Murder Hotel: The Story of America's First Serial Killer (2005)

A documentary about H.H. Holmes who was a famed serial killer in the late 1800s. He had a whole murder castle built specifically for that purpose. He spent nearly a decade hiring and firing builders to add pieces to his house that included pipes for pumping gas into bedrooms, a room built specifically to suffocate people, and a murder basement where he would strip the skin from his victims.

Released Oct. 17, 2005 51 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-movie, imdb.world-s-fair, imdb.1893-columbian-exposition, imdb.torture, imdb.serial-killer, imdb.reenactment, imdb.reconstruction + 7 more, imdb.rape, imdb.miniaturization, imdb.corpse, imdb.archive-footage, imdb.anatomy, imdb.1890s, imdb.reference-to-h-h-holmes