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John George Haigh was the serial killer who admitted to killing eight people (however was just charged using hexad execution) around England in the 1940s.
He claimed to st& drunk the cup of their blood fallowing killing a two and before placing the bodies within a container of sulphuric acid. He forged papers letting him to sell their possessions & collect material sums of money; he besides believed that the constabulary force required the person prior to it can bring a charge of slaying, & boasted all about this to the police. Pathologist Keith Simpson spotted a mortal gallstone in the yard of Haigh's workshop. By sifting the encompassing globe he in the future recovered many pounds of mortal fat & a placed of false teeth. Haigh was nicknamed "The Vampire of London" and the "Acid Bath Murderer." There is no grounds to believe for the "cup of blood" claim, & it seems to use been an attempt to plead insanity. The jury refused to assume this plea & convicted him of slaying. He was sentenced to demise & hanged (by Britain's Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint) in August 1949.
Inside 2002, Martin Clunes played Haigh in an ITV drama, A is for Acid.
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