Speckled Band Snake

Henry Howard Mudgett, better known as H.H Holmes, to most is just a ghost story. He is nothing more than a black mark on America’s extensive history, a part of history that is skipped over more often than not. However, H.H Holmes was an important part of United States history. Without the horrors of H.H Holmes, we would not have as strong of a law enforcement as we do today. H.H Holmes helped open a new world of research to psychologists and without him, psychologists would not have as much knowledge of the impacts of poor mental health as they do today. Because of H.H Holmes, the government would not know how to punish crimes of such high degree, or how to contribute certain factors such as mental illness for such crimes. H.H Holmes helped

The reason why Dr Roylott murdered Julia was the intention that he would gain money which shows his greediness and the extent he would go to to get what he wants. Also, when he meets Holmes he treats him with hostility and bends a "steel poker" into a curve and throws

When H.H. Holmes arrives in Chicago, he looks like any other ambitious young doctor braving the journey to the Windy City to start a new life. “He walked with confidence and dressed well, conjuring an impression of wealth and achievement. He was twenty-six years old… He had dark hair and striking blue eyes, once likened to the eyes of a Mesmerist,” describes the author. Larson cites a physician, John L. Capen, “‘Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes’” (35). In including this citation, Larson clues the reader in on Holmes’ true nature in addition to eliciting a feeling of unease through his diction. With this first impression, the reader is already wary of Holmes and his actions. Larson further solidifies this distrust with the following passages. “The city had impressed [Holmes], he said later, which was surprising because as a rule nothing impressed him, nothing moved him. Events and people captured his attention the way moving objects caught the notice of an amphibian: first a machinelike registration of proximity, next to calculation of worth, and last is a decision to act or remain motionless.” (37) With this quotation, Larson explains how Holmes chose

“They tend to share certain key characteristics. They're manipulative, cold, and lack what we might call a moral compass--they know right from wrong but are not invested in that distinction. Their only concern with their ‘wrong’ behavior is getting caught, but because they are deceitful, callous and not subject to anxiety, they easily elude capture” (Spikol, 5). These sort of criminals were ones that the Chicago Police Department had never been introduced to before, causing them to change their entire perspective on cases once Holmes’ had passed. According to John Bartlow Martin, a writer for the “Harper’s Archive”, Holmes’ murder castle was filled with trapdoors, gas chambers, secret passageways, and even pits of acid used to get rid of bodies and other pieces of evidence. These were all things that the law enforcers had never even heard of in a story, much less seen or thought of in real life. It’s safe to say that Holmes drastically affected the police’s outlook on the cases in the near, and even far, future of criminals after his mystery; or at least part of his mystery had been

H.H. Holmes was a great example to future serial killers. An “expert” like this must have a knowledge of how to murder people and get away with it while, at the same time, get something out of it. Although he was a horrible person and admitted to murdering 27 people and was hung for his crimes, H.H. Holmes was a great example to future serial killers with his fake credibility, dishonest sources of income, manipulative personality, and ability to cover up crimes.

Holmes had everything he could ever want, which was great for him of course. His childhood was very privileged, and he enjoyed it. People told his family that he was a very intelligent kid for his age. Holmes was treated well. As he grew up, he got interested in the art of medicine. He graduated from the University of Michigan. Holmes was married twice. Holmes was treated well there as well. He passed his exam to practice medicine. He was always treated well, he was smart. He was looked as an equal. This led Holmes to animal experiment and also used corpses as experimental subjects. Holmes also stole corpses and used them to make fake insurance claims. There were rumors that indicates that he was responsible for his friend’s death. That was the first rumored victim of Homes later on he got a job in a pharmacy. Which Holmes convinced the pharmacy wife’s owner to sell him the pharmacy due to his suppose claims that the owner had “passed away”, and it was rumored that he killed the owner of the pharmacy. Then one day the wife went missing, to which Holmes claimed that she had moved to California. But it’s

When discussing Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman case the speculation continues even today about the amount of patient was murder by him. Essentially, when people talk about the Dr. Shipman case it is a unique one of its own and many is always amused where the origin of that kind of behavior comes from. Nevertheless, Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman was known as the worst serial killer in British history when comes to the amount of victims. He killed at least 215 patients and it is believed he started committing these murders since his early to mid-twenties of age while he was still attending his last year of medical training. He was born in Nottingham and known to have a distant relationship with his father, but had a very close and intimate relationship with his mother. Furthermore, his mother died when he was seventeen and never saw Dr. Shipman complete medical school. Thus, his mother die of cancer, but leading up to her death he spent countless hours visualizing the pain and suffering his

The words he states: “complications” and “death”, is heavily stressed in this situation because “Press reports and devotees indicate that at least thirty-five persons died between 1936 and 1973 from the effects of poisonous snake bites” (Kane 260). Although more people live than die, I believe that forcing poison onto someone is an unhealthy and manipulative way of determining faith. In Cash’s novel, Adelaide Lyle mentions that during the ceremony, while Miss Jameson was dying from a snake bite in front of the whole church, members of the church including the pastor continued to sing and dance past Miss Jameson’s death and thrive with the loud, pulsing music. The deacons of the church

As an investigator, Sherlock Holmes was not guilty for the demise of Dr. Roylott. The story, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, when in the room of Helen Stoner, waited for evidence for the cause of Julia Stoner’s death. When both men traveled to the room of Dr. Roylott, they saw that Dr. Roylott was dead, with the speckled band-the deadliest snake in India- wrapped around Dr. Roylott’s head. The cause of Dr.Roylott’s death was not Sherlock Holmes’s accountability. Dr. Roylott had knowledge about animals from India; therefore he should have been able to control the snake. Additionally, Dr. Roylott never ended up dying when trying to kill Julia,

In the short story “Poison” by Roald Dahl, Harry Pope is laying in his bed while a Krait, which is a poisonous snake, crawls onto his stomach. When Harry’s buddy, Timber, gets home, Harry expresses concern for the snake, explaining how he hasn’t moved for hours in fear of being bit. Timber couldn’t see the snake because it was under the covers, but he trusted Harry’s word. So, the two of them began to think of different ways

Harold Shipman, in full Harold Frederick Shipman, was a British doctor and serial killer who murdered at least if not more that 215 of his patients (Jenkins, 2006.) His crimes raised many troubling questions about the powers and responsibilities of the medical community in Britain and about the adequacy of procedures for certifying sudden death (Jenkins, 2006.) Shipman was obsessed with killing people and got a thrill out of the acts he accomplished.

The Belcher sea snake live’s in deep water. They can be found all over in Manuk.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle explores mysteries through the eyes of Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes’s assistant. Holmes is able to amaze the people around him with his deductive abilities and can quickly determine aspects of a person’s life by just looking at them. This allows him to solve mysteries that others cannot wrap their heads around. He uses his skill to first help the King of Bohemia recover a picture of him with a former lover. Next, he investigates the disappearance of the Red-Headed League. In both of these mysteries he experiences a unique challenge due to the intelligence of his opponents and the unusual situation surrounding the case. The cunning and cleverness of Holmes, Irene Adler and the conspirators of the Red-Headed League are shown in the stories “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia”.

The snake was trained to kill his step daughters, eliminating one and then his own ¨weapon¨ turned on himself. In The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is investigating a death upon which the owners weapon turned on himself. Sherlock didn't physically kill Roylott, but is consulted of doing which. Although Sherlock knew the snakes were trained to kill humans, he wasn't able to predict which human it decided on killing. Then, unpredictably, the deadly snake turned on Dr Roylott killing him within ten seconds.

In the story “A Scandal in Bohemia,” we get a glimpse of Holmes’s character, a natural mastermind, through John Watson's narration. As with any narrated scene, our perception of Holmes