this is really the most interesting one but whatever

jigsaw? is that you?

Holmes was a mass killer based in Chicago, who built himself a hotel for the 1893 World’s Fair. While he confessed to 27 murders, only nine of those were confirmed, and it’s possible he killed many more. The convenient fact that he owned a hotel gave him a handy area in which to undertake his nefarious deeds. He owned a drugstore beneath the hotel, and intentionally built the structure in an incredibly twisted way. It was a maze of over one hundred windowless rooms with doorways opening to brick walls, oddly angled hallways, stairways to nowhere, doors openable only from the outside, and a host of other strange and labyrinthine constructions. He even changed the instructions to the building crew constantly, so only he knew his way around. He would then select female employees or visiting guests, and torture and killed them. He had rooms fitted with gas pipes to asphyxiate, or threw them in an airtight soundproof vault to suffocate. Bodies were dropped by chute into the basement, where they were dissected, and sold to medical students; dissolved in acid; or cremated. He also performed illegal abortions, which often lead to the mothers’ death, but I’m guessing he didn’t mind. Holmes wasn’t caught till years later, after traveling all over the USA and Canada, and probably killing many others as he went. Estimates of his actual death toll go as high as 230, and he was hanged for his crimes.