Q of the Day: Which Serial Killer(s) Would You Consider the Most Infamous and Horrible?

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I've been watching some TV series lately focused on the most heinous serial killers throughout history. There is quite a list of these despicable human beings, and I was curious as to which ones you would rate as the worst of the worst. There are so many to choose from, but most would immediately remember London, England's "Jack the Ripper." Even his name was infamous, and the fact he got away with it and was never captured added to his mystery. However, I'm going to choose someone not as well-known for my pick as the most vicious and evil serial killer. My choice is H.H. Holmes known as the "Beast of Chicago." He was responsible from anywhere from 20 to 200 deaths from 1891-1894. Holmes only admitted to 27 in custody. He was a pharmacist by trade and a con-man who turned his 3-story home into a torture castle. Holmes constructed this home with secret passages, trap doors, soundproof rooms, gas jets, and a kiln. He used gas to knock out his victims mutilating and eventually killing them on his surgical table. Holmes would then burn the victims in his kiln and sell many of the skeletons to local medical schools. Holmes also ran a life insurance scam designed to collect insurance payouts upon the deaths of the multiple women he seduced and married. He would take out a policy by conning these women, then he would murder them and receive the life insurance. He was finally apprehended for murdering his partner, Ben Pitezel, his accomplice in many of his fraud schemes to collect on a life insurance policy they took out in his name. His partner's widow knew of and exposed the fraud to the authorities resulting in Holmes capture in 1894. Holmes was also accused of killing Mrs. Pitezel's three children to keep them quiet because they knew about the fraud. He was sentenced to death for Pitezel's murder and was hanged in 1896. He was considered America's first serial killer. So, who is your pick(s)? Some Source Info: Wikipedia Photo- Amazon