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Murder Hotel: The Story of America's First Serial Killer (2005)
Directed by David Monaghan
Documentary · 51m
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.
Cast
James Garrett
Narrator (voice)
D
David Canter
Self - Criminal Psychologist
J
Joseph Kozenczak
Self (as Det. Joe Kozenczak)
H
Howard Markel
Self - Medical Historian
L
Liz Spikol
Self - Philadelphia Weekly
B
Beth Pitezel
Self - Grandaughter of Victim
B
Brenda Pitezel
Self - Grandaughter of Victim
H
H.H. Holmes
Self (archive sound)
Crew
- Director
- David Monaghan
- Writer
- David Monaghan
- Editor
- Chris Lawrence
Details
- Release date
- 2005-10-17
- Runtime
- 51m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- David Monaghan Productions, ITV West, Barcud Derwen