Word: haigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detectives soon found some interesting evidence: a piece of red plastic like that on a handbag which the missing widow carried, a ten-gallon carboy, one of several used to store sulphuric acid, and ashlike specimens of what a Home Office pathologist called "the residue of some human substance." Haigh was promptly taken into custody...
...Penknife, I Think." This week dapper John George Haigh himself walked jauntily up to the bench in a Lewes courtroom to plead "not guilty" to the charge of premeditated murder laid against him. He did not, however, deny the killings...
...counsel, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, read to the court a full statement from his client. In it Haigh explained in detail how he had killed Mrs. Durand-Deacon by shooting her in the head, "then fetched in a drinking glass and made an incision, I think with a penknife, in the side of her neck, and collected a glass of blood which I drank." In 1944 William McSwan had been disposed of in much the same way-"I hit him on the head," dictated Haigh. "I withdrew a quantity of blood and drank...
...year later, said Haigh, "I took . . . the father and mother to the same basement, disposing of them in the same way." In February 1948 he killed the Hendersons, an unidentified woman from Hammersmith, a young man in Kensington and a girl "who said her name was Mary...
...each case," Haigh added, "I had my glass of blood as before...