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  • Complete Monster: "The World's Columbian Exposition": H.H. Holmes is far worse than any member of Rittenhouse. After abandoning his own wife and children, Holmes will go on to con and murder many women, eventually setting up a hotel during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair equipped with many death traps used to kill unsuspecting victims such as poisonous gas and soundproof isolation chambers designed to kill people through oxygen deprivation. When Rufus and Wyatt fell afoul of one of his traps after being tricked by Garcia Flynn to enter the World's Fair Hotel, Holmes would disguise himself as an unsuspecting victim imprisoned with them named George Henry just to see his victims expressing fear in their final moments. After Lucy saves them with the help of Harry Houdini, Holmes kidnaps and subsequently tortures Lucy when she discovers Henry's true identity, planning to kill himself and Lucy to avoid capture. When his plan was thwarted by Wyatt, Holmes makes one last con, lying about wanting to confess his murders to his victims' families in order to save his own skin.

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