Fred And Rosemary West
| Hard-working and dishevelled, hair caked in sweat and
fingernails full of dirt, overalls stained with grease, Fred West was never
clean and tidy. But he was a hard worker. He worked tirelessly to renovate
the old terrace house that was his pride and joy and always had several
labouring jobs and deals on the go at once. Fred was a hustler and a
small-time scam artist, always up to something. He never had an idle moment.
Its a wonder that he found the time to be a ruthless murderer and torturer,
but he did. Rosemary and her husband Fred West, were accused of murdering 10 women and young girls over a 16 year period ending in 1987. They enjoyed luring away vulnerable runaways with offers of rides, lodging or jobs as nannies. Once in their clutches, the young women were stripped, bound with tape, raped, tortured, then killed, dismembered and buried. They shared a fascination with BDSM. Police found pictures and tapes of Rose bound, gagged and whipped. They also found a wide variety of sex-toys including gags, hoods, and huge dildos. Their victims were often abducted, then bound and gagged before being subjected to hideous torture over a period of days in their cellar. Rosemary it seems loved to torture by the insertion of huge dildos and they both had a fascination with an exteme form of bondage and suffocation. When they went too far, as they often did, Fred would dismember and bury the bodies. Even their own children were abused, raped and tortured by this wicked couple, being used as guinea-pigs for their sexual experimentation. Rose would usually do the tying up, and the children would be tied naked and spread-eagled on a metal bedframe. One of the children said later " She had canes and whips, including a cat of nine-tails. She might use all of them or just a selection. When she had completed her experiments on us she would encourage Dad to rape us or insert objects into us herself". It was a standing joke amongst the children that one of them, Charmian, was buried in the garden under the patio that Fred had laid. This family joke eventually led police and social workers to discover the whole grisly truth. The killer couple was arrested at their lethal homestead, 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 produced eight more female bodies, including her stepdaughter, Charmaine, under the house and in garden. One more body was found under kitchen of a former home at 25 Midland Road, Gloucester. Fred hanged himself in jail New Years Day, 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, she was convicted of murdering 10 women and girls on November 22, 1995. Authorities are investigating the whereabouts of nine other women who frequented their house. |
Rosemary West
HM Prison
Old Elvet
Durham
DH1 3HU
Phone:
0191 3862621
0191 3862524
