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H.H. Holmes.
He murdered a lot of people during the late 19th century in a castle-like building he had built for him that was all business spaces on the first floor and a boarding house on the 2 floors above.
He killed his victims with gas, then cremated them in a furnace he had built for the purpose down in the basement.
Most of the murders occurred during Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Millions of people flocked to Chicago to go to it, and thousands moved into Chicago believing the Expo would give them work.
Holmes was so mild mannered and inconsequential looking none of his victims ever thought he was a threat. But when he decided to kill someone, they very seldom survived. Most of his failures were do to interruption and gas failures than anything else.
He confessed to 27 murders, was executed for 4, and may have committed as many as 200.
I will say Robert Pickton the "pig farmer" who picked up hookers in Vancouver and took them back to his farm and tied them up tortured them and then slaughtered them and fed them to his pigs appearently. Also Ted Bundy always creeped me out! there are many more but those are the top 2!
Richard Speck, who killed 8 nurses in Chicago, in 1966, in a very short space of time.
Did you see Speck on A&E with boobs?
I couldn't believe that, how in the world did he get the operation while in prison? Or if he only needed medication, how did he get that?
Yes he was very scary, I had just left home/moved to Chicago and was scared to death.
Coral Watts scared me the most. Not only did he kill women in 3 neighborhoods where I lived or went to school in or both, he somehow wangled a deal whereby he confessed to dozens of killings and never got prosecuted for any of them, and THEN nearly got paroled as a non-violent offender. The way he killed people -- choosing victims very randomly and killing them with whatever came to hand, be it a bucket of water or a coathanger, with next to no evidence left behind -- would have made him nearly impossible to catch if he hadn't blabbed on himself.
Ted Bundy and the BTK killer because their incarnation of ''evil'' appeared to be just normal, friendly guys that you'd never in a million years suspect of being what they were.
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