John George Haigh's Serial Killer

John George Haigh was a 1940’s serial killer. He was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire but grew up in a village named Outwood, which is just west of Yorkshire. His parents were both members of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative protestant sect. He did not have much space and had to stay within a 10 foot wall that his father put up around their garden to lock out the outside world. He claimed that he suffered from recurring religious nightmares. His strict religious parents lead him to have a psychotic state of mind where he was obsessed with religious iconography and sacrificial fantasies.
Haigh did not have many friends and he claimed that his childhood was “bleak and lonely”. His only real friends were his few pets and his neighbor's dog that he cared for every once in awhile. The religion that his parents believed in caused Haigh to have no contact with the social world. He was even forbidden to
Durand-Deacon's plastic handbag(which had resisted the acid), a plastic lipstick container cap, a full upper denture and three human gallstones. One of the bones of the hip girdle was still partly preserved and showed clearly that the remains were female. According to police, Haigh had been sloppy in his workshop and also in his hotel room. They found a diary in the hotel room which he wrote in much detail about all of his murders. John George Haigh's signature for the crimes were: he used acid to dispose of the bodies, would either beat them to death or shoot them because he believed it was undetectable and dissolved the corpses in concentrated sulphuric acid after drinking their blood. When he got done with that he forged papers to be able to sell the victims possessions and collect substantial sums of money. He killed his victims in a span of 5 years was known as the acid bath murderer and described as a