John George Haigh

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John George Haigh (1909-1949) was a British criminal known as the 'Acid bath killer'.

He was born and brought up in Yorkshire in a deeply religious family: his parents were devout Plymouth Brethren and took care to protect their son from worldly evils. As a young adult, he served prison sentences for fraud, and in 1944 graduated to murder, killing one McSwann, a business associate, and dissolving his body in a vat of acid kept at a rented lock-up workshop. He may have killed a second victim later in 1944, before murdering McSwann's parents in 1945, forging a power of attorney and stealing pension and assets. Again, the victims' bodies were destroyed by acid. Running out of the McSwanns' money, he befriended and murdered Dr and Mrs Henderson, disposing of their bodies in acid at a new workshop, in Crawley, Sussex, and, in face of suspicion, was able to convince police that the Hendersons had fled to South Africa by slandering Dr Henderson as an illegal abortionist. In 1948 he befriended a rich widow, Mrs Durand Deacon, who suffered the same fate as Haigh's other victims. However, suspicions were aroused, and police investigations led the forensic pathologist Dr Keith Simpson to examine the Crawley site, where he found undissolved body parts including a foot of Dr Henderson and Mrs Durand Deacon's gallstones.

At his trial Haigh claimed to have drunk the blood of his victims in vampiric ceremonies in an attempt to escape the death penalty through a verdict of insanity. This failed, however; he was convicted of murder and on 6 August 1949 was hanged at Wandsworth Prison, London.