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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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acid bath murders
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Sensationally unpleasant series of murders which came to light in 1949, when John George Haigh was tried and convicted for the murder of an elderly widow whose body he had dissolved in a bath of sulphuric acid. He had committed other similar murders (about five, but the exact number is uncertain), and claimed to have drunk a cup of blood from each of his victims before dissolving them.
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