John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer: A Portrait of a by Dr Jonathan Oates

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By Dr Jonathan Oates

What stimulated John George Haigh to homicide not less than six humans, then dissolve their corpses in centred sulphuric acid? How did this clever, well-educated guy from a loving, strongly non secular kin of Plymouth Brethren turn into a fraudster, a thief, then a serial killer? within the most recent of his best-selling experiences of felony background, Jonathan Oates reinvestigates this sensational case of the overdue Forties. He delves into Haigh's Yorkshire history, his acceptance as a loner, a bully and a forger in the course of his years at Wakefield Grammar college, and his transforming into urge for food for the nice lifestyles which his modest employment in coverage and ads couldn't maintain. Then got here his flow to London and a fast, it seems that remorseless descent into the depths of crime, from deceit and robbery to cold-blooded killing. As he follows the process Haigh's crimes in photograph, forensic aspect, Jonathan Oates offers a desirable within view of Haigh's try and hold via a sequence of excellent murders. For Haigh meant not just bring to an end his sufferers' lives yet, via destroying their our bodies with acid, actually to take away all lines they'd ever existed.

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