How Can You Prove Murder If There Is No Body? | John Haigh, the Acid Bath Murderer
February 1949. A widow leaves a Kensington hotel after lunch and never comes back. The man who took her there tells police she no longer exists — destroyed in acid — and asks how you can prove murder if there is no body.
He was wrong.
Alexander Lawson traces the crimes of John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Murderer: six confirmed killings in England between 1944 and 1949, committed for money and hidden in sulphuric acid. From a Chelsea basement and a Crawley workshop to the Onslow Court Hotel, Lewes Assizes, and the gallows at Wandsworth.
The victims: William McSwan. Donald and Amy McSwan…
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