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I contemplate it’s gracious to say that we can separate serial killers into two categories–let’s call them “A” and “B”–when discussing their name recognition. Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Lee Lucas, Jack the Ripper, and Charles Starkweather would definitely tumble in the ragged. Thanks to the media, the public is all too aware of these vicious killers. Numerous books, articles, documentaries, and movies characterize their exploits in nauseating detail. The second tier murderers, no less appalling in their capacity to remove human lives, would diagram mostly blanks if you dropped their names into polite conversation. Albert Fish, Beck and Fernandez, William Bonin, and dozens of others plunge into this category. One name that, until recently, also garnered blank stares was Dr. Herman W. Mudgett aka Henry Holmes aka H. H. Holmes. Thanks to a best-selling book entitled “The Devil in the White City,” Holmes is finally receiving his due. I haven’t read Erik Larson’s treatment, but I have read dozens of serial killer compilations over the years. Holmes made the grade in all of them. I decided to reacquaint myself with this monster recently by watching John Borowski’s documentary “H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer.”
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Borowski’s production, which runs a scant sixty-four minutes, gives the viewer everything they ever wanted to know about this famed butcher. Holmes grew up in Modern Hampshire in the 1860s and 1870s, a knowing but apprehensive child who eventually attended medical school. After running an insurance scam arresting stolen cadavers from school, Holmes disappeared for a number of years before popping up again in Chicago in 1885. Then the nightmares began in earnest. He bounced around the city running numerous scams and running up debts before beginning construction on an ample mansion across the street from a drugstore he owned. An exclusive structure indeed, this castle, considering that it boasted halt to sixty rooms and a most fresh floor notion. Moreover, Holmes continually hired and then fired workers laboring on the building. One reason was to accept out of paying for services rendered. Another reason, and a far more ominous one considering what would soon remove situation in the mansion, was Holmes’s eager desire that no one but himself would now the ins and outs of the building’s earn. You scrutinize, Dr. Holmes had a specific purpose in mind for his novel domicile, a purpose that fervent trapdoors, slides, and a cancel pit in the basement.
Over the next four years, Holmes lured dozens upon dozens of women to the castle. Some came to rent rooms from the genuine doctor, others seeking employment. No one really knows how many women H. H. Holmes killed. It is generally acknowledged what he did with the bodies, however. After dispatching a victim, the murderer would send their body down to the basement where pits tubby of acid and quicklime ensured that all traces of the corpse would vanish–after he sold the victims’ skeletons to medical schools across the country, that is. Holmes’s murderous career started to unravel after police arrested him for running a con in St. Louis. While in jail there he swindled celebrated allege robber Marion Hedgepeth, a swindle that came wait on to bite him later on when Holmes reneged on a promise to pay the criminal money for securing accurate assistance. Hedgepeth eventually rolled over on the doctor, reporting to the authorities an insurance scam Holmes planned on running once out of jail. The Pinkerton Detective Agency got eager in the case, and the rest, as they say, is history. The horrors of the Chicago mansion soon came to light, and H. H. Holmes eventually went to the gallows for his repulsive crimes.
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Whew! Boy, am I leaving a bunch of stuff out! I could go on and on about H.H. Holmes, about his numerous affairs with women, his cons, and his treatment of the Pietzel family. The fact that Borowski managed to stuff this considerable information about Holmes’s activities into sixty minutes is an impressive feat indeed. The documentary looks like something you might ogle on A&E or the History Channel. It shows us the pictures of places and people central to the epic of Holmes, contains interviews with serial killer experts like Harold Schechter, boasts several dusky and white reenactments of distinguished events, and even has Tony Jay doing the narration. If you don’t know this guy’s name, don’t worry; you’ll certainly behold his squawk. He’s one of Hollywood’s premier voiceover talents, having worked on dozens upon dozens of shows, movies, and videogames. Definitely a large choice to teach the creepy yarn of one of America’s worst serial killers! My only pickle with the describe is the title. Sorry, but H.H. Holmes wasn’t America’s first serial killer. Jesse Pomeroy killed numerous victims several years before Holmes was born. Moreover, serial killers existed in Europe long before America became a country. Gilles de Rais and Elizabeth Bathory are impartial two examples.
Extras on the DVD consist of a commentary track with John Borowski, an informative making of featurette, several trailers, and a photo gallery showing how the places interested in Holmes’s crimes have changed in the last hundred plus years. Salubrious stuff. So why isn’t Holmes as well known as Bundy, Starkweather, Gacy, and the rest? The documentary answers that query indirectly by having to rely on recreations of the crimes. Holmes operated in a time before television and film could select the crime scene and the trial. Unusual Americans need to witness the panic, scrutinize the killer marching by on their television sets, for it to register. Nonetheless, I believe Borowski’s documentary does mighty to elevate Holmes to the ranks of the “A” grade serial killers.
With overtones of Murnau’s Nosferatu, this documentary/film about the life and crimes of HH Holmes is one not to be missed. It is a highly polished independant production that rivals the huge studios. Borowski has done his research and takes the viewer on a lunge into the sad annals of Chicago in the late-nineteenth century.
The eerie murky and white re-enactments brings the case to life, with the suspense of the frail monster films of the turn of the century. The haunting voice-over by esteemed actor Tony Jay gives the film it’s final touch.
I spy forward to future projects by John Borowski.
Amanda Howard
Author, River of Blood: Serial Killers and Their Victims.
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