The Trial Of John George Haigh

Author : Gordon Lowe
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075096670X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acid Bath Murders written by Gordon Lowe and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John George Haigh committed five perfect murders – by dissolving his wealthy victims in sulphuric acid. Then he tipped away the resultant soup to avoid detection on a ‘no body, no murder’ principle and used his victims’ property to fund his luxury lifestyle of silk ties and flashy cars.Murder number six was less than perfect. When a guest in Haigh’s hotel disappeared, the police found half-dissolved body parts carelessly thrown into the yard outside his secluded workshop. But was the urbane Mr Haigh, the man brought up by strict Plymouth Brethren parents in Yorkshire and dressed like a city stockbroker, really the monster he said he was? Did he really kill six innocent people just so he could drink their blood? Using unpublished archive papers, including recently released letters Haigh wrote from prison while awaiting execution, author Gordon Lowe sheds light on whether Haigh’s claims were a cynical ploy for a ticket into Broadmoor Hospital, or if he was a psychopathic vampire with a penchant for disposing of his victims in acid.

Author : Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473841232
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer written by Jonathan Oates and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulphuric acid? How did this intelligent, well-educated man from a loving, strongly religious family of Plymouth Brethren become a fraudster, a thief, then a serial killer? In the latest of his best-selling studies of criminal history, Jonathan Oates reinvestigates this sensational case of the late 1940s. He delves into Haigh's Yorkshire background, his reputation as a loner, a bully and a forger during his years at Wakefield Grammar School, and his growing appetite for the good life which his modest employment in insurance and advertising could not sustain. Then came his move to London and a rapid, apparently remorseless descent into the depths of crime, from deceit and theft to cold-blooded killing. As he follows the course of Haigh's crimes in graphic, forensic detail, Jonathan Oates gives a fascinating inside view of Haigh's attempt to carry through a series of perfect murders. For Haigh intended not only cut off his victims' lives but, by destroying their bodies with acid, literally to remove all traces that they had ever existed.

Author : Patrick Theobald Tower Butler Baron Dunboyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trial of John George Haigh written by Patrick Theobald Tower Butler Baron Dunboyne and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John George Haigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789090011349
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The trial of John George Haigh written by John George Haigh and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1783462140
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer written by Dr Jonathan Oates and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulphuric acid? How did this intelligent, well-educated man from a loving, strongly religious family of Plymouth Brethren become a fraudster, a thief, then a serial killer? In the latest of his best-selling studies of criminal history, Jonathan Oates reinvestigates this sensational case of the late 1940s. He delves into Haigh's Yorkshire background, his reputation as a loner, a bully and a forger during his years at Wakefield Grammar School, and his growing appetite for the good life which his modest employment in insurance and advertising could not sustain. Then came his move to London and a rapid, apparently remorseless descent into the depths of crime, from deceit and theft to cold-blooded killing. As he follows the course of Haigh's crimes in graphic, forensic detail, Jonathan Oates gives a fascinating inside view of Haigh's attempt to carry through a series of perfect murders. For Haigh intended not only cut off his victims' lives but, by destroying their bodies with acid, literally to remove all traces that they had ever existed.

Author : Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1845631412
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Christie of Rillington Place written by Jonathan Oates and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to one of the most sensational, shocking and controversial serial murder cases in British criminal history the case of John Christie. Much has been written about the Christie killings and the fate of Timothy Evans who was executed for murders Christie later confessed to the story still provokes strong feeling and speculation. However, most the books on the case have been compiled without the benefit of all the sources that are open to researchers, and they tend to focus on Evans in an attempt to clear him of guilt. In addition, many simply repeat what has been said before. Therefore, a painstaking, scholarly reassessment of the evidence - and of Christies life - is overdue, and that is what Jonathan Oates provides in this gripping biography of a serial killer.

Author : James Hozier Hodge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140009835
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous Trials written by James Hozier Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9781552094839
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Evidence written by David Owen and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of forensic science in solving crimes, with real-life case examples.

Author : Sean O'Connor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471101355
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handsome Brute written by Sean O'Connor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsome Bruteexplores the facts of a once-renowned, now little-remembered British murder case, the killings of the charming, but deadly ex-RAF playboy Neville Heath. Since the 1940s, Heath has generally been dismissed as a sadistic sex-killer - the preserve of sensational Murder Anthologies - and little else. But the story behind the tabloid headlines reveals itself to be complex and ambiguous, provoking unsettling questions that echo across the decades to the present day. Handsome Bruteis both an examination of the age of austerity, and a real-life thriller as shocking and provocative as American Psycho or The Killer Inside Me, exploring the perspectives of the women in Heath's life - his wife, his mother, his lovers - and his victims. This collage of experiences from the women who knew him intimately probes the schism at the heart of his fascinating, chilling personality.

Author : Nick Foster
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1627793720
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jolly Roger Social Club written by Nick Foster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka 'Wild Bill,' is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American ex-patriots. Holbert's first victims were the Brown family, who lived on a remote island in the area's Darklands. There, Holbert turned their home into the 'Jolly Roger Social Club,' using drink- and drug-fueled parties to get to know other ex-pats ... But this is not just a book about what Holbert did and the complex financial and real estate motives behind the killings; it is about why Bocas del Toro turned out to be his perfect hunting ground, and why the community tolerated--even accepted--him for a time"