You don't get a nickname like the acid bath murderer for being a nice guy.

Between 1944 and 1949, John the acid bath murderer, hey, definite bad guy,

killed between six and nine people and several of them were good friends of his.

And that fact didn't cause him to hesitate, shooting them or beating them to death,

in order to put their money into his pockets.

The gruesome way he disposed of his victims' bodies after he killed him,

shocked 1940s England and led to his nickname.

After his murders, he would dump bodies into a tub of sulfuric acid that turned the remains

into human sludge, which he then proceeded to literally dump down the drain or toss out in the yard.

His acid bath took place in what he called his workshops, where he claimed the outside world

to be working on various inventions, but he didn't invent anything.

Not even a new way to dispose of bodies, a French murderer before him actually inspired him to

dabble in the acid. Another detail of his crimes that disturbed the Londoners,

reading about all of his horrible, horrible crimes and the tabloids was an alleged post kill

vampiric ritual he may have engaged in after his arrest, hey, claim to have drunk the blood of his

victims immediately after murdering them. Vampire of Sacramento, Richard Chase, probably given him a

high five in hell right now. Unlike some of the other killers we've covered, growing up,

hey, did not seem destined to become a murderer. It wasn't set in fires, it wasn't torture in small

animals, it wasn't harboring murderous fantasies. He seemed like a nice kid actually, but then when

he grew up, he quickly grew disillusioned with working for a living. He wanted fancy clothes and

expensive cars and he didn't want to wait for any of that. After getting in trouble for stealing

at work, he dove into a life of scam-based crimes, a life that led to tossing some folks into some

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