Most Terrifying Things About America’s First Serial Killer

H.H. Holmes Was Linked to a Missing Boy

Aside from Holmes’ creepy hobby, classmates reported no strange behavior other than the fact that he was occasionally violent with his wife, Clara. She eventually left him a year before graduation and moved back to New Hampshire. She never really spoke to him again. Holmes graduated and moved to Mooers Forks, New York.

It was in New York that disturbing rumors about the budding serial killer began to surface. Holmes was rumored to have been seen with a little boy who went missing. While, Holmes denied that he had anything to do with the disappearance and rather claimed the boy went back home to Massachusetts, certain people in town still began to eye him suspiciously. Although he continued to deny all involvement in the boy’s alleged disappearance, the rumors still had an effect on Holmes. Despite the fact that there was no official investigation, Holmes still decided to skip town and moved to Philadelphia.