26 Facts About John Haigh

John Haigh's actions were the subject of the television film A Is for Acid.

John Haigh was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and raised in the village of Outwood, West Riding of Yorkshire.

John Haigh's parents were engineer John Robert Haigh and his wife Emily, members of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative Protestant sect.

John Haigh later claimed that he suffered from recurring religious nightmares in his childhood.

John Haigh developed great proficiency at the piano, which he learned at home.

John Haigh was fond of classical music and often attended concerts.

On 6 July 1934, John Haigh married 23-year-old Beatrice 'Betty' Hamer.

John Haigh moved to London in 1936, and became chauffeur to William McSwan, a wealthy owner of amusement arcades.

John Haigh sold fraudulent stock shares, purportedly from the estates of his deceased clients, at below-market rates.

John Haigh's scam was uncovered by someone who noticed he had misspelt Guildford as "Guilford" on his letterhead.

John Haigh was released just after the start of the Second World War; he continued as a fraudster and was sentenced to several further terms of imprisonment.

John Haigh experimented with field mice and found that it took only 30 minutes for the body to dissolve.

John Haigh was freed from prison in 1943 and became an accountant with an engineering firm.

McSwan worked for them by collecting rents on their London properties, and John Haigh became envious of his lifestyle.

John Haigh later admitted he had lured McSwan into a basement on Gloucester Road, hit him over the head with a lead pipe, and then put his body in a 40-imperial-gallon drum with concentrated sulphuric acid.

Two days later, finding that McSwan's body had mostly dissolved, John Haigh emptied the drum into a manhole.

John Haigh told McSwan's parents that their son had gone into hiding in Scotland to avoid being called up for military service.

John Haigh then began living in McSwan's house and collecting rent for McSwan's parents.

John Haigh then moved into the Onslow Court Hotel in Kensington.

John Haigh then lured Rose Henderson to the workshop, claiming that her husband had fallen ill, and he shot her as well.

John Haigh invited her down to the Leopold Road workshop on 18 February 1949 and, once inside, he shot her in the back of the neck with the.

The workshop in Sussex rented by John Haigh did not contain a floor drain, unlike the workshop he had rented at Gloucester Road in London.

John Haigh pleaded insanity, claiming that he had drunk the blood of his victims.

John Haigh said he had dreams dominated by blood as a young boy.

John Haigh apparently had believed that if the bodies of his victims could not be found, a murder conviction would not be possible.

On 10 August 1949, John Haigh was hanged by executioner Albert Pierrepoint.