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 ...

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.

Herman Webster Mudgett, better known to the world as H.H. Holmes or “America’s first serial killer,” was set to hang for the horrific murder of his late business partner, Benjamin Pitezel.

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 ...