Earlier this year, a team of researchers exhumed the grave of Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H.H. Holmes, pursuing century-old rumors that America’s first serial killer escaped his execution in 1896.

It turns out that Jeff is actually the great-great-grandson of Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H. H. Holmes. After learning this shocking news, Mudgett dove into research about his ...

He insisted his body be buried in tonnes of cement. Now it’s being dug up. Herman Webster Mudgett, better known to the world as H.H. Holmes or “America’s first serial killer,” was set to ...

In 1896 Chicago, serial killer Heram Webster Mudgett was hanged and buried in the Englewood neighborhood where he lived and killed. 110 years later, a local reporter investigates a series of ...