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John haigh acid bath murderer
John Haigh
English serial killer (1909–1949)
This article is about the serial killer. For the footballer, see George Haigh.
John George Haigh (HEYG; 24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer convicted for the murder of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine.
Haigh battered to death or shot his victims and disposed of their bodies using sulphuric acid before forging their signatures so he could sell their possessions and collect large sums of money. His actions were the subject of the television film A Is for Acid.
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Early life
John Haigh was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire,[1] and raised in the village of Outwood, West Riding of Yorkshire. His parents were engineer John Robert Haigh and his wife Emily (née Hudson), members of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative Protestant sect.
They had married late in life and Haigh was their only child.[2]
Haigh later claimed that he suf