The 1940s serial killer John George Haigh, also known as the Acid bath murderer, was born July 24, 1909 in Stamford England, His parents, John Robert, an engineer, and Emily, née Hudson, were members of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative Protestant style that believed in extremely strict lifestyles. He was confined to living within a 10 feet wall that his father put up in their yard in order to lock out the outside world. Haigh would later claim he suffered from recurring religious nightmares in his childhood as an insanity defense.
On July 6, 1934, Haigh married Beatrice' Hamer. The same year Haigh was jailed for fraud, Betty gave birth to a child that she gave up to adoption while Haigh was serving time in prison and then left Haigh. His conservative family had nothing to do with him after that. He then moved to London in 1936, and became a driver to William McSwan, a wealthy owner of amusement parlors. Following that he continued in fraud as a fake solicitor and received a four-year prison sentence for fraud. Haigh was released after the start of World War Two and continued in fraud, and was sentenced to several more terms of jail time.
While in prison he came up with what he considered to be the way to commit the perfect murder due to him misunderstanding the concept of Corpus delicti
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Police not only found packages containing a dry cleaner’s receipt for Mrs. Durand-Deacon’s coat, but also papers referring to his past victims. Further investigation of the sludge at the workshop revealed three human gallstones and part of a denture which was later identified by Mrs. Durand-Deacon's dentist during the trial and conviction. Questioned by inspector Albert Webb, Haigh asked him what the chances of being are released from a high security insane asylum rather than going to prison. Believing that if he could convince a jury that he was insane to prevent from being locked up in prison