'American Ripper': Inside New Investigation into Serial Killer H.H. Holmes

Earlier this year, a team of researchers exhumed the grave of Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H.H. Holmes, pursuing century-old rumors that America's first serial killer escaped his execution in 1896. The unearthing process is featured in the new History channel eight-part series American Ripper, which premieres on

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