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🗓️ 5 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | What happens when love turns into something far more sinister? |
0:08.4 | Today we're diving into the disturbing world of Fred and Rose West, a couple whose horrific |
0:14.3 | crimes shocked Britain. Fred's violent upbringing and dark secrets set the stage for a life of unimaginable cruelty. |
0:22.6 | And when Rose entered the picture, things only got worse. |
0:26.6 | Together they unleashed horrors behind closed doors that would span decades, |
0:31.6 | leaving a trail of victims and a legacy of fear. |
0:35.6 | But in the end, it wasn't just their crimes that shocked the world. |
0:39.5 | It was their betrayal of each other. |
0:42.2 | Let's unravel the terrifying story of Fred and Rose West. |
0:46.7 | Welcome to 10-minute murder. |
1:02.4 | If looks can kill, then what can a cold and very public dismissal do? |
1:08.2 | That was the question a husband facing his wife in the British courts would find out in the mid-1990s. The man himself was Frederick Walter Stephen West, otherwise known as Fred West. |
1:15.9 | He was born on the 29th of September 1941 on a farm in Herefordshire. |
1:21.9 | With a name like that, I don't have to tell you it's England. |
1:24.8 | His parents were Walter Stephen West and Daisy Hannah Hill, and he was |
1:29.4 | born into a world of extremes. On one side was his father, a cold and strict disciplinarian. |
1:37.7 | And on the other side was his mother, a woman forever changed by the grief of losing other children |
1:43.0 | before she would have Fred. This made her |
1:46.1 | an overly cautious and protective woman and one who would spoil her surviving children. But Fred |
1:52.8 | had a very special place in her heart. He was her favorite child, the apple of her eye. Fred |
1:59.7 | found it easier and more fulfilling to stay at home with |
2:02.5 | her than he did going to school, where he achieved poor grades and had no friends. He actually left |
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