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Udkommer d. 28.01.2025
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Rose West is the UK's most prolific serial killer. She and her husband, Fred, murdered twelve women and girls, including their own daughter, Heather, aged sixteen, and stepdaughter, Charmaine, eight.
Before being killed, their victims were subjected to horrific sexual violence. Nine of the victims' bodies were dug up from beneath the West's home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester.
Fred would watch through peepholes as Rose did paid sex work in their home. She would also have sex with both male and female lodgers. In 1972, aged seventeen, Caroline Owens, who had been hired as a nanny, was attacked, drugged and raped, but managed to escape. But she could not bring herself to testify, so the Wests remained free.
When they were arrested for the last time, in 1994, both Rose and Fred claimed that he alone had been the killer. Fred hanged himself before he could face trial, but Rose was sentenced to life imprisonment. She remains in HM Prison New Hall, in Flockton, West Yorkshire.