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The Acid Bath Murderer - 1949

Its February 1949, I am in Crawley, in West Sussex and there has been a murder! John George Haigh was 39 years old when he lured Mrs Durand-Deacon to his Crawley workshop on the pretext of showingher some special plastic for an invention idea she had. Haigh shot her dead and put her fully clothed head first in to an oil drum and filled it with Sulphuric acid. Over the next five days, Mrs. Durand-Deacon's body disolved into a pile of yellow sludge which haigh dumped close to his work shop. He thought he had the perfect murder, for without a body the Police couldn't prove anything.... .... at least that's what he thought!

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John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murder
John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murder
John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murder
Queen's Gate, London, where the Onslow Hotel was situated.
John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murder
Onslow Court Hotel, London
John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murder
The protective gear worn by Haigh while disolving the body.
John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murder
A policeman demonstrates how the acid worked to disolve a Human body.
John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murder
The workshop in Leopold Road, Crawley, Sussex where the bodies where disolved.
John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murder
Haigh arrested and taken to court in Horsham, Sussex.
John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murder
Haigh on the way to prison.
John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murder
Leopold Road, now a residental road, but I have mapped out where it was the workshop once stood.

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