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
- 2005-10-17
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 51 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- David Monaghan
Cast
- James Garrett as Narrator (voice)
- David Canter as Self - Criminal Psychologist
- Joseph Kozenczak as Self (as Det. Joe Kozenczak)
- Howard Markel as Self - Medical Historian
- Liz Spikol as Self - Philadelphia Weekly
- Beth Pitezel as Self - Grandaughter of Victim
- Brenda Pitezel as Self - Grandaughter of Victim
- H.H. Holmes as Self (archive sound)
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