han three hundred girls in Peru, Ecuador and Columbia in the late seventies and early eighties until he was caught. When he was young he was molested by a pedophile and deserted by his family. Getting into theft, at 19 he went to prison where 4 other inmates sodomized him, he killed three of them as pay back. When released he traveled from Peru to Columbia, by this time he had killed over 150 girls. He would usually pick up prostitutes whom he strangled and later dumped their bodies in a river. Lopez was finally arrested after suspicion of murder in 1980. He told police of his amazing 300+ tally, and he led them to gravesites. Lopez was sentenced to life imprisonment. H. H. Holmes Holmes, properly known as Herman Webster Mudgett, killed twenty-seven people at his house in Chicago. Like Ted Bundy he was a handsome man and a favorite with the ladies. Holmes first married in 1878 while still a student, and in 1886 contracted a bigamous marriage with Myrta Belknap. He took to fraud as a means of livelihood, and in 1888 worked in Chicago as a drugstore chemist. The female boss disappeared in 1890, leaving Holmes in command of a business that thrived on sales of patent medicine. Holmes shared a flat above the store with a Jeweller called Icilius Conner and his wife Julia who acted as Holmes's secretary. Holmes purchased a large vacant plot across the road from the drugstore to build a hotel. The Gothic-style hotel resembled a castle and had 100 rooms. The hotel, aptly named 'Holmes's Castle' was designed by Benjamin F. Pitzel, and completed in 1891. Many people stayed at Holmes's castle and many disappeared, including Conners' wife and her daughter. An insurance fraud by Holmes, which resulted in the death of Pitzel, took police to Holmes's hotel, but Holmes had fled. He was captured in Philadelphia and charged with embezzlement and later with murder. The police searched Holmes's castle and discovered a death house. Some of the rooms had chut...
