John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer Oates Jonathan
John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer Oates Jonathan What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulfuric acid? In the latest of…
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John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer Oates Jonathan
What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulfuric acid? In the latest of his best-selling studies of criminal history, Jonathan Oates reinvestigates this sensational case of the late 1940s. 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?
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. 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. As he follows the course of Haigh's crimes in graphic, forensic detail, Jonathan
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