H.H. In 1882, he entered the University of Michigan to study anatomy. Holmes was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire on with his birth name Herman Mudgett.
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