Elizabeth Arkham Asylum For the Criminally Insane

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The history of Arkham Asylum began in the early 1900s. Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is named after Elizabeth Arkham, who was the mother of Amadeus Arkham, the founder. Amadeus’s mother was suffering from mental illness and eventually committed suicide. Amadeus became the sole heir to the Arkham estate and decided to treat mentally ill patients in order for those to not go through what his mother went though. Amadeus also got married to a woman named Constance and had a daughter name Harriet. He decided to turn his family home into an asylum to treat patients, but while it was being built he treated patients at the State Psychiatric Hospital, while also living at the Hospital with his family. Eventually the family would move back to their home at the Arkham house, while back at home Arkham was notified by the police that one of his patient named Martin “ Mad Dog” Hawkins had escaped from prison.

On April 1, 1921 Arkham returns home and discovers his wife raped and murdered laying next to their lifeless daughter with “Mad Dog” carved on her body. The same year Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane officially opened in November. One of the first patients was Martin Hawkins himself, who Arkham personally insisted on treating. On April 1, 1922 Martin Hawkins was strapped to an electric chair for “treatment” and was electrocuted to death. The death was covered up as an “accident” and Arkham began to fall into madness, believing that the reason he lives is to be an executioner. Arkham would be institutionalized at his own mental hospital, Arkham Asylum, later in life. Arkham died as an inmate in his own asylum.

There are rumors that he haunts Arkham Asylum to this day or that, in his final madness, he managed to curse Arkham Asylum with a ... something ... that feeds off the madness within and will therefore never allow any patient to recover.

Arkham Asylum would later be used to imprison some truly insane characters, for example, the Joker and Two-Face who were one of the first inmates of Arkham Asylum. Arkham soon came to imprison all of Batman’s supervillain enemies whether they are insane or not, in part because it had containment facilities for supervillains far superior to those at the regular prisons.


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