"The Goat, Kensington The Goat is a public house in Kensington, London, at 3a Kensington High Street that dates back to 1695. It is where the English serial killer John George Haigh, the ""Acid Bath Murderer"", met his first victim. The Goat is the oldest remaining pub on Kensington High Street, being constructed in 1695. The area had become a regular east-west route when King William built Kensington Palace and The Goat was the first significant building on this new thoroughfare. It was built as a coffeehouse but, by 1702, it was an alehouse. In 1707, the freehold was purchased"
"John Haigh John George Haigh (; 24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer. He was convicted for the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine. He battered or shot his victims to death and used concentrated sulphuric acid to dispose of their corpses before forging papers so he could sell the victims' possessions and collect substantial sums of money. During the investigation, it became apparent that Haigh was using the acid to destroy victims' bodies because he misunderstood the meaning of the term ""corpus"
"Georges-Alexandre Sarret Georges-Alexandre Sarret (born Giorgio Sarrejani; 23 September 1878 – 10 April 1934) was an Italian-born French criminal who was the last person to be executed in Aix-en-Provence. He was guillotined for double murder in a notorious case that involved him dissolving the bodies of his victims in sulphuric acid. Sarret's crimes reportedly inspired English serial killer John George Haigh, known as the Acid Bath Murderer. Sarret was born in Trieste, of Greek descent, and immigrated to France in his youth. He studied medicine, chemistry and law at the University of Marseille. He became a lawyer and then a"
"the Bath"" serial killer George Joseph Smith drowned his second wife Alice in their rented room of a boarding house on Regent Road. He was due to be the beneficiary of a sizeable life insurance policy upon his wife's death. In 1971, Supt Gerry Richardson, 38, was shot dead while chasing a gang of London thugs who had robbed a resort jewellers. The five-man group bungled the raid on Preston's Jewellers in the Strand. They arrived late and failed to check a back room where the shop manager had already raised a silent alarm connected to Blackpool Police Station. As"
"Travers Humphreys Sir Richard Somers Travers Christmas Humphreys (4 August 1867 – 20 February 1956) was a noted British barrister and judge who, during a sixty-year legal career, was involved in the cases of Oscar Wilde and the murderers Hawley Harvey Crippen, George Joseph Smith and John George Haigh, the 'Acid Bath Murderer', among many others. Travers Humphreys was born in Doughty Street in Bloomsbury in London, the fourth son and sixth child of solicitor Charles Octavius Humphreys, and his wife, Harriet Ann (née Grain), the sister of the entertainer Richard Corney Grain. Humphreys was educated at Shrewsbury School and"
"the Homicide Act 1957 which reduced the grounds for execution by differentiating between capital and non-capital charges for homicide. From the late 1940s and into the 1950s Pierrepoint, Britain's most experienced executioner, carried out several more hangings, including those of prisoners described by his biographer, Brian Bailey, as ""the most notorious murderers of the period ... [and] three of the most controversial executions in the latter years of the death penalty."" In August 1949 he hanged John Haigh, nicknamed ""the Acid Bath Murderer"", as he had dissolved the bodies of his victims in sulphuric acid; Haigh admitted to nine murders,"
"again near the end. The show was broadcast in November 1955 with the death of Humphreys occurring a few weeks later on 20 February 1956. Travers Humphreys Sir Richard Somers Travers Christmas Humphreys (4 August 1867 – 20 February 1956) was a noted British barrister and judge who, during a sixty-year legal career, was involved in the cases of Oscar Wilde and the murderers Hawley Harvey Crippen, George Joseph Smith and John George Haigh, the 'Acid Bath Murderer', among many others. Travers Humphreys was born in Doughty Street in Bloomsbury in London, the fourth son and sixth child of solicitor"
"Andrew Kehoe Andrew Philip Kehoe (February 1, 1872 – May 18, 1927) was an American farmer and treasurer of his township school board, notable as a mass murderer for killing his wife and 43 other people (including 38 children), and injuring 58 people by setting off bombs in the Bath School disaster on May 18, 1927. He committed suicide near the school by detonating dynamite in his truck, causing an explosion which killed several other people and wounded more. He had earlier set off incendiary devices in his house and farm, destroying all the buildings, as well as killing two"
"the period. For some years, Smith's waxwork was exhibited in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussauds in London. The 1949 movie ""Obsession"" mentions Brides in the Bath George Joseph Smith George Joseph Smith (11 January 1872 – 13 August 1915) was an English serial killer and bigamist. In 1915, he was convicted and subsequently hanged for the slayings of three women, the case becoming known as the Brides in the Bath Murders. As well as being widely reported in the media, the case was significant in the history of forensic pathology and detection. It was also one of the"
"Bath Murderer"", had a chance meeting in the Goat with William McSwann, a wealthy owner of amusement arcades, for whom he had worked as a chauffeur in 1936, before spending time in prison for fraud. They met at the Goat again at about 6pm on 9 September, when they had some glasses of wine and a meal, after which Haigh enticed McSwann to his workshop nearby at 79 Gloucester Road (now the basement of a branch of Kentucky Fried Chicken), broke his skull with a pinball table leg, and dumped his body in a 40-gallon tub which he filled with"
"Lutz Reinstrom Lutz Reinstrom (born March 29, 1948 in Sassnitz) is a German serial killer known as the ""Acid Killer"". He has been in custody since September 17, 1991 and was sentenced on May 22, 1996 by the Hamburg Regional Court for the murder of two women, attempted heavy robbery coinciding with deprivation of liberty and extortionate robbery to life imprisonment followed by preventative detention. He is serving his sentence in a high-security Hamburg prison. The sadomasochistically inclined furrier had built an underground ""nuclear bunker"" on the property of his terraced house on Dompfaffenweg in Rahlstedt in 1983. In there"
"George Joseph Smith George Joseph Smith (11 January 1872 – 13 August 1915) was an English serial killer and bigamist. In 1915, he was convicted and subsequently hanged for the slayings of three women, the case becoming known as the Brides in the Bath Murders. As well as being widely reported in the media, the case was significant in the history of forensic pathology and detection. It was also one of the first cases in which similarities between connected crimes were used to prove deliberation, a technique used in subsequent prosecutions. The son of an insurance agent, George Joseph Smith"
"Bath School disaster The Bath School disaster, sometimes known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, which killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and six adults and injured at least 58 other people. Kehoe killed his wife and firebombed his farm, then detonated an explosion in the Bath Consolidated School before committing suicide by detonating a final device in his truck. Andrew Kehoe was the 55-year-old school board treasurer and was angered by increased taxes and his defeat in the Spring 1926 election for township clerk."
"Larissa Schuster Larissa Schuster (née Foreman; born January 1, 1960) is an American woman who was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2008 for committing the July 2003 murder of her estranged husband Timothy Schuster by submerging his body in hydrochloric acid. Due to the unusual manner in which she committed the murder, Larissa's case made national headlines. She has been dubbed ""the Acid Lady"" by various media outlets. For a period she was housed at Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, California. Currently she is incarcerated in Central California Women's Facility. Larissa Schuster (""née"" Foreman) was"
"by one of his victims' brother, tipped to his identity by a detective. Gilbert Paul Jordan Gilbert Paul Jordan (born Gilbert Paul Elsie on December 12, 1931 – July 7, 2006), known as the ""Boozing Barber"", was a Canadian serial killer who is believed to have committed the so-called ""alcohol murders"" in Vancouver, Canada. Jordan, a former barber, was linked to the deaths of between eight and ten women between 1965 and 1988; he was the first Canadian known to use alcohol as a murder weapon. Jordan's lengthy criminal record started in 1952 and includes convictions for rape, indecent assault,"
"Gilbert Paul Jordan Gilbert Paul Jordan (born Gilbert Paul Elsie on December 12, 1931 – July 7, 2006), known as the ""Boozing Barber"", was a Canadian serial killer who is believed to have committed the so-called ""alcohol murders"" in Vancouver, Canada. Jordan, a former barber, was linked to the deaths of between eight and ten women between 1965 and 1988; he was the first Canadian known to use alcohol as a murder weapon. Jordan's lengthy criminal record started in 1952 and includes convictions for rape, indecent assault, abduction, hit and run, drunk driving and car theft. In 1976, Jordan was"
"Terry Driver Terry Driver (born 1965), ""alias"" the Abbotsford killer, is a convicted Canadian murderer who attacked two teenage girls with a baseball bat, killed one, then taunted police in Abbotsford, British Columbia with letters and phone calls. Driver attacked two 16-year-old girls with a baseball bat in 1995. One of the girls, Misty Cockerill, attempted to fight back and ultimately survived, but with severe skull fractures. Her companion, Tanya Smith, was beaten, sexually assaulted, and thrown in a river where she drowned, although she would have died of her beating in any event. After the attack, Driver engaged in"
"in maggots, whereupon he decapitated the body, cleaned the head and placed it in the refrigerator. He later acidified Bradehoft's torso along with those of two other victims killed within the previous month. On July 22, 1991, Dahmer approached three men with an offer of $100 to accompany him to his apartment to pose for nude photographs, drink beer and simply keep him company. One of the trio, 32-year-old Tracy Edwards, agreed to accompany him to his apartment. Upon entering Dahmer's apartment, Edwards noted a foul odor and several boxes of hydrochloric acid on the floor, which Dahmer claimed to"
"robberies and rapes during a nine-month span from mid-1940 to February 1941 to Cvek's unique ""modus operandi"" of asking for a glass of water and aspirin that earned him the moniker ""The Aspirin Bandit"", and ""The Gentleman Killer"" following the Pappas murder. After his arrest on the Pappas murder charge, Cvek admitted to the rapes of 14 other women in the New York City area. The jury found him guilty of murdering Pappas on May 19, 1941, and only took 20 minutes to deliberate before sentencing him to death. He was executed on February 26, 1942, in the electric chair"
"and Secrets"" in 2012, ""Deadly Wives"" in 2013, ""How (Not) to Kill Your Husband"" in 2014, and ""It Takes A Killer"" in 2016. Larissa Schuster Larissa Schuster (née Foreman; born January 1, 1960) is an American woman who was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2008 for committing the July 2003 murder of her estranged husband Timothy Schuster by submerging his body in hydrochloric acid. Due to the unusual manner in which she committed the murder, Larissa's case made national headlines. She has been dubbed ""the Acid Lady"" by various media outlets. For a period she was housed"
"Albert Fish Hamilton Howard ""Albert"" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man. A child rapist and cannibal, he boasted that he ""had children in every state"", and at one time stated the number was about 100. However, it is not known whether he was referring to rapes or cannibalization, nor is it known if the statement was truthful. He was a suspect in at least five murders during his lifetime. Fish confessed"
"Blood Bath Blood Bath (a.k.a. Portrait in Terror and Track of the Vampire) is a 1966 American horror film, produced by Jack Hill, directed by Jack Hill and Stephanie Rothman, that stars William Campbell, Linda Saunders, Marissa Mathes, and Sid Haig. The film was released by American International Pictures on a double bill with ""Queen of Blood"". ""Blood Bath"" had a complex and troubled production history, marked by various cuts and reshoots. In 1963 Roger Corman had co-produced a Yugoslavia-made spy thriller called ""Operation: Titian"", but the film was deemed unreleasable. Corman purchased the rights to another film and assigned"
"Amy Archer-Gilligan Amy Duggan ""Sister"" Archer-Gilligan (October 1873 – April 23, 1962) was a nursing home proprietor and serial killer from Windsor, Connecticut. She murdered at least five people by poisoning them. One of her victims was her second husband, Michael Gilligan; the others were residents of her nursing home. It is possible that she was involved in more deaths. The authorities counted 48 deaths in her nursing home, the ""Archer Home for the Elderly and Infirm."" The case attracted wide publicity at the time and has been cited as an inspiration for the play ""Arsenic and Old Lace"" and"
"Murder of Kelly Anne Bates Kelly Anne Bates (18 May 1978 – 16 April 1996) was an English teenager who was murdered in Manchester at the age of 17 by her partner, James Patterson Smith (born ). She was tortured by him over a period of four weeks, including having her eyes gouged from their sockets up to three weeks before her death, before being drowned in a bathtub. The murder inquiry was headed by Detective Sergeant Joseph Monaghan of Greater Manchester Police, who said: ""I have been in the police force for 15 years and have never seen a"
"is water. Bath is the home of the 2007 Class C boys basketball state champions, and, between 1982 and 2002, was the home of the sportsman TV series, ""Fred Trost's Practical Sportsman"". Bath was platted in 1864. On May 18, 1927, in what became known as the Bath School disaster, Andrew Kehoe, a farmer and local school board member angry over losing an election for town clerk and under notice for foreclosure, killed his wife, detonated bombs in his house and farm buildings, and at the same time set off a bomb in the consolidated school. He drove to the"
"it impossible to have been killed for sexual reasons; Reinstrom had killed out of murder lust or for satisfaction of his sexual urges, but to be regarded as proven, the killing was made out at least out of greed and to cover a criminal offence. Lutz Reinstrom Lutz Reinstrom (born March 29, 1948 in Sassnitz) is a German serial killer known as the ""Acid Killer"". He has been in custody since September 17, 1991 and was sentenced on May 22, 1996 by the Hamburg Regional Court for the murder of two women, attempted heavy robbery coinciding with deprivation of liberty"
"Jim at the hotel. John George Haigh, a notorious serial killer in the 1940s known for his ""acid bath"" murders, stayed at the hotel on numerous occasions, and dined there on the day he killed one of his victims. The hotel is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a nightwatchman, Mark Hurston (or Hewton), who died by drinking poisoned wine—either planted to trap a recurring intruder to the inn, or adulterated by a guest angered at being woken by him. It has been reported that a locked broom cupboard has been found open, strange figures have been seen, and electric"
"Andrea Yates Andrea Pia Yates (née Kennedy; born July 2, 1964) is a former resident of Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. She had been suffering for some time with very severe postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. She was represented by Houston criminal defense attorney George Parnham. Chuck Rosenthal, the district attorney in Harris County, asked for the death penalty in her 2002 trial. Her case placed the M'Naghten Rules, along with the Irresistible Impulse Test, a legal test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States. She"
"The Brides in the Bath The Brides in the Bath is a 2003 Yorkshire Television film based on the life and Old Bailey trial of British serial killer and bigamist George Joseph Smith, the ""Brides in the Bath Murderer"". Martin Kemp plays the role of Smith, and Richard Griffiths plays barrister Sir Edward Marshall-Hall. The script was written by Glenn Chandler and directed by Harry Bradbeer. Set to portray coastal Weymouth, filming took place in Yorkshire locations of Bridlington, Filey and Scarborough from June to mid-July, 2003. The film focuses on the trial of George Smith and flashbacks showing how"
"Anthony Allen Shore Anthony Allen Shore (June 25, 1962 – January 18, 2018) was an American serial killer and child molester who was responsible for the slayings of one woman and three girls. He operated from 1986 to 2000, and was known as the ""Tourniquet Killer"" because of his use of a ligature with either a toothbrush or bamboo stick to tighten or loosen the ligature. The instrument was similar to a twitch, a tool used by farmers to control horses. Shore was sentenced to death in 2004, and executed by lethal injection on January 18, 2018. He married Gina"
"was Olive Durand-Deacon, 69, the wealthy widow of solicitor John Durand-Deacon and a fellow resident at the Onslow Court Hotel. Haigh by then was calling himself an engineer, and Olive mentioned an idea to him that she had for artificial fingernails. He invited her down to the Leopold Road workshop on 18 February 1949 and, once inside, he shot her in the back of the neck with the .38 calibre Webley revolver that he had stolen from Archibald Henderson, stripped her of her valuables, including a Persian lamb coat, and put her into the acid bath. Two days later, Durand-Deacon’s"
"Keith Simpson (pathologist) Cedric Keith Simpson, CBE, FRCP, FRCPath, (20 July 1907 – 21 July 1985) was an English forensic pathologist. He was Professor of Forensic Medicine in the University of London at Guy's Hospital, Lecturer in Forensic Medicine at the University of Oxford and a founder member and President of the Association of Forensic Medicine. Professor Simpson became renowned for his post-mortems on high-profile murder cases, including the 1949 Acid Bath Murders committed by John George Haigh and the murder of gangster George Cornell, who was shot dead by Ronnie Kray in 1966. He pioneered forensic dentistry, and was"
"Thomas Neill Cream Dr. Thomas Neill Cream (27 May 1850 – 15 November 1892), also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-Canadian serial killer, who claimed his first proven victims in the United States and the rest in England, and possibly others in Canada and Scotland. Cream, who poisoned his victims, was executed after his attempts to frame others for his crimes brought him to the attention of London police. Unsubstantiated rumours suggested his last words as he was being hanged were a confession that he was Jack the Ripper—even though he was supposed to be in prison at"