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Today we're going to be talking about the monster of Worcester and it does involve children.

It is about the murder of three children.

And I'm going to do this video more of like a biography style because I couldn't find a better way to do it really.

Just the way that the storyline is, it makes more sense to kind of focus more on the killer rather than the killings.

Quickly before I do get into it, I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that I talk about in this video.

This video is for educational purposes and everything that I'm about to say is just information that I have found on the internet and I'm compiling into one video.

So David Anthony McGreevy was born in 1951 in Southport in England. He was the second oldest of six children to Thomas and Bella McGreevy.

His father was a sergeant in the army. I believe his mother was a housewife and due to his father's work, the family moved around a lot.

And this was all while David was still very young and when I say moving around a lot, I don't just mean like around the UK, they would move to different countries, they were in Germany at one point.

And David and his siblings because of this constant moving, they never really made friends.

Like they made friends in each place, but they never really had like worthwhile bonds with other children.

They only really had each other because as soon as they'd make a friendship, they'd have to move elsewhere and leave them.

But other than that, David McGreevy had a really kind of uneventful, normal childhood.

There was nothing really strange. It's not like he had no friends or no children to play with,

because he had five brothers and sisters. So it was relatively normal, and he was quite a happy child.

And he had really normal relationships with his family, since they were the only kind of people that were kind of stable in his

life. Him and all his siblings used to go on bike rides, they used to go skiing, obviously depending on

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