Fred and Rosemary West: Sado-Sexual Serial Killers

Started by Devious Viper, October 27, 2005, 12:36:05 AM

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Rosemary and her husband Fred West, were accused of murdering 10 women and young girls over a 16 year period ending in 1987. They took great joy in luring away vulnerable runaways with offers of rides, lodging or jobs as nannies. Once in their clutches inside the "House of Horrors", the young women were stripped, bound with tape, raped, tortured, then killed, some were dismembered and buried. The killer couple was arrested at their home, 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, England in 1994.

Police, armed with a search warrant, dug up the remains of their 16 year old daughter, Heather, who vanished in 1987. Further excavations under the house and in the garden produced eight more female bodies, including Rosemary's stepdaughter, Charmaine.

One more body was found under the kitchen of a former home at 25 Midland Road, Gloucester. Fred hanged himself in jail on New Years Day in 1995. He also faced two further charges of murdering his ex wife and a baby-sitter and burying them in fields near his former home. Authorities believe that Fred probably killed more women. Rosemary, an admitted prostitute, still maintains her innocence. However, on November 22, 1995, she was convicted of 10 murders. Authorities are investigating the whereabouts of nine other missing women who frequented their home.

In September 2001 a documentary filmmaker called for an investigation into claims that Fred West may have murdered 20 more people. David Monaghan said West confessed the additional murders to a social worker assigned to him in prison and repeated them in a TV show. Gloucestershire police said there was not enough evidence to investigate the claims and tried to block the airing of the interview.

Rose West abandoned plans to appeal against her conviction for her part in the Cromwell Street murders. She said she was ready to spend the rest of her life in prison.

West's solicitor expressed surprise at the decision but her brother Andrew Letts said he was relieved she would never be free.

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Satanic connections? If you read this page, I'd add that MY opinion is that they cut off the fingers and toes as torture while the victims were still alive. I'm sKeptical of the "satanic" connection....
Snuff films?
Rose West Police Interview Transcript



I heard of these guys, they had to destroy their house because it was so infamous that people living around them demanded it destroyed and unsafe. Crazy, crazy, sick people.  :-(

June 20, 2006, 11:19:14 AM #4 Last Edit: June 20, 2006, 05:08:42 PM by Devious Viper
That's right. In October 1996, Gloucester City Council demolished 25 Cromwell Street.

There were calls for a memorial garden to be built on the spot but there were fears it would be turned into a ghoulish shrine. Today the spot where nine bodies were found is simply a landscaped footpath leading to the city centre.

Image:25 Cromwell St today

...But the legacy of the House of Horrors continues to take its toll...

Fred West's brother John hanged himself in his garage as he waited to find out if a jury would find him guilty of raping niece Anne-Marie. She herself has struggled to come to terms with the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father and stepmother.

In November 1999 she was rescued after throwing herself into the river from a bridge near Gloucester in an apparent suicide bid. In January 2002 their son Stephen West attempted suicide at his home in Bussage, near Gloucester, after his girlfriend left him. In a chilling echo of the death of his father and uncle, Stephen tried to hang himself but he survived when the rope snapped.

Eight years after police found the first body there continues to be speculation that Fred West claimed more victims and buried them somewhere in Gloucestershire. A social worker said Fred had admitted killing Mary Bastholm, a 15-year-old who went missing in Gloucester in 1968. She also said: "Fred said there were 20 other bodies spread around and he would give the police one a year."

If he was telling the truth, he has taken his secrets to the grave and Rose West is showing no signs of wanting to reveal any more about the murders as she serves her life sentences. She was found guilty on all ten counts by unanimous decision and was jailed for life. The Home Secretary has since told her that she will NEVER be allowed out.

The known victims

* 1967 - Ann McFall (Scottish nanny and Fred's lover. Was eight months pregnant with his child). Body found in "letterbox field" near Much Marcle
* 1970 - Rena Costello (Fred's first wife, also Scottish). Body found in "fingerpost field" near Much Marcle.
* 1972 - Charmaine West, 8 (Rena's eldest child). Body found beneath 25 Midland Road, Gloucester
* 1973 - Linda Gough, 21 (seamstress from Gloucester). Body found beneath 25 Cromwell Street
* 1973 - Lucy Partington, 21 (university student, from Gotherington, near Cheltenham). Body found beneath 25 Cromwell Street.
* 1974 - Carol Cooper,15 (schoolgirl from Worcester). Body found beneath 25 Cromwell Street
* 1975 - Juanita Mott, 19 (from Newent, Glos) Body found beneath 25 Cromwell Street
* 1975 - Shirley Hubbard, 15 (schoolgirl from Worcester). Body found beneath 25 Cromwell St
* 1977 - Therese Siegenthaler, 21 (Swiss hitchhiker). Body found beneath 25 Cromwell St
* 1977 - Alison Chambers, 17 (originally from Swansea). Body found in garden of 25 Cromwell St
* 1978 - Shirley Robinson, 18 (lodger and Fred's lover. Heavily pregnant). Body found in garden of 25 Cromwell St.
* 1987 - Heather West, 16 (Fred and Rose's eldest daughter). Body found in garden of 25 Cromwell St.


sick and very sad
the question is not that the glass is either half empty or half full..but more like 'WHO DRANK MY BEER?'


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