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Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

John George Haigh

Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

Gruesome Podcast

True Crime

4.6932 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When Olive Durand-Deacon, a wealthy widow, disappeared in February of 1949, her "friend" John George Haigh, arrived at the police station to report her missing. Unfortunately, he was also the one responsible for her disappearance. Meg explains how John became known as the serial killer, the Acid Bath Murderer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Welcome to Grusam, your horrific true crime podcast. I am Connie along with the study queen Meg and tonight she is going to tell

0:28.5

us about John George Hay. Before I tell you about John George Hay I'm going to need every single person listening to just like say into the air, Meg is going to pass her boards, because I take them next week and I am nervous.

0:44.8

I'm gonna be fine, I'm gonna pass them, but everyone in the whole wide world just say that

0:51.1

into the air for me, put that energy out there.

0:54.0

I got you. Thank you.

0:56.0

Thank you.

0:58.0

I got a little, not super historical, but an older one for you guys tonight.

1:03.4

On February 20th, 1949, a man and woman

1:08.9

went into a police station in Chelsea London

1:12.0

to report that 69-year-old Olive Duran Deacon had been missing for several days.

1:18.0

Olive lived at the Onslow Court Hotel in South Kensington, and she had for the past two years.

1:24.9

John Hay, the man who was reporting her missing, told police that she had

1:29.7

failed to show up for an appointment that she had scheduled with him.

1:33.6

He claimed that Olive had asked him to pick her up,

1:36.4

and after waiting for over an hour,

1:38.2

she had not shown up.

1:40.2

Olive's friend, Constance Lane, who had accompanied John Hay to the police station.

1:46.5

She said that Olive hadn't been at dinner or at breakfast at the hotel and that she was worried.

1:52.0

So like lots of wealthy older ladies lived at the

1:56.4

Onslow Court Hotel and they would have breakfast at lunch and dinner together.

2:00.3

This seems like a dream. It really does.

2:03.0

As I age put me, well I went to a nursing home this week and they gave, like the residents were

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