John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer: A Portrait of a Serial Killer and His Victims

by Jonathan Oates

Book Overview

What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulfuric acid? 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? In the latest of his best-selling studies of criminal history, Jonathan Oates reinvestigates this sensational case of the late 1940s. He delves into Haigh's Yorkshire background,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473837936
• ISBN13: 9781473837935
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Wharncliffe
• Length: 224 Pages