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Who Did What Now

177. John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murderer

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

History, Feminist

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary


John George Haigh murdered at least six people over the course of five yers 1944-1949. A notorious fraudster he killed for convenience...and profit, and tried to dispose of his victims by liquifying them in barrels of acid, earning him the moniker The Acid Bath Killer.


And so continues our month long dive into 1940s crime...


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0:00.0

Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Did What Now? The History Podcast, that's

0:27.2

not your history class, with me, your host, Katie Chorlewood, History Harlet, and Reader of Books.

0:34.9

And I just received a Christmas card. It's like almost the end of January, and I just received a Christmas card it's like almost the end of January and I got a

0:41.7

Christmas card from Reno Nevada I'm so happy one I love cards and letters I love snail

0:50.4

mail okay so not only that I have that but in the card, there is a Christmas,

0:55.6

like, cookie tray bake recipe, which is going in the recipe book and shall be tried out next year.

1:02.8

I mean, in fairness, you can make Christmas cookies at any time of year if you want to.

1:07.3

You are not beholden to the seasons, let alone the festive period. Like, you can eat an

1:14.1

ice cream in winter. You can have a fruit salad in March. It doesn't matter, right? You can eat

1:20.3

what you want when you want, just not right before swimming, because apparently that's not good

1:24.8

for you. Although I think they debunked that, but I don't know.

1:28.6

So I've got a letter and these like recipes, a recipe, and then I've also got like these

1:34.5

horror themed stickers that are like so, I want to say Gen X Millennial and I am so happy

1:41.9

they are going to go on my new laptop, which I'm not recording on

1:46.8

yet, but I will be once I finally take it out of the box.

1:52.1

Oh, it has been, it has been a fun weekend and by fun, I mean, I got my arse absolutely

1:58.5

trashed at street golf by Bebe, my daughter. She absolutely, like,

2:06.8

2,000 points. She beat me by 2,000 points. And that was with me getting a hole in one, right?

2:12.8

That shows you just like how much better than me she is at like so many things and it was a bit of a tough

2:20.9

one because my son had like a birthday party he was supposed to go to but then he got sit home from

2:26.6

school with a fever so it was like 39 point something fever Celsius it was like um reaching but

2:32.8

101 102 like Fahrenheit So like a roundabout

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