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Murder Mile UK True Crime

Ep82 - Sulphuric: 6 - Henrietta Helen Olivia Robarts Durand-Deacon (Acid Bath Murderer, Kensington, London, W8)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

True Crime, English, Nglish, E, Uk, Crime, London, Society & Culture, Murder, Killer, True-crime, History, Personal Journals, British

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This is the Final Part of Sulphuric: the true story of serial killer John George Haigh.


On the evening of Friday 18th February 1949, serial-killer John George Haigh murdered his sixth and final victim Henrietta Helen Olivia Robarts Durand-Deacon, also known as Olive at his storeroom at Leopold Road. Six people had been murdered, as English Law states that “corpus delicti – with no body, there can be no crime”, having dissolved their bodies in acid, he knew he could literally get away with murder… but Haigh had made a fatal error.

  • Date: Friday 18th February 1949
  • Location: Onslow Court Hotel, 108 Queen's Gate, Kensington, London, W8 (renamed The Kensington)
  • Victims: 6 (although he would confess to nine)
  • Culprit: John George Haigh


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0:00.0

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0:44.4

Johnny Haig seems such an unassuming little fellow. Johnny Haig seems such an unassuming little fellow, small and slight, neat and polite,

0:51.6

and being just a few weeks from 40, blessed with a boyish face, dimpled cheeks, and an unbroken voice,

0:55.9

as he nibbled his toast and supped his tea, the quiet little choir boy whose mummy had dressed him in bow ties was still easy to see, but not the

1:02.0

monster that he claimed to be. For the last few hours, the four men sat in the stuffy

1:09.8

cramped confines of interview room three of Chelsea police station.

1:14.0

And as Chief Superintendent Barrett, divisional detective inspector Symes and detective inspector Webb listened.

1:20.9

Little Johnny Haig candidly recounted his callous crimes with the calmness of a man for whom murder was routine.

1:29.7

And as each delicious detail tickled him, his feeble moustache bristled, but behind the

1:35.2

dark dots of his marble-like eyes, there was nothing.

1:41.0

I have made some statements about the disappearance of Mrs. Durand Deacon.

1:45.2

The truth is, we left the hotel together, and she was inveigled by me into going to Crawley.

1:51.8

Having taken her to the storeroom at Leopold Road, while she was examining some paper for use of fingernails,

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