John George Haigh: The Acid Bath Killer

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John George Haigh also known as the acid bath killer was born on July 24th 1909 He was born in the U.K raised in the Village of Outwood, West Riding Of Yorkshire His parents John and Emily Hudson were engineers. As a child John George claimed he religious nightmares. Despite these accusations John developed a passion and love for music and playing piano He preferred classical music and often attended concerts containing classical music Haigh was a very smart and educated as a young boy. He won a scholarship to Queen Elizabeth Grammar school He would later win a scholarship to Wakefield Cathedral He was later introduced to the choir and became a choir boy After his school days he was apprenticed to a firm of motor engineers. A year later …show more content…

He kept maintenance on McSwans amusement machines. Soon after Haigh posed as a solicitor going by the name William Cato Adamson. He sold false stock shares He mainly used estates of his victims he earlier killed. He would later receive another bid in jail for fraud. He claimed his arrests were due to the fact he left victims alive in past crimes. He later became intrigued with famous murderer Georges Sarret who desposed of his victims in sulphuric acid. Haigh was freed from prison again in 1943 and became an accountant with an engineer firm. He would late cross paths with his former employer McSwan On September 6th 1943 McSwan vanished. Haigh admitted to putting his body in a 40 gallon container and filled it sulphuric acid. Haigh would later tell McSwans parents their son went into hiding to avoid being drafted to the military for World War II He would later assume control over McSwans home collected rents for his parents. His parents would become suspicious as to why their son had not returned home as the war was coming to an end in 1945. He would lure McSwans parents to a road with an abandoned house on …show more content…

In the summer of 1947 to solve his financial problems he found another rich couple to kill Rob and Rose Henderson. He killed them after gaining interest in a house they were selling. He was invited to play piano at a housewarming party by Rose Henderson. While there he did some recon work stealing a revolver he planned to use for their murders. He rented a small workshop and moved in two acid drums for their disposal. On February 12th he drove Rob Crawley’s a hotel. He later shot him in the head with the stolen gun. He would lure Mrs. Henderson to the workshop by telling her that her husband fell. After he disposed of the bodies he forged a letter and sold all their possessions. (He kept their dog & car) He then targeted a rich widow Olive Decon Haigh had been calling himself an engineer and Olive mentioned an idea for artificial fingernails on 18 February 1949 Olive went missing. Haigh lured her down to the Leopold Road workshop He shot her in the back with the same revolver he’d stolen from the Hendersons He would also dump her body in a drum filled with acid. Olive’s friend Constance reported her missing two days

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