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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes
http://www.biography.com/people/hh-holmes-307622
http://www.hhholmesthefilm.com/

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His victim discounting was that he was a wealthy man hungry for power and took away anyone in his path. He murdered most everyone around him. Any person that was in his way he realized he didn't need. If the majority of hiss murders were real, it is said that he also did a lot of them for pleasure. Not only did he kill people who inconvenienced him, he also did when he had leisure time. The murder castle where he tortured his victims did not serve much of a purpose other than just that.

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H.H. Holmes falls under the differential association theory. He was raised by a very wealthy family who, from what i have gathered, did not pay much attention to him. His primary groups where not the best to look up to in his sake and he did not fit in well. He become a business man and basically took a turn for the worst. Holmes says that he could not have stopped himself. He believed that he was born a murderer and such was his destiny.

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Holmes had both positive and negative functions on society. The positive function is that being one of the first greatly known serial killers opened the nations eyes. Many people started to become safer in their daily life. People had never heard of these things before and wanted to learn more. The negative functions were the obvious. He opened eyes to murders and killed many. Many people did not know they could get away with such things and began to try as well.

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I believe that the element of strain theory he used was innovation. Holmes wanted to be successful  but was not going to work hard to gain success. He wanted money and success so he thought of a different way to get them. He used his murders to basically get him higher up in the food chain. He found his own means of succeeding by committing insurance fraud and murders.

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The first case that Holmes was charged with was insurance fraud. He somewhat got out of that and then was on trial for the murder of his friend Pitezel. After his conviction of the murder, Holmes appealed his case and lost. On May 7, 1896, he payed he price and he was hanged for the Pitezel murder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His life as one of America's first serial killers has been the subject of many books and documentaries. He has influenced many lives as well as a lot of media.

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During this he also committed insurance fraud in his business with his friend Pitezel. He killed Pitezel when he thought he was lessening his success. He then convinced Pitezel’s wife that her husband was still alive. He didn't want the Pitezel children to expose him so he went away with three of the children, eventually killing them. Overall, he admitted to killing 27 people. Some say his killings range from 20 to 100 victims, going as high as 200 victims. His victim discounting was that he was a wealthy man and he murdered most everyone around him. Any person that was in his way he realized he didn't need.

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In 1886 Holmes moved to Chicago working as a pharmacist. He came up with the alias of Dr. H.H.Holmes. He then built a place that is now referred to as the "murder castle". Holmes has the three-story building constructed. The upper floors was where he lived and it had many small rooms where he tortured and killed his victims. Some of these rooms had gas jets so that Holmes could asphyxiate his victims. There were also trapdoors and chutes so that he could move the bodies down to the basement where he could burn his victims’ remains in a kiln.

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Holmes's life of crime began with various frauds and scams. As a medical student at the University of Michigan, he stole corpses, which he used to make false insurance claims. Holmes took the bodies and used them to experiment on. It is said that this is where he started his path of murders.

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Dr. H. H. Holmes was born Herman Webster Mudgett in 1861, New Hampshire. Born into a very wealthy family, Holmes had a privileged childhood. Many around him noticed that he appeared to be unusually intelligent at an early age. He had an interest in medicine, which led him to practice surgery on animals. Some say that he was responsible for the death of a friend.