They Dug for One Body. They Found a Third Thigh Bone.
February 1994. Gloucester police go into an ordinary house on Cromwell Street looking for a missing 16-year-old. In the garden they find something that should not be there: a third femur.
That is how Britain learned what Fred West had been hiding.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the confirmed story of 25 Cromwell Street: the builder, the wife who stood trial, the twelve known victims, the 1973 warning that did not stop them, and the dig that tore the house open after seven years of lies about Heather West.
No rumour. No cellar tour. The record, the names, and…
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