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Serial killer Rosemary West murdered at least 10 young women. Most of them were dismembered and buried in the cellar of her home on Cromwell Street.

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Rose was pregnant at the time with their first son, Stephen, who was born in August.

Over the next five years their good fortune was to prove misfortune for Lynda Gough, Lucy Partington, Juanita Mott, Therese Siegenthaler, Alison Chambers, Shirley Robinson and 15-year-old schoolgirls Carol Ann Cooper and Shirley Hubbard, all of whom became victims of the West couple’s insatiable appetite for violent sex. After brutal sexual attacks, all were murdered,

dismembered and buried in the cellar having first had their fingers and toes removed.

Rape and Murder of Daughter Heather

Rose produced children with alarming frequency and daughter Louise was born in November 1978, bringing their offspring to six, although not all were fathered by West. Barry joined the brood in June 1980, with Rosemary Junior following in 1982 and Lucyanna in 1983. They were aware to some extent of the activities in the house, but West and Rose exercised strict control over them.

West’s sexual interest in his own daughters didn’t wane either, and when Anne-Marie moved out to live with her boyfriend, he switched his attentions to younger siblings, Heather and Mae. Heather resisted his attentions and, in 1986, committed the cardinal sin of telling a friend about the goings on in the house. The Wests responded by murdering and dismembering her, and burying her in the back garden, where son Stephen was forced to assist with digging the hole.

Arrest

Eventually their activities drew the attention of Detective Constable Hazel Savage, who led a search at Cromwell Street in August of 1992. On December 13, 1994, West was charged on twelve counts of murder. He hanged himself in his cell while awaiting trial. Rose West went on trial on October 3, 1995. The jury unanimously found her guilty on ten separate counts of murder on November 22, 1995. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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