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177. John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murderer
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Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to who did what Now? The history podcast. That's not your history class. With me, your host, Katie Charlwood, history harlot and reader of books. And I just received a Christmas card. It's like almost the end of January, and I got a Christmas card from Reno, Nevada. I'm. I'm so happy. 1. I love cards and letters. I love snail mail. Okay, so not only that I have that, but in the card there is a Christmas, like, cookie tray bake recipe which is going in the recipe book and shall be tried out next year. I mean, in fairness, you can make Christmas cookies at any time of year if you want to. You are not beholden to the seasons, let alone the festive period. Like, you can eat an ice cream in winter, you can have a fruit salad in March. It doesn't matter, right? You can eat what you want, when you want, just not right before swimming because apparently that's not good for you. Although I think they debunked that, but I don't know. So I've got a letter and these, like, recipes, a recipe, and then I've also got like, these horror themed stickers that are like, so I want to see Gen X Millennial. And I am so happy. They are going to go on my new laptop, which I'm not recording on yet, but I will be once I finally take it out of the box. Oh, it has been, it has been a fun weekend. And by fun, I mean I got my arse absolutely trashed at street golf by Bebe, my daughter. She absolutely like 2,000 points. She beat me by 2,000 points. And that was with me getting a hole in one. Right, that shows you just like how much better than me she is at like so many things. And it was a bit of a tough one because my son had like a birthday party he was supposed to go to, but then he got sent home from school with a fever. So it was like 39 point something fever, Celsius, it was like reaching, but 101, 102, like Fahrenheit. So like around about there it was quite high. And so my mum came over and stayed up with him and you know, like, and he wakes her up at 3 o' clock in the morning, like with a thermometer, like shoving it in her face, going, temp me. Just because he was like, he was so determined to get to this party. He just like willed the fever out of him. He was like, no, I'm going to this party. So that was a good time. So when he was at a party, my daughter and I went and played some golf. And yeah, that's, that's probably my exciting news. I'm trying not to complain so much, as she says. And then we'll probably make a podcast just complaining about stuff. But anyway, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, katie, quit your jibber jabber. In fact, me, in fact, you. I will. But first we've got to get our source on. Our sources are Frenzy, Heath, Haig and Christie by Neil Root. The Murders of the Black Museum, 1870-1970 by Gordon Honeycomb. Chronicle of 20th Century Murder by Brian Lane Haig. The Mind of a Murderer by Arthur J. Le Byrne. We also have articles, contemporary articles from the Times, the New York Times and the Daily Mirror. Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Then let's begin. As we continue on our journey of 1940s crime, we have left Southeast Asia and have found our way onto an island that has a remarkable body count. Especially when you consider just how small it is. Like, it is one of those, like, real life instances of size. Doesn't matter. Now, there have been many, and I do mean many, infamous killers on and from the island of Britain. And, and that's like, before we even include the instigators of colonial atrocities. But yes, this tale is of someone who, shockingly enough, I've had so many requests to cover this since I started talking about, like, 1940s crime, like, ever. I've had emails and messages and DMs, people going, are you gonna. You gonna talk about the Acid Bath Murderer? Are you gonna talk about the Acid Bath Murderer? Well. Oh, yes, you're welcome. I am gonna talk about John George Haigh, most commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, even though he never used a bath to our knowledge. Now, I do think I briefly mentioned him, like, way back when I did the Brides and the Bath Murders, the perpetrator of which was another man with three names, George Joseph Smith. That was episode 59. The sound quality is not great. If you don't want to listen to someone who sounds like they're talking in a tin can in a bathroom, you can just skip it. It's fine. But it is there. So let's get talking about John George Haig. He was born on 24th July, 1909 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, to John Robert Haig, an engineer, and Emily Hudson, a homemaker. I mean, to my knowledge, she's a homemaker, a housewife, because I could not find any other information on her. I couldn't find anything, like, listed as a domestic or anything. So going to assume, given the lack of other information and the time period, I'm gonna stick with this. I feel fairly comfortable, like, with this. So the Haggs, they're members of the Plymouth Brethren, a religious sect, cult in Red Riding of Yorkshire. So the Plymouth Brethren are this purist Protestant sect that started around the 1820s in Dublin, of all places, right, as an offshoot of. Of Anglicanism. Now, here's the thing, as Protestant branches go, Anglicanism is like Catholicism light. It's probably the closest out of all of the Protestant religions to Roman Catholicism. I'm just putting it out there, okay? Like, it's. It's just like a step to the side. They just took out the statues and were like, that's fine. So, like the Presbyterians, the Plymouth Brethren were dual. Unlike the Presbyterians, they believed in nuda scriptura, basically, that they don't have any, like, clerics, no ministers, no priests, no vicars, and that the Bible was the only authority regarding church doctrine and practice and was not to be interpreted by clerics. So, I mean, that's very much. You need to take the Bible literally, which is kind of difficult when the Bible contradicts itself in several places. And like, like the. Here's the thing, like, the Christian Bible is like the Torah with dlc. So there's just like this turn on all of these original practices. And so it's basically like the New Testament is saying, don't do this stuff like the Old Testament did. And yet, near enough, every Christian religion is like, let's follow the Old Testament. Like, did you read the same book? I'm not. You know what? No. Not going to get into it. That was a sidebar that we did not need. Or did we? Hey, Kitty, did you. I almost studied theology. Like, I. That was one of my, my considerations when I was first applying for like, third level education. Sidebar is that I originally wanted to go and do like, theology, anthropology. And then there was something else, I think I. I was like, I'm still tempted to go and do criminology because I think it'd be very interesting and I would only be doing it for fun. Like, I'd be doing it just to get. Gain that interest for my own greedy, gluttonous learning. Like, that's. That's it. And I really wanted to do that, which is very funny. When I was chatting to Dr. Esme Louise James, we were chatting about how like, she, like, almost went into sort of religion, like religious sort of history as well, which is. Or even religious literature. Whatever it was, it was like something religion based. And I was like, well, that's a funny little parallel there. But anyway, I love her. If you don't watch her stuff, you should do that because she is amazing and she knows her shit. And also her mum's really cool. I love her mum. So back to the Hagues. So John George Haig's parents were late in parents. Like, they got married late and he was the only, you know, product of their marriage. He was the only child they had. And his upbringing was strict. No casual entertainment was allowed in any capacity. So no carnivals, no music, no shows, no music halls, no newspapers or magazines. Only stories from the Bible were allowed. My, what a strict and unpleasant upbringing. I'm sure there will be no ramifications for this at any later point in this podcast episode about 1940s crime. Anywho, as a result of this ultra conservative upbringing, John George Haig suffered recurring religious nightmares throughout his childhood. It's not all bad, though. He learned the piano, so he's quite young. He starts, you know, hitting those ivories and turns out he's rather proficient. Like, he's a really good pianist and he's like, playing like, classical composers. All the, all the stuff that people say, no, it's classic. It's definitely Great. And as if Mozart wasn't always writing just, just dick jokes and arse licking jokes in all of his music anyway. Not all of it, but like some of it. And also, also it's fun. I don't care. Anyway, so John here, he won a scholarship to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, and then another scholarship to Wakefield Cathedral, becoming a choir boy in the process. Oh, sweet irony. So when he's at school, he like really focused on the subjects that he was interested in. If he liked it, he would apply himself. If he didn't like it or he wasn't that interested in it, he just wouldn't bother. And like, he was also, this is gonna shock you, a bit of a bully. Like, he would threaten classmates and because of who his parents were, like his mum thought that they were better than everybody else and his dad was just this incredibly staunch, strict man that, you know, the teachers just didn't want to approach them. And then like the parents of other children just did not want to approach them. They were like, let's, let's not, let's just power through. So after he leaves school, he was working as an apprentice at a motor engineer company, Shell Mechs Limited. He's there for what, like three years altogether. So like throughout his teens he's working there. And John, he had a thing for cars. And you know, just like the dudes on the Internet who are like, where's your Lambo? He sees cars as a status symbol. He likes cars and he wants cars now typically in the position that he's in that he's working in and the wage that he is earning, given locale, again his age and the average working wage at the time, how he would get a car, let alone three cars, is just a little bit surprising and possibly concerning. But what exactly is his job at Shell Tech Limited? Well, I'm glad you asked because I'll tell you. So he would post information for customers on the cars that were on sale, you know, at this motor engineering company. So like, so he's like doing this for a few years. You know, he's basically putting out ad copy. Here's the information about the car. Buy the car. Ta da. And he's there for a good few years and he's learning lots about the motor trade. Unfortunately, when he's 21, he is fired from that job because he is suspected of stealing a cash box. So he just continues working away in other places. He ends up selling car insurance within years along with like some other side hustles, which is how he was able to afford those one, two, three or more cars he was flashing about in. And he becomes a dab hand at forging signatures. He's also doing some like scams with stocks and mutual funds. And on top of that he's selling cars that do not exist. And obviously this is a cash business so he would just take the money and pocket it. And he's forging documents and manages to acquire around £500 from the Mercantile Union Guarantee Company. That's right, a choir. And he is spending this money by the way. He's dressing in tailored suits, he's flashing his money out in the pubs, he is driving these swanky cars, he is showing off, right? So he looks like he is a big high roller, he is earning money, he is jazz, you know, the bee's knees. But it wasn't long before the con man got himself a wife. So on the 6th of July 1934 he marries 23 year old Beatrice Hammer who is known as Betty. And she is beautiful, absolutely stunning, but she is dirt poor. And he's flashing the cash. So he seems like he's a good option, like he's got money, he is a stable, you know, a stable husband to have. Spoiler alert, he was not so. Because here's the thing about John, he's not a very good husband. And a few months after they got married, John was arrested. Now Betty visits him and she tries to get him to tell her like what's going on. And he tells her it's nothing, don't worry about it. Now here's the thing. He and his two accomplices tried to defraud Motor Credit Services limited and they were caught because of a spelling mistake on a form. So Haig and his accomplices were charged and sentenced and he receives a 15 month sentence in November 1934. Unfortunately for Betty, she's pregnant. Her husband and father of her baby is in prison. Like who's going to provide for her and baby like John is in prison. Like it starts at 15 months but like what if he's in longer? Like he's already away for over a year and it could be longer if anything happens in there or he has bad behavior or it's like such a deal for her and there's no support coming from in laws or you know, she doesn't seem to have a family who can support her in this. Her family have no money, no way to support her and she's got radio silence from John. And so being very pregnant and having zero options, Betty decides fuck this for a game of soldiers. And after giving birth, makes the decision to put her daughter up for adoption, thinking that this is the best and safest option for her baby and for everyone involved. So John's parents, like, they write to him, like, while he's locked up. And his dad's letters are very. This is going to shock you. Religious in nature. And from prison, he writes back and he proclaims that he's sorry for, you know, committing fraud. And he's repenting. Like, he writes that he's going to redeem himself when he finally gets the chance. Now, he's also weirdly, very boastful in his letters about how well he's doing in prison. Like, he's talking about how he's upskilling. He's, like, doing tailoring. He's making trousers, pajamas, jackets. Like he's fucking upskilling here, right? And by December 1935, John is released from prison early for good behavior. And let's not forget that the Second World War had started several months earlier, which was probably a deciding factor in this. Now, when he gets out, his parents, they cut ties with him as they discover that their grandchild has been put up for adoption and his wife is gone, which does not align with their conservative Christian values. But John George Haig wasn't going to let something like being disowned so stop him from making money. So with his newfound knowledge about attire, he opens up a dry cleaning business with Major Plackett, who was his lawyer when he was charged with fraud. So this all sounds very above board. Now, unfortunately, Major Plackett dies in a car accident. And the Major's widow decided that she was just gonna liquidate her half of the business. So what she inherited from her late husband. And here's the thing. If she gets rid of her half of the business, that would mean that John George Haig would have to do all the work himself. So anyway, he decided that he, too, was going to liquidate his half of the business. So John, at this point, he needed money because, well, he seems like he has money, but he really doesn't. And he thinks, where can I go? He goes full Dick Whittington and heads to London, where the streets are lined with gold. Sorry, what was that? Mould. So he moves to London in 1936 and gets a job as a chauffeur to William Donald mcspawn, who takes a liking to him. Now, it's not surprising that people like this man because he's a con man. And part of their whole Shtick is to be charming. They charm to disarm. Like it's what they do. Like, they want you to like them so that you won't think that they're gonna do the bad thing to you. Like, that's how that work. So he's working as a chauffeur and he's not only hired by him, but he also hangs out with him after work. So they're just like driving about and then they're just like going to the pub after. And McSwan, he is well off. Well, well off enough to afford a personal driver. And he has, like an amusement business, right at this point. That's where his, like, funding's coming from. So this is like an amusement arcade. They're sort of. You'd see them now more along sort of seaside coastal towns. So you'd have things like. Like, I think nowadays it would be like the claw machine. So at this point he had pen tables. A coconut shy, which is a love of coconut shy. And not just so I can walk around and go, I've got a lovely bunch of cocoanuts, said Barr. There they are standing in a row, Big one, small one, some as big as your bed. You give them a twist, a flick of the wrist is what the showman said. And so that's enough now as it. There stands me wife, the idol of me life, singing Roly poly ball, a penny a pinch. Anyway, so amusement arcades, so coconut shy. So you gotta, like, try and knock the coconuts off. All the jazz, right? All that jazz. And so that's where his, his money's from. And Haig, he's, like, giving him ideas about how to get more patrons into his business. And, you know, they all get along. He meets the mixed one parents, and they just get quite close. So William Donald McSwan, like, even though this guy is his employee, he sees him as a friend, right? Now, that's just something to keep in mind now while this is happening. John George Haig pretended to be a solicitor under aliases, of course. He's not stupid. She says he visited the Public Companies Registry so that he could collect a list of shareholders and company directors to contact. Right. Like he's doing his research, which you should appreciate. Like, putting the effort. Imagine if he went into, like, legitimate business. Like, he would have done quite well, but this was more fun for him and involved surprisingly less cocaine than someone would think, especially for the era. So, as William Cato Adamson, a solicitor with offices in Guildford, Surrey, Hastings, Sussex and London, he sold fraudulent stock at below market rates, claiming that they were from the estates of his deceased clients. Now this is like a buyer's dream, because this is like boiler room scenario, like Wall street boiler room. All that jazz. Now some people catch on quickly that these deals are too good to be true, because you know what? Like, if it's too good to be true, then it possibly is. So they just don't respond. Others, though, are just like, yes, I would love to have this estate, this land, this is mine. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. Because you'd be surprised or maybe you wouldn't. Just like how powerful greed can be, you know. Now he gets caught and you're kinda gonna see history repeating here a wee bit by another spelling mistake because he misspelled Guildford. He spelled it like Guildford, so without the D, like my dating life. So he was really, really sneaky with it. Like proper sleek it. He would sign his name as like other members of an office. So just like lower level personnel trying to make it seem as though he was like some lowly worker bee, you know, as opposed to the head honcho. And the fact that he gets caught because of a spelling mistake and somebody's like, no, no solicitor would misspell the town that he says his business is in. And so in November 1937, he's charged with fraud again and is convicted to serve four years in prison. Like, he had absolutely no chance of winning this case. The evidence was huge and the judge was calling him out, like actually just tearing him apart for trying to like, pull the wool over his eyes. And so he just gets completely chastised and then he goes to prison and gets an early release because he applies for one and gets out in August 1940. Now, lest we forget, the Second World War is raging at this point. So early release was fairly common because, you know, the government needed bodies. And he manages to not enlist and instead continues stealing. So he's nicking curtains, bunk beds, and even kitchen utensils. Like he's going full on sticky finger decorating. And he's back in Prison on June 11, 1941, and he's back writing to his parents, full of remorse and repenting. This time he's serving a 21 month sentence, his third time in prison. And it's here that he starts experimenting.
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Katie Charlwood
John George Haig is at Lincoln Prison and he starts experimenting with field mice. Not. Not in that way, to my knowledge. Not in that way. So by experimenting, feel I should like confirm here? I mean, he's dissolving field mice in sulfuric acid. Like he's seeing how long it takes for the acid to dissolve the field mouse. But for why. So in these experiments he discovered that it takes about half an hour to dissolve the mouse. He estimated that by using, I don't know what, algebra, ratios, math. By using math that by comparing the weight of a mouse to a human that he could guess just how long it would take for a human body to dissolve. Everybody needs a hobby, right? Right. Kissy comes to the realization in prison that it is much more difficult to get caught when there's no one to tattle on you. That's right. No victim left alive means there's no one to rat on you. This was not intentionally a rodent pun, but here we are. So he uses sulfuric acid inspired by a Greek born French murderer, Georges Alexandre Surratt, who did the same thing. Which is wild because you know, I'm completely ignoring the fact that the only reason he knows who Seurat was was because Seurat was caught convicted of murdering two people and dissolving their bodies in acid before being executed by Guillotine on 10 April 1934. Like, is that the outcome you want, Johnny boy? Is it? Either way, he decides his best course of action is to practice dissolving mammals in sulfuric acid. Now, sulfuric acid is One of, if not the most used chemical in the world. Like it's used in almost all industries and it's colorless and odorless. It's used widely in the manufacture of like fertilizers and the making of paints, dyes and drugs. It's everywhere. So he would collect sulfuric acid and use the workshop in the prison. Because he was allowed to use the workshop in the prison. I mean he's like fraud. They're all like, it's fraud, it's not like murder. And so they're like, hey, it's okay for you to use the workshop and the tools. So he would collect the sulfuric acid, he'd use the workshop and he'd pay prisoners to collect field mice for him. And he'd pay them with tobacco that his parents sent him because they were like, oh, you're in prison, here, have tobacco. You need a smoke, son. So he's going all Dexter's laboratory in the Lincoln Prison tin shop. So he practices in the Lincoln Prison tin shop, testing his dissolving times and the like. And he applies for an early release. And you know what, they give it to him. And so he's released in September 1943. So far this man has never served a full sentence. He's always been let out early, then gone and committed another crime. I think after the second one, you think maybe not, maybe not. So he's released in September 1943 and he then lives and is employed by Alan Stevens. So he's lodging there and working there. And who else is living in this abode? Will. Alan's wife evelyn and their 15 year old daughter Barbara. So John George Haig starts, and I'm going to use this word loosely, a relationship with Barbara. She's 15 and he is 36 years old. And apart from the fact that she's more than half his age, that's his boss's daughter. Right. And the boss who he also happened to live with. Okay. Mr. And Mrs. Stevens have an issue with this relationship. Not because they think this 30 something old man is grooming their teenage daughter? No, no, they like him. They think he's the cat's pajamas. They think that she's too immature for him. Is she? Mr. And Mrs. Stevens, is your 15 year old daughter too amateur for the nearly 14 year old man? Perhaps. I'd say maybe, maybe just. But I feel like you could be looking at this through just a bit, bit of a blurred perspective here. In August the following year, Haig finally finds what he's been looking for. Not an Age appropriate woman, but instead three basement rooms to rent in a building on Gloucester Road. He negotiates the price like he haggles, obviously, and then moves in. On 6 September 1944, on 7 September, the very next day, he places an order of 20 gallons of sulfuric acid. But that's not all. He also orders six pounds of muriatic acid, which is more famously known as hydrochloric acid. But like, I mean it's basically not as pure. It's like an impure form of hydrochloric acid. It is incredibly corrosive even when diluted. So it has a lot of uses, like in the manufacturing of polyvinyl chloride, also known as pvc, also known as vegan leather. So pvc, we just used to call it PVC back in the 2000s, in the millennium, back in the olden days, somebody somewhere had some PVC trousers. Sometimes they'd go so far as to call it pleather. We knew it was plastic. Sidebar I'm going to tell you a story about me and my pleather trousers that I wore to her funeral. In my defence, it was bought as one of my funeral outfits. Sidebar I used to go to a lot of funerals. Like a lot of funerals. People around me kept dying. I will not be blamed for it. Heart attacks are common these days, so a lot of grandparents died in quick succession. And there has been a lot of death in my family since I was quite young. So I've grown up around death. And there was always a section in my wardrobe like dedicated for funerals. Right? To this day I have at least three separate funeral appropriate outfits for basically any or most, most types of funerals. Like I am ready to go, right? I also have the perfect funeral bag. Like I have everything anybody will need. I have a similar bag for weddings. It they both contain tissues like, and mints. Anyway, that's not the point. I have fidget toys for children, the whole shebang. I got you covered, like. But anyway, back to the funeral. We get to the funeral. My brother and my dad are both wearing ankle length black leather coats like they've just stepped out of the fucking matrix. My oldest brother, he is wearing a three quarter length black leather jacket. I am wearing my PVC trousers and a black and camel cashmere jumper. The camel was a trim. Okay. It was mainly black. So we're at the crematorium actually. So it's like a funeral service at it and you know, there's still prayers and stuff. So we have to like sit on the Pew and kneel down and all this kind of stuff. And every time I moved, my clothes squeaked. And every time my brother moved, his clothes squeaked. So it's like, oh, now we pray. And it was continuous all the way through this funeral. And it goes back, and it gets to the point where I just start laughing so hard that my brother shoves my face right into his shoulder. Bear in mind, I'm 12 at this point.
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I'm 11 at this point. And he's just like, she's really sad, by the way. She's really sad because I'm shaking with. With my whole body. And he's just like, oh, bladder. The teals, the teals. And then at the very end of the funeral, it kept playing over and over again. Time to say goodbye. But it kept playing on a loop. And that just set me off again because I was like, when we. Saying goodbye, by the way, because the coffin's still sitting there like it was if stuff was broken. Anyway, anyway, funerals always at many of them. So PVC plastic that looks like leather. And muriatic acid, hydrochloric acid. They're also used in steel production, in cleaning tiles, and it's even used in balancing the PH in your pool, if you have a pool. I don't have a pool because I have Ireland, where it rains most of the time. If I want to pool, I'll just dig a hole in the garden. Mixing muriatic acid and sulfuric acid creates the joker. No, it creates a corrosive superacid, like muriatic acid can dissolve iron. Right. And there's a lot of safety precautions you have to take with that. And so he orders buckets and buckets of acid, and it's delivered the very same day. How efficient. Then one night in the Goat Pub in Kensington, London, who does he bump into but his old chum, former employer, or William? Donald McSwan. He meets with McSwan's parents, Donald and Amy, again. And everyone has a swell time. The end. Please. In the immortal words of Cher Horowitz, as if. As if just by existing, John feels like William is rubbing his success in his face. He just couldn't have that. There is nothing more dangerous than a man with wounded pride, regardless of whether the slight is imagined or not. A couple of days after he sets up his Hindenburg basement, he invites his old buddy William over. And John crosses him over the head with either a table leg or. Or a piece of pipe. He can't quite remember Which. And William McSwan takes about five minutes to die. He's gone over there to hang out with someone he thought was his friend, only to be killed by him. Because William had money. And at this point, he's working with his parents, who are landlords in London. So he would collect rent from all of the flats or apartments around London and make a pretty penny. Like, he'd be collecting all this money for his parents, and then he would earn from that. And he was doing very well for himself in this scenario. And of course, John is jealous. He wants that money without, you know, actually having to go and earn it. After bonking William McSwan on the head and watching him die, he strips him of all of his valuables and puts him in a drum that he fills with 40 to 50 gallons of sulfuric acid. So he is, like, kitted out at this point. He's got rubber boots, he's got gloves, he's got a big butcher's apron on, and he's using a bucket to fill up the drum with acid. And the fumes are. They're getting to him. And so he has to keep running outside, like, up the basement steps and outside for air. Right? Now, you've gone to all this effort. You've got boots, you've got gloves, you've got your massive leather butcher's apron. And at no point during this did you consider maybe something for the gas, right? So hydrochloric acid is. It's London in 1944. Owning a gas mask is, like, the least suspicious thing you could do at this point, right? No one's gonna be like, oh, why has he got a gas mask? It's London in 1944. After John George Haig decides that his friend should be liquefied, he realizes that it's not William that has the money. It's his parents. In a shocking and unprecedented turn of events that no one could have predicted, William McSwan's body didn't dissolve in 30 minutes like the mice did. Deciding that the corpse needs some more time to stew, Haig leaves and comes back two days later and discovers that his former friend's body was now sort of sludge. Luckily for Haig, the basement room had a big old drain in it. Well, it's actually a manhole, like in the Sandra that's basement. Well, not in the center. It's in the basement. I'm not entirely sure if it's in the center of it, but it's in the basement. And so he decides to just pour the corpse goo down the drain. That led to the precursor to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The adult suffrage salamanders. Adult suffrage salamanders. Adult suffrage salamanders. Adult suffrage salamanders. Let him vote or you choke. Suffrage power. So he goes to Donald and Amy McSwan and is like, William's left to avoid conscription. Like, he forges documents to make it look like he's left the country. Well, that he's gone to Scotland. As if the island, the entire island and country technically of Great Britain, because Great Britain is country, but Scotland and England and Wales are also countries. Let's not. Let's not get into geography because it's too much right now. But he's up in Scotland, allegedly. He's not. He's in a drain. And so John's like, you know, he's escaped. He doesn't want to join the war. And his parents are like, the war is like getting close to the end. Like, we're reading the papers, it feels like a bit sus. But then they're getting postcards and all this stuff. Like, basically he's doing all this work to make it seem like William's still alive. And he does this all the way through to July 1945. So September 1944 to July 1945. So that's after the war is over. Okay? He continues this ruse. Meanwhile, during this time, like, he is talented Mr. Ripley, ing his way into everyone's lives. And with William away, who is going to collect the rent from all of the McSwan properties? Oh, everyone's dear friend, John George Haigh. So he is out collecting all the rent from these tenancies from all these properties all across the city of London. And also, I'm assuming outer, maybe outer London. I'm not entirely sure of exactly where the barrier of their properties ended. So he's doing this for them and he is making money. But of course, he wants more. Just full on channeling his inner Veruca Salt. He's like, I want a feast. I want a bean feast. Cream buns and donuts and fruitcake with no nuts. So good you could go nuts. Like, he is just, gimme, gimme, gimme. And so he's ready for the next stage of his cruel and vicious plan. He tells Donald that William has returned and he's hiding in his basement, which, in fairness, is totally reasonable when you consider the fact that the idea is that he has fled the country in order to not can be conscripted to not join the army, which is, you know, breaking the law. And so he's like, he's a wanted man, he's hiding in my basement. You've got to come see him. And when Donald goes to the basement to reunite with a son that he hasn't seen in a year, he comes up behind him, clashes him on the back of the head, and then bludgeons him to death. And he repeats the same gambit with Amy, lures her to the basement and kills her. Now, when I was writing this out sidebar. I know too many sidebars, Katie. I know, but I was writing this out and all I kept thinking throughout this whole part, I was like, he's just luring them into this basement. And through my head, I just kept thinking of funny bones. So, like, I don't know if you'll have it in your countries, but there was a children's TV show about a family of skeletons, a daddy skeleton, a boy skeleton, and a little dog skeleton, too. And so the intro would start and it would be like, in a dark, dark street, there's a dark, dark house. In a dark, dark house, there's a dark, dark basement. In the dark, dark basement, three skeletons live. And there was that. And that's just. It kept playing over my head. I kept seeing flashes of funny bones just over and over, which kind of shows you my macabre childhood. Anywho, he puts their bodies in a drum each. And bodies are heavy. And there is, like, no information pertaining to dismemberment. Like, it doesn't come up at all. Like, there is no discussion of dismemberment. There's no consideration of it. Like, it doesn't come up anywhere. He simply just lugs these bodies into the drums. And if you've ever had to lift a dead weight, like anyone who's fainted or collapsed, or a kid that just does not want to be picked up, that's heavy. Now, imagine that's a grown person. Like, that is difficult to do. But he doesn't dismember the bodies for, like, easy packaging into these drums. He just chucks them in. I mean, I'm assuming it's a bit more effort than that. I would assume it's a bit more effort than that. But he doesn't spend a lot of time actually, like, dealing with, like, blood and gore. Like, it's not laborious or anything. That seems like, you know, too much hard work and like, he's killing for convenience. Like, that's what he's doing. And on the 6th of July, 1945, he left his basement workshop for pastures knew. But before he did that, he made sure to pour the remaining McSwan sludge down his drain. And with the landlords out of the picture, John George Haig was being his usual flashy, showboating self, always splashing the cash, acting the jennet. And between selling off assets and collecting rent, he made about £5,000, which in today's money is about £271,818 and 20 pence. So he also makes like another three grand, like, over the course of the next few years by cashing their pension cheques. And if you were thinking, that's enough, he's doing a lot of bad things, there's more. He's also cashing in Donald and Amy McSwan's pension cheques. So he is raking in even more cash. But it is never enough. He is just fluttering at a way, he's gambling, he's staying in expensive hotels, he's eating in high end restaurants and drinking in high class bars. And he always wants more. Like, this boy puts the glut in gluttony. That same year, he meets the managing director of Hursley Products Limited in Crawley, Edward Jones. So, like, this was an engineering and tool making business and they have a deal that in exchange for running errands for Jones, he gets access to this storeroom. Now, this storeroom, it's in a construction yard. There's like, there's like rubble all around and it's just this, like one room. Unfortunately, this storeroom did not have a manhole or drain or like his previous murder basement did. But he's like, yeah, that'll do. And he just needs to make more money the only way he knows how. Fraud and murder. This brings us to the Hendersons. Dr. Archibald and his wife Rosalie, who goes by Rose. So the pair had previously been married to, like, other people. Rose had divorced German inventor Rudolf Aron in 1937, ten years prior. And, well, Archibald's wife had died. And you wouldn't be blamed for thinking, well, that's serendipitous, but, yeah, Archie and Rosie had been having an affair for years and they got married after his previous wife became ill and died. What a surprise. The doctor's wife is dead and now he could marry his mistress. How convenient. And these two, they enjoyed the high life, partying, spending money hand over fist, and their bank account was overdrawn. And because they're just constantly in need of more funds, they decided to sell a house that they had in 1947. And they're selling this house for like, eight grand. And they put an ad in the paper. And who shows up but John George Haig. He's really interested in buying this house. And, like, they're selling it for like, eight, nine grand tops. And he. He shows up and he's like. Like, he tells Rose that the house is worth more. Let me pay you two grand extra for it. So instead of eight grand, he wants to give them ten grand. And he ends up, like, weaseling his way into their lives. And he's showing great interest in buying this house. And Rose tells her brother, and his brother's like, he wants to pay you £2,000 more for this house that you've said is less. That's weird. That's suspicious. And Rose is like, no, it's not. No, it's not. He's just, like, knowing how much things are worth. Okay, Rose. So he ends up charming his way into the Henderson's life. He's like. And he's even, like, playing piano at, like, parties they're having. And at one point, they're staying in this flat, and they're staying in this flat, and they get this housewarming party going and. And they invite him over, you know, so that he can wow all their guests with his pianoforte. And he does. Now, at this house warming, he pulls Dr. Henderson's revolver. It is a.30 caliber Webley. And he pockets it for use later.
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Katie Charlwood
So by now, John George Haig had moved himself into the Onslow Court Hotel in South Kensington. Which is posh, right? It's a posh area of London. It's well to do. There's a lot of higher class folk in there. And he is surrounding himself, you know, with people who have money, maybe some titles, you know, just enough class to make him seem more respectable. Because if he's staying in, you know, this good hotel, then clearly he can afford to stay there. Meanwhile, he's out partying, flashing his cash, loving the best life, just being an absolute bloody chad. And he's just hanging out with the Hendersons and they are party people, so they're hanging out and they're going to parties together. And here's the thing as well, John is spending considerably more time with Rose than he is the Doctor. And they're staying in this hotel in Brighton. Like they're just down to the seaside, they're having a good time. And on 12 February 1948, he drives Archibald out to his workshop storeroom in Crawley, says he's got something to show him. And, well, I mean, he does. It's the barrel of his own gun. Not the pointy bit, I mean, but also the pointy bit. It's not officially called the pointy bit. It is the barrel of the gun. It's the shooty out bit. The pointy. Anyway, he shoots Dr. Archibald Henderson in the head and dumps him into a drum with sulfuric acid. Next he goes back and gets Rose Henderson saying that the doctor had fallen ill and, you know, she needs to come right away. And so she suffers the same fate as her husband. Anything valuable they had on their person like that was gone. He took that with him. He goes back to the hotel room, clears it of all the valuables and then pays the hotel bill and just gets the haircut of Dodge. Like, he even takes, like, one of Rose's, like, really nice dresses and gives it to his girlfriend, Barbara Stevens, right? He gives her the gown of the woman he murdered. He forged their signatures and sold off, you know, their assets for about £8,000. So you're talking like, 400 grand in today's money. He did, however, keep their car and their dog. Like, he'd grown fond of the dog. He's like, you're staying with me now. So he takes them with him. And the Hendersons, well, they're party people and they have been known every now and again to skip a bill and to just go off and do their own thing. And for the most part, they're not hugely missed, like, just because of the circles they ran in. And they were often just out and about, except Rose's brother is like, where are they? They're missing. And he's like, we need to report them missing. We get to get what's going on here. And ha tells him that they're not missing, they're in South Africa. And they fled because Dr. Archibald Henderson was performing illegal abortions, because all abortions at this point were illegal. So this is the whole idea that they've been doing this and they've had to leave the country. And he uses this as a way to just kind of just like William Donald McSwan, he's like, oh, he's off in Scotland to avoid conscription. Like, there's that little bit of threat, there's that sort of, oh, it's for their safety, they need to leave scenario. Like, he's building this idea of, like, they have done something wrong, that his victims have committed a crime and that's why you can't find them. It's around about this time that an unfortunate accident happened to one of his cars. So he claims it was stolen, right? And then it is discovered smashed at the bottom of a cliff with a body nearby, right? The body isn't identified, it's just another John Doe. But there's his crashed car. Now, he had told Barbara, you know, about this car, and he brought her to the cliff, showed her it, and then the car ends up being there and she starts getting, like, a little bit wigged out by this. She's like, am I, like, she thinks, could this have been her? Could she have been that body? Like, you know, the seeds of doubt are starting to be sown. But he does this and he claims the insurance on the Stolen car. Meanwhile, he is staying at the Onslow Court Hotel in South Kensington. It's a posh place and he's not really the typical clientele. I mean, it's sort of odd to be there to begin with, because this hotel, most of the guests are widows. So, yeah, a lot of wealthy widows are staying in this hotel, just living their lives. One such lady was Henrietta Olivia Roberta Duvant Deacon. Now, she just went by Olive. So her husband, a military hero, had died 10 years earlier and she had moved into the hotel four years later. So, like, four years after the death of her husband, she'd moved into the Onslow Court Hotel. Now, some women who were staying there, they had lost their homes, like in the Blitz and things like that, but they could afford to just move in and stay at this hotel for as long as they liked, right? Olive was 69 years old and punctual to a T. She was never late with a bell. She stuck to her routine and she was always considerate and compassionate to others, which even for a lady of her standing, like, from being that little bit higher class, from being wealthy, you know, she was always offering a helping hand when it was needed. Now, she's also always draped in finery, expensive jewellery and clothes. She's got furs, diamonds, the lot. Like, she's pretty decent for a high society lady, in fairness. And you can tell that she's well to do by the way she carries herself and. And buy her just, like, very clearly rich attire. So Haig, he's at the hotel and he's being flashy, a charmer, suave, some might say. And some women, like, some residents, they see right through him, right? They see right through his bullshit. Others, not so much. Like, some people just see him as, like, he's just some dude, it's fine. And so Olive starts chatting to him because she thinks he's a businessman who can help her out with her invention. False nails. He tells her that he can improve her idea and sell it and that he's got a prototype at his workshop in Crawley. So, like, they've been chatting for a while. There's been, like, a rapport building, and he's like, yeah, let me show you this. Because, like, he's not flirting with her, he's not acting out with her. He's just, you know, oh, a business proposition. Let's do this. So on the 18th of February, 1949, he drives her to the storeroom and, like, it's on a construction yard in Crawley and this is a fancy lady decked out with fuzzy and heels. Like if you're ever gonna notice somebody at a construction yard, it's gonna be the lady and the diamonds and the fur. Okay, I feel like we're gonna notice that. So he tells her to go into the storeroom. He's right behind her. So as she steps in, he walks behind her and shoots her in the back of the head. And yes, with Dr. Archibald Henderson's revolver, he strips her of her finery, of her valuables, and then puts her in a drum full of acid. He does take the fur coat with him. He does take that, but, you know, it's dirty, there's a bit of blood, some dust, probably some brain matter on it. And so he needs to get it cleaned and if he wants to flog it or, you know, if he wants to give it to his girlfriend. Now, with Haig's previous victims, I mean, they're all crimes of convenience, right? They're all to suit him. It's not for a love of killing, it's for greed, it's for money. And he picks people, typically who don't have a huge social circle. People who it wouldn't be surprising if, you know, they weren't around or seen on the daily, you know, and that's probably his biggest mistake here. One of there's a lot of mistakes here. It's just one fuck up after another at this point. So the very next morning, when the prompt and punctual Widow Durand Deacon doesn't show up for breakfast, it's noticed.
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All have ever intended to miss a meal, especially something like breakfast or like a lunch with the ladies, like she would get that information to them beforehand. Like that is something she did. She was very up on her etiquette and so people are like a bit weird that she's not there. Like it's odd not to see her and for no one to know why she's not there. And it's so noticeable that John George Haig even asks Constance Lane, another resident in the hotel, if she has seen Olive. Now Constance, who's also a 69 year old widow, fucking hated John George Haigh. She thought he was a sneaky, sleek, conniving weasel. And so like her hackles are up and she goes to investigate and she sees that Olive's bed hasn't been slept in. So feeling very suspicious, she reports her disappearance to the police. Now, being a high class lady, the widow of a military hero, and staying in a prominent hotel in London, the police actually investigate. They talk to the ladies who would have met Olive for tea. They chat to the owner and the staff of the hotel, and they even look into the guests. So it's not long before they discover that Haig was in arrears up until a few days prior. Like, the owner starts telling them that, you know, she was always very prompt. She always paid everything, like, then and there. She never had a debt. And John, on the other hand, he would have to be chased for every bill, and he was often just, like, off and in arrears. And then he would just suddenly find a lump sum from somewhere, pay it off, and then the process would start again. And there's also a lot of chat that John and Olive had lunch the very day she went missing. One of the things the Bobbies find odd is that the hotel hosts mainly widows. And then this there on the 28th of February, 1949, detectives take him down to the station for questioning. And he goes with them because they're like, hey, we've got some questions. Can you help us with this? And he's like, sure, I'll definitely come help you. But it does not go the way they think it'll go. Now, they had discovered, like, his history of, like, fraud and theft. And they're like, okay, this dude is clearly suspicious. Let's get him down. And the first thing he does is admit to robbing Olive. Like, he's saying that he stole her coat and her jewelry. Basically, they had searched and found, like, the dry cleaning slip for the coat. They collected the coat, and then they found her jewelry and a bunch of other stuff in his attache case along with, and I shit you not, papers regarding the hendersons and the McSwans. Their investigation also leads them to the Crawley storeroom, which, lest we forget, did not have a drain or a manhole. So instead of disposing of the remains in a semi reasonable fashion, like, instead of actually disposing, what Haig did was just pour the corpse goo onto rubble in the construction yard. And so as they are, you know, searching, they find, like, on the rubble 28 pounds of body fat, human body fat, a partial foot, a hat pin, some gallstones and dentures. Dentures that Olive's dentist is able to identify as hers. So he ends up confessing, right? He confesses to the whole thing because he doesn't understand the law. Like, they basically misunderstood law and body evidence. He's like, no body, no crime. Corpus delicti. So corpus delicti, what it means is, like, the body of the crime. It's like the basic proof that a crime actually happened. It does not mean a literal dead body. Except for those times where there is in fact a literal dead body body. It's basically just about the evidence that ties you to the crime. And so Haig confesses to the whole thing. Names, places, dates. Because he thinks they cannot prosecute him without an actual whole human corpse. As if he doesn't have a whole ass paper trail behind him. When it clicks that he can be convicted of the crimes that he committed, he starts asking about Broadmoor, the infamous mental institution or lunatic asylum, depending on the era we're talking about. Like the famous English mental institution. He's like, how often do people get released from there? And then he starts acting a little bit crazy. He starts, like rewriting his own history. He's like, he was killing his victims and drinking their blood, that he was full of bloodlust and he just needed his blood thirst quenched. Like he's the vampire of red riding up there. And he's like, oh, no, the South Kensington vampire. Getty Fuck Po. He says that this was his motivation for murder. A thirst for blood, not his greed. That's such a lazy trick as well, though. He's like, oh, no, I'm. I'm crazy now. No. So he goes to court at Lewes Assizes and it took the jury a grand total of 17 minutes to find him guilty. And the judge, Mr. Justice Humphries, sentenced him to death. And he was hanged on 10th August, 1949 by famous executioner Albert Pierpont. So before we go, John George Haig claimed that he had three more victims. Now, there is not enough info to confirm this, but he confessed to killing a girl from Eastbourne in Sussex, killing a woman from Hammersmith in London, and killing a young man named Max. He doesn't say from where. Like, he doesn't say like this is maybe like the body with the car. Like, he just says he's killed them, but there's nothing really. It was there. Now, he could have confessed to killing these as a sort of oh my bloodlust, but also he could have stolen from them if they had something of value to him. But yeah, he is hanged by the neck until dead on the 10th of August, 1949. And then his body. Yeah, well, yeah. So when it came to executions in England, especially in sort of the mid 20th century, like, their bodies were handled in this sort of standardized manner and it was basically part of the Capital Punishment Amendment act of 1868, so they would not be returned to families. Like, if you were an executed criminal, your body would not be returned. And like in Wandsworth Prison, where John George Haig was executed, like, his body would have been buried in an unmarked grave, like, in the present. Like, that's what they did. And so that was sort of very common there. So I know what happened in Wandsworth, Pentonville, and strange ways. Now, there is a thing that happened after 1949, which was, like, in 1949, the royal commission on Capital Punishment was set up. And so this ran between, like, 49 and 53, so over the next four years. And it recommended that cremation should be considered, like, instead of, like, being buried within the prison walls, because now this didn't come into play till later. So he would have just been executed and then buried in an unmarked grave, which is, like, I think, fine, if you've been convicted and are definitely guilty of murdering six people, you know, at least. But, yeah. So ends the story of John George Haig, a murderer with surprisingly three names. Most of them do, like, three names. If they're a junior, it's even worse. Just one of those things. Now, one of the reasons why I wanted to cover this story for 1940s crime is that the last, like, two terrible tales of 1940s crime that we've covered, they had no resolution. There was no person caught for the crime. Nobody sort of faced that judgment. And I think it's good to know that sometimes the villain does get their comeuppance, and it's nice to have something finished and sealed and closed, you know, and it's just there. And I think that's very good. Now, I want everyone to appreciate how many jokes I didn't make during this episode because I have such gallows humor and I listen to true crime and to relax. But says me, who, when I was doing the Texarkana Moonlight Mortars, was very aware of just how large my kitchen windows are. And I'm here at night going, I don't like the sound of that. When it's probably just like, the neighborhood cat that likes to hang out outside. I started feeding it. So I feel like it's a rod off my own back at this point. Point. But, yeah, if you've made it this far, I'm feeding a cat that isn't mine. Get tickets to the Belfast show. Come and see me. It'll be fun. And, yeah, there's gonna be. There's gonna be a jabber jabber happening. Just some jibber jabber fun. And I think. I think you're gonna be into it. But you know what? It's time for is recommendations time for reading. You're gonna be shocked. I'm gonna recommend the talented Mistell Ripley for watching the Seven Dials mystery. I love me some Agatha Christie. I was eating my world's originals. I was watching my Agatha Christie. I was. I had a great time. It's something I actually really love is when they do that little flip where they change the story enough, just enough. Because if you've read the books and you've, like, seen all of the stuff for years, it's good to have just a little flip. I don't need it to be the most, like, correct adaptation at this point because there's been so many. I don't mind a little creativity as long as it stays true to, like, you know, the core of Christ.
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You know what I mean? Anyway, so listening. I've been listening to Blondie this week. I don't know why I've decided that one of Blondie songs is going to be my karaoke song just because it should short. But that's that. So with that, I am going to bed you. Good night. Adios. Au revoir. Au vuit a zene, my friends. Bye bye.
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Creon may increase your chance of fibrosing colonopathy, a rare bowel disorder. Tell your doctor if you have a history of intestinal blockage or scarring or thickening of your bowel wall, if you are allergic to pork or if you have gout, kidney problems or worsening of painful swollen joints. If you have any unusual or severe gastrointestinal symptoms or allergic reactions, take Creon as directed by your doctor and always with food. Do not chew capsules, as this may cause mouth irritation. Other side effects may include blood sugar changes, gas, dizziness, sore throat and cough. These are not all the side effects of Creon. Call 800-633-9110 or visit creoninfo.com to learn more. That's creoninfo.com I'm asking my doctor about.
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Epi and if Creon could help.