John Haigh lured victims with charm, then bodies dissolved in acid

At one point, John Haigh could have thought he could have escaped his crimes forever.

It seems that the English artist realized a way to kill without a trace, opening -io opportunity to go on one of the most terrible killed in the country in the 1940s, when Haigh killed at least six people and disintegrated the bodies using sulfuric acid, suitable for History press.

Haigh’s crimes won the nickname “The Acid Bath Vampire” from the Local Media, and he became known as one of the most notorious killer in English, according to Cambridge Universitywhere more than 100 of his personal letters – some wrote about his crimes – were housed at the University Criminology Institute in 2007.

The letters proved to be the fall of Haigh, when the police discovered them together with evidence of a burnt body in the back corner of his Crawley workshop, England. But until then, for his victims, it was already too late.

A crime life

Haigh was fought in early adulthood after a piano life and singing gave room for an insurance job that he got tired quickly, according to author Neil Root’s book Frenzy!: Heath, Haigh and Christie About series killers in the 20th century series.

The 21 -year -old will be fired from work to steal money, launching a life of awareness of others for financial win. Haigh was “charming”, according to Root’s book, which led to his success in fraud and false.

Soon Haigh discovered a faster and more brutal way of getting rich.

The pursuit of the “acid of acid”

After being released from prison in 1944, following a fraud conviction, Haigh was for the first time a former rich friend, William McSwann, according to Cambridge University. Haigh killed McSwann and removed the body using acid before becoming friends later and killing McSwann Don and Amy’s parents. Haigh will continue to steal the pension checks of the rich couple and assume the properties on their properties, selling for a massive profit -and moving to its next victims.

According to the history press, Haigh was never clear about how he made his money, although he claimed to be a civilian and inventor engineer. He even had a small workshop in Crawley, where he sometimes invited people to discuss business offers, but once the situation took a much more sinister turn.

Haigi would convince the victims to come to his workshop, where the crimes and “acid baths” took place. The confident killer believed that he had condemned the “perfect crime”, according to Cambridge University. That is, until the investigative science has caught it.

Arrest and execution of Haigh

Police became suspected by Haigh when a rich widow, Olive Durand -deac, disappeared. Haigh met with Durand-Deacon at an expensive hotel in London, where he lived, according to The History Press. Haigh convinced the widow to come to his workshop and see an “invention” in which he claimed to work and wanted to invest. But at the hotel, Haigh killed her on Durand -deac and disintegrated her body-this time throwing what was left of the remains in a back corner of the building instead of pouring it

Haigh confessed to crimes after forensic investigators confirmed the sludge found in his workshop contained in human remains, according to Press history. But Haigh would try to use madness as defense -a request that was debated since a court rejected it in 1949 and sentenced him to death.

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Professor Friedrich Loesel, director at the Criminology Institute of Cambridge, said that there is “little evidence” who understood “the emotional impact of what he did”, leading historians to wonder if he had signs of psychopathy. “It is as if he heard the tone, but he does not understand music,” Loesel ended in the writings of Cambridge about Haigh’s letters.

Haigh was hanged in August 1949, ending what Root called one of the cases of murder with the highest profile of the Second World War, one of several that provided “a level of coverage never seen so far, the precursor of the press frantics surrounding the series today.”