Serial Killers - The House of Horrors Fred & Rosemary Wes Documentary

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The Gloucester House of Horrors Classification: Serial killer Characteristics: Rape - Incest - Torture - Mutilation - Dismemberment Number of victims: 11 - 13 + Date of murder: 1967 - 1987 Date of arrest: February 25, 1994 Date of birth: September 29, 1941 Victim profile: Charmaine West (8) / Catherine Bernadette "Rena" West (27) / Lynda Carole Gough (19) / Carol Ann Cooper (15) / Lucy Katherine Partington (21) / Theresa Siegenthaler (21) / Shirley Hubbard (15) / Juanita Marion Mott (18) / Shirley Anne Robinson (18) / Alison Jane Chambers (16) / Heather Ann West (16) Method of murder: Strangulation - Suffocation Location: Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom Status: Fred West hanged himself with strips of bedsheet while on remand in his cell at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, on January 1, 1995 Fred West was born into a poor family of farm workers in Bickerton Cottage, Much Marcle, Herefordshire, to Walter Stephen West (5 July 1914–28 March 1992) and Daisy Hannah Hill (1922-6 February 1968). He was the second of their six children. West would later claim that his father had incestuous relationships with his daughters. It has been suggested that incest was an accepted part of the household, and that his father taught him bestiality from an early age. West recalled, in police interviews, that his father had said on many occasions "Do what you want, just don’t get caught doing it". It is also alleged that his mother Daisy began sexually abusing him from the age of 12. At school, West showed an aptitude for woodwork and artwork, but did not excel academically. He left school at the age of 15 in December 1956, two years later, in November 1958, he suffered a fractured skull and a broken arm and leg in a motorcycle accident. The accident put him into an eight-day coma. His family reported that after the accident he became prone to sudden fits of rage. Two years later, he was unconscious for 24 hours after hitting his head in a fall from a fire escape. At age 20, he was arrested for molesting a 13-year-old girl. He was convicted, but escaped a sentence of imprisonment. His family effectively disowned him thereafter. Marriage to Rena Costello In September 1962, the 21-year-old West became re-acquainted with a former girlfriend, Catherine Costello, who was now better known as Rena from her time working as a prostitute. Costello was already pregnant by another man, and she and West married on 17 November before moving to Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Her daughter, Charmaine Carol, was born on 22 February 1963. Costello and West claimed they had adopted Charmaine, whose father was from Pakistan. In July 1964 Costello bore West a daughter named Anne Marie. During this period in Coatbridge, West worked as an ice cream van driver. On 4 November 1965, he ran over and killed a four-year-old boy with his van. The family, along with Isa McNeill who looked after the couple's children and Costello's friend Anne McFall, moved into the Lakeside caravan park in Bishop's Cleeve Gloucestershire at the end of 1965 when West feared for his safety following the ice cream van incident. To escape from West's sadistic sexual demands, Costello and McNeill moved to Scotland in 1966 while McFall, who had become infatuated with West, and the two children remained with him. Costello continued to visit the children every few months. In August 1967 McFall, who was eight months pregnant with West's child, vanished. McFall was never reported missing and her remains were found in June 1994. In September 1967, Costello returned to live with West, but left again the following year, putting the children in West's care. Serial Killers - The House of Horrors Fred & Rosemary Wes Documentary https://www.facebook.com/serialworldwide