He designed a hotel full of institutions, 1 year killed more than 200 people. Why do they all target the same kind of women?

The fifth season of American Horror Story is mainly set in the Cortes Hotel. In order to constantly experience murder, the owner of the hotel, March, built a hotel full of institutions. By getting married, he kept killing rich people and accumulated original capital. Mark and Cortez were not invented, but existed in history.

His name is Henry? Howard. Holmes, known as the first serial killer in American history, no one knows when he started committing crimes. The approximate time point is the same as that of Jack the Ripper. Although he is not as famous as Jack, he can't find a second one in the history of serial crimes.

Howard has a serious history of mental illness, devil worship and is proficient in surgery. 18 years old began to catch some small animals for anatomy. When he was studying in medical school, he started stealing autopsies, but gradually he felt that it was not exciting enough. He began to destroy the faces of these bodies and forge the names of the dead to defraud the insurance money.

Perhaps because he felt unable to satisfy his emotions, perhaps because of some kind of devil worship, Howard turned his attention to the living. He looked around for some single women with rich families. The first one is a widow who runs a grocery store. Howard got a job in the shop, and soon the widow disappeared.

He forged a family certificate and the grocery store became his property. Using this store as a pedal, Howard began to sell fake drugs. After accumulating a certain amount of wealth, he married the daughter of a local rich man, but this marriage only lasted for one year, and all the wealth of the rich man fell into his hands.

Howard left his hometown and built a three-story hotel-style building in a small town. He is a talented architect. He designed all the room structures, including a prison room, a gas chamber, an incinerator room and a lime well. It was not long before he opened the shop. 1893, he got married for the third time, and it is said that he met true love.

There are rumors that Howard's wife will stand by and watch him kill people, and Howard will cheat some girls into marrying him and killing them in various names, or killing some tenants. He has many means, such as watching them die in the gas chamber or cutting their wrists and watching them bleed to death.

He likes this? The art of death? However, in pursuit? Art? On the way, he was exposed. There are different opinions about why he was exposed. One of them is that Howard killed two sisters in Texas, burned down their houses and tried to defraud insurance, but the police found him.

Another way of saying it is that he was reported by his wife and had to burn down the hotel and flee everywhere, and more than 200 bodies were exposed to the world. However, at this critical juncture, he still did not forget to apply for compensation from the insurance company. Of course, he didn't do it. 1895, captured by the police.

Howard was executed soon after his arrest, although it did not cause much sensation, and there were only a few records in the history of American crime.