Hollywood makes serial killers seem entertaining and extremely smart in movies like “Hannibal” or TV shows like “Dexter,” unlike their chillingly creepy real-life counterparts. As if torturing, murdering (and sometimes eating) their victims wasn’t terrifying enough, it should come as no surprise that there are other creepy facts about most serial killers. Here are some of the worst of the bunch.
H.H. Holmes
H.H. Holmes was America’s first serial killer, but he was also sort of a poet. If you can call him that. In one of his interviews, he said he couldn’t help being “a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”