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John George Haigh’s crimes were some of the most shocking ever seen in Britain. Driven by greed he killed six people ... plunging the victims into vats of acid. Fred Dinenage s1e2: Murder Casebook: The Acid Bath Murderer, CI 2011
It was like a scene from a Hammer horror movie. ibid.
Haigh believed the acid had dissolved his victims and if the police couldn't find a body there were no legal grounds to convict him. ibid.
It took the jury just fifteen minutes to come to a verdict. ibid.
There were no signs of remorse for his victims. ibid.
John George Haigh was the serial killer from middle England who killed the middle class. The sludge at the bottom of the barrels in which he’s dissolved these poor people is poured down the drains. Professor David Wilson, criminologist
1His motivation was simply to make money. Professor David Wilson
A 69-year old widow – Olivia Durand-Deacon ... Always cheerful and well-dressed Haigh drove a smart Alvis motorcar. He told people at the hotel that he was the owner of a prosperous small factory in Crawley. Great Crimes & Trials s1e20: Haigh The Acid Bath Murderer, BBC 1993
Haigh complained to the press about police harassment. ibid.
A pair of heavy rubber gloves and a rubber apron stained with chemicals. There was also a war-time gas-mask, some empty acid containers and some corroded metal drums. When they found a revolver the detectives knew they were on to something. ibid.
Haigh was to show no remorse or concern for his victims. ibid.
Once again he [Haigh] claimed to have drunk his victims’ blood before disposing of them. ibid.
They took only thirteen minutes to find Haigh guilty. ibid.
I have destroyed her with acid. You will find the remains at Leopold Road. Every trace of her body is gone. John George Haigh to rozzer
Eight-Day Riddle of Missing London Hotel Guest: All-England hunt for rich widow. Evening Standard headline
Acid Murders In Cellar. Daily Express headline
Vampire – A Man Held. Daily Mirror headline [newspaper and editor fined for contempt of court]
When I was a boy I knew that one day I’d be famous, that destiny had great things in store for me. A is for Acid 2002 starring Martin Clunes & Keeley Hawes & Richard Hope & Celia Imrie & Rowena Cooper & Terence Beesley & Barbara Marten & Claire Nielson et al, director Harry Bradbeer, opening lines
If we were truly God’s elect, then surely He should have looked after us. ibid.
Why don’t you come to my workshop and I’ll take a fitting? ibid. John to old victim
I destroyed her with acid. ibid. John to rozzer
I suppose that’s nine. ibid.
These were incidentals. It all started with a dream I used to have as a small child. ibid.
On February 26th 1949 John Haigh was being questioned by police about the disappearance of a woman … ‘I have destroyed her with acid … How can you prove murder if there is no body?’ … He admitted five further murders … Haigh was a serial killer who murdered for money. Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals I: A Question of Identity, BBC 2015
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His wife’s gone missing two days before, and there he is offering a large sum of money. The Real Manhunter s1e7: Maureen Hale, BBC 2021
It looked even at the first [cold case] review as if we didn’t need any more evidence than what was discovered before but we did find some. ibid.
22 June 1999: Martin Hale’s version of events was that at the end of that row, Maureen Hale took up, left the house and was never seen again. ibid.
A three-week trial and at the end of the trial he was found not guilty. ibid.
Maureen Hale went missing without trace in 1999. Her husband, Martin Hale, was subsequently acquitted of her murder. The Metropolitan Police now considered this case closed and no further enquiries are being pursued. ibid. captions
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The boot of the car had been opened and a body found in it ... While ‘Hall’ was in hospital, his companion confronted with the body had begun to talk. Great Crimes & Trials: Roy Fontaine
Archibald Hall as Roy Fontaine, and it was under this name that police discovered he had a long string of convictions, none of them yet for murder. ibid.
Roy Fontaine: a conman and thief ... He specialised in becoming butler to wealthy and elderly couples before robbing them. His current employers were a wealthy 82-year-old businessman Walter Scott-Elliot and Dorothy his wife. They lived in a luxury flat on London’s exclusive Sloan Street. ibid.
With Mrs Scott-Elliot’s body in the boot of their car, and Mr Scott-Elliot heavily drugged ... they drove into Scotland. ibid.
Dorothy Scott-Elliot’s body was buried ... His [Mr Scott-Elliott] body was left under heather and leaves beside a small burn. Fontaine seemed to have no regrets. ibid.
Fontaine and Kitto headed back into Scotland with Mary Coggle’s [accomplice] body in the boot. Near the village of Middlebie they dumped it in a stream. ibid.
Yet another body had been discovered in the boot of Fontaine’s car: Fontaine’s true name was Archibald Hall and he had a brother ... He seemed unable to keep his mouth shut ... The next day with yet another body concealed in the boot of their car Kitto and Fontaine set off into Scotland again. ibid.