Murder & homicide · 1949 · 1940s

The Acid Bath Murderer

Between 1944 and 1949 John George Haigh murdered at least six people in London and the Home Counties and dissolved their bodies in sulphuric acid. He mistakenly believed he could not be convicted without a corpse and confessed freely; he was hanged in 1949.

This summary is written in our own words from published historical sources. Map locations are approximate. Every case in the archive is at least ten years old.