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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Dark Pictures Anthol🌱ogy: The Devil In Me is a dark and twisted horror adventure. Playing as five unsuspecting victims (or heroes) as they navigate a murder castle of equally labyrinthine proportions, you'll come face to face with a copycat killer eager to replicate the notorious crimes of America's first serial killer, H.H. Holmes.
In the game, we only get to meet Holmes briefly during the exposition — and even then, it's staged as a reenactment of one of his murders. But how much about this murderous sociopath did the game get right, and how much of it was artistic license?
This article contains spoilers for The Dark P𝓡ictures Anthology: The Devil In Me, including the identity of the killer.
H.H. Holmes: The Basics
The Devil In Me doesn't go deep into Holmes' own upbringing, but after doing some research, it's clear that major antagonist Hector Munday shares a lot with him.
Holmes was born in 1861 in New Hampshire, USA, ไas Herman Webster Mudgett.
Raised by a devoutly religious mother and strict disciplinarian father, both Mudgett and Munday's tricky home lives influenced the monsters they later became. Mudgett was traumatized at a young age when a group of classmates scared him with a giant human skeleton from the school's science lab; this was something that led him to actually confront his fears and develop a keen interest in human anatomy instead.
The Name Of The Game
As well as this fascination, Mudgett was also a burgeoning conman and swindler. He relished tricking people out of their money, or straight-up stealing from banks by buying things on credit that he refused to pay off. After completing medical school, Mudgett changed his name to Henry Howard Holmes to evade law enforcement.
Similarly, The Devil In Me sees FBI Agent Hector Munday assuming various aliases, including that of Mr. Granthem Du'Met, a🐲s he commits his own litany of murders and♏ crimes.
In the same way that Holmes used aliases to acquire property and commit other acts of fraud, you can collect evidence in The Devil In Me that suggests Munday did the exact same thing in order to build his hotel. The collectible business cards each come with their own job title listed beneath Granthem Du'Met's name, showing that Munday never stopped changing his identity to reflect the needs of his heinous crimes.
The Real Murder Castle
Dr. Holmes went on to become a practicing chemist at local drugstores in the Chicago area, starting with the E.S. Holton Drugstore in 1886. During his time working there, Holmes purchased a plot of land just opposite the pharmacy, where he planned to build his fantasy murder palace. A grand and imposing structure on the streets of Chicago, it was affectionately nicknamed The Castle by onlookers who marveled at its sheer vastness.
Fact From Fiction
In The Devil In Me, we see Holmes welcoming a newlywed couple to his World's Fair Hotel before brutally killing them both. Although the real Castle designed and built by Holmes was not a proper hotel, he did rent out rooms on its third floor as offices, bedrooms, and other legitimate business uses. The street-level first floor housed a barber shop, a blacksmith, a jeweler's, and a restaurant. These gave it the outer image of being a respectable establishment, one that contributed to city life.
However, the second floor was designed by Holmes as a veritable killing field. Much like Du'Met's faithful reconstruction of the Worlds Fair Hotel, with all its trap doors, gas chambers, and moving walls, so was Holmes' real-life murder castle. It even had a chute he could use to send bodies down to the basement, where he w💙ould conduct grisly experiments — including cleaning and assembling whole skeletons out of his victims to be sold to nearby medical facilities, universities, and instituꦅtes.
During the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, however, Holmes did use the massive tourist trap as a hunting ground, where he preyed upon elderly women and offered to rent them a room at his property during their stay. Whilst many made it out꧃ alive, the same cannot be said for others.
The End Of An Era
After years of evading detection, Holmes was captured after murdering his right-hand man and longtime friend, Benjamin Pietzel. Although he had always intended to kill him, Holmes told Pietzel that he had hatched a plan to fake Pietzel's death in Philadelphia.
Then, with Pietzel going into hiding, his wife Carol would be able to claim a large sum in life insurance. This is not how things transpired, however; just as they planned, Holmes did indeed stage a tragic lab explosion in Philadelphia, but it was the real Benjamin Pietzel caught in the blaze after Holmes knocked him out with chloroform.
This is mirrored in The Devil in Me when Munday fakes his own death, setting fire to a murdered drifter that he had fitted with Munday's own teeth. This forced police to use dental records to identify the otherwise unrecognizable body, and Munday continued his killing spree under various false identities.
Trial Of The Century
Lonnit Entertainment's reconstruction of H.H. Holmes' trial got a few things right; he was indeed apprehended in 1894 and stood trial for his crimes, and he did confess to them in court by stating that "I was born with the Devil in me."
However, they missed the fact that Holmes actually dismissed his legal team and defended his own case in court. Of course, his barefaced🌌 lack of remorse for the horrible murders he had committed made it hard for any judge or jury to pity him. He is said to have only shown emotion when his wife, Georgiana Yoke, took the stand to testify; something he supposedly only did to garner sympathy.
Holmes was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging in 1896, just a few days shy of his 35th birthday. He requested to be buried in cement as a means to prevent his own body from being stolen, mutilated, or even studied by curious scientists keen to learn more about the USA's first serial killer.
This request was granted, but he was exhumed in 2017 under clai🧸ms that Holmes actually evaded his sentence and escaped after all. The body was confirmed as being the real Holmes, and he wa🦂s promptly reburied — this time, hopefully, for good.