Who was the first serial killer in the USA? I seem that it was H. H. Holmes who killed from Chicago to Fort Worth. Have you ever heard of him?

I though I had seen something on him on Biography on Serial killers or the History channel in 2008

I thought it was the guys who came up with "Manifest Destiny".

America's first serial killer was Abraham Lincoln.

Ok lets be real. That is just not true.

Under the administration of Abraham Lincoln, 600,000 Americans were sent to their graves. Another sixty thousand are said to have died in the ensuing famine which overtook the south.

not the same thing. But then you might be for slavery.

I'm vehemently opposed to slavery--of ANY kind.

So you think Lincoln was wrong to wage war to end it. Yet you claim to be against slavery.

First, since slavery didn't become a major issue of contention between Lincoln and the south until about two thirds of the way into the war, I don't accept the premise that the whole war was 'about slavery.' More than anything else, the war was precipitated by the south's refusal to surrender its sovereignty in regard to the payment of crippling tariffs.

Second, I can still be vehemently opposed to slavery (of ANY kind) and believe Lincoln was a mass murderer. There were OTHER ways to address the slavery issue than unrestrained barbarity (on both sides)--economic isolation, for instance. Even IF the whole war had been 'about slavery' as so many Americans erroneously believe, there were OTHER WAYS to resolve the issue.

Yes, I've read Devil in the White City twice.

I figured it would be one of these two.

Looks like a pic of Dr. Daniel Mudgett who had the death hotel in/near Chicago. Yeah I have read about him.

Yes it is him. It talks all about the name changes in some of the links.