John Haigh

John Haigh(date of birth uncertain) was raised by a devout puritanical family in Yorkshire, England. As a result, he was a very religious child, and was even a choir boy. From the information that has been gathered, it is clear that Haigh was will liked by all who knew him when he was young. When he moved out to live on his own, however, he changed.
This vampire's career of evil began, lke that of Haarmann's, in a non-vampiric way. John Haigh spent several years of his adult life serving time for thefts. We can't be sure how those years affected Haigh; however, when he finally got out of prison, he was anything but a sommon thief. He stole more than just his victims' possessions' he also took their blood.
In 1943, Haigh was released from prison for the last time before performing the crimes that made him famous as a mortal blood drinker. AFter he got out, he murdered a young man by the name of Donald McSwann. Haigh then proceeded to drink the man's blood, take some of his belongings, and dissolve the body in sulfuric accid, apprently believing that there would no evidence with which to convict him.
That gruesome modus operandi would be the one that Haigh would follow for approzimately five years. In that time, John Haigh murdered and drank the blood of McSwann's parents, along with three other individuals, disposing of their bodies each time in acid. You might be wondering by now how we know that Haigh drank his victims' blod if all of their bodies were dissolved? Like Haarman, when Haigh was caught, he confessed.
the vampiric killer's last victim was a wealthy woman named Mrs. Durand-Deacon. Haigh fooled her into thinking they could go into the artificial fingernail besiness together. When she went to his home to see the materials for the undertaking. Haigh shot her in the back of the head. He told police that he then went to his car, got a drinking glass, and returned to the corpse. Using what he said might have been a pen knife, Haigh cut into the side of the woman's neck and filled his glass with her blood. After he drank, he took all of his victim's valuables and dissolved her body, or so he thought.
Parts of Haigh's last victim did not dissolve. Among the remains were bones, dentures, and part of a foot that helped to positively identify the victim as the missing Mrs. Durand-Deacon. This evidence led Haigh to testify to all the previously mentioned acts. He was hanged for his crimes in 1949.

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