Rub a dub dub!
On another day, where I had to take some cues from real life, It was a long day and a nice hot bath is needed, its also National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day.
What's the connection? Well besides the morbid fascination with pumpkin everything, my bath water is so hot it feels like my skin is peeling off?
The Acid Bath Killer was John George Haigh, a British serial killer active in the 1940s. Haigh earned his gruesome nickname due to his horrifying method of disposing of his victims' bodies.
Haigh targeted wealthy individuals, charming his way into their lives by pretending to help them with business or legal matters. Once he gained their trust, he murdered them usually by bludgeoning, and then used sulfuric acid to dissolve their bodies, believing that if no remains were found, he couldn’t be convicted. He even defrauded his victims by draining their bank accounts and selling their possessions after they were dead.
In a recounting of his final blow. Haigh said, It was a cold, damp evening when Evelyn met him at the café. He was charming, with that reassuring smile and polished suit that made people trust him without question. She had no idea that by the next morning, she would cease to exist
Haigh had promised to help Evelyn with some legal matters. His business dealings were well-known, and she felt fortunate to have his attention. As they finished their tea, he suggested they continue the conversation at his workshop, a place he insisted was private and discreet.
The moment they would have stepped inside his warehouse, there was a strange chemical smell, and the air was thick, almost suffocating.
It happened so fast a bludgeon to her head, the world going black. She would have still been alive, her body heavy, and numb. In the distance a faint bubbling sound.
Haigh stood over a massive drum, stirring its contents with a metal rod, smiling.
In her dazed ways, she would realize that the drum contained the remains of someone, or something, liquefying in a thick, bubbling sludge. Haigh said he walked toward her, syringe in hand, and with a voice as cold as the acid itself, whispered, “You won’t feel a thing. And soon, no one will remember you.”
The last thing she saw would be the inside of that drum, knowing she’d dissolve into nothing, leaving behind only the faint, sickening smell of sulfur as the world forgot she ever existed.
His arrogance led him to believe he was untouchable, but police eventually discovered his grisly methods.
In February of 1949, police raided the warehouse on Leopold Road in West Sussex, after reports of Evelyn's disappearance and last known whereabouts.
Inside they found several 40-gallon drums and containers of concentrated sulphuric acid. Outside, they found 28 pounds of melted human body fat, part of a human foot, human gallstones, and part of a denture.
Haigh was arrested, tried, and found guilty of multiple murders. He was executed by hanging in 1949.
What makes Haigh’s story especially terrifying is his cold, calculating demeanor. He reportedly showed no remorse and confessed to his crimes with unsettling calm, even claiming to have developed a taste for human blood
Haigh’s brutal killings and chilling lack of empathy make him one of the most infamous murderers in British history.
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