4.&3. Fred & Rosemary West
And now, for the lucky couple. Fred West was not a smart man to begin with, and throughout his life he suffered two head injuries that may have caused him brain damage, which made him unpredictable and violent. Rose was quite a piece of work herself, being the result of a difficult pregnancy, and a horrid and turbulent marriage between her parents who were both ill and mentally unstable.
They first met when she was very young; he was married, had two children, and had already murdered a woman who was pregnant with his baby. She became with a child almost immediately, but soon after he went to jail and she, a teenager, was left to care of the whole progeny. It is believed that at that time she murdered West’s eldest daughter, and when his ex-wife came looking for her child she too was killed, dismembered, and buried. Soon after they secretly got married in Gloucester, had another girl, and moved into a bigger house, where they fitted the cellar as a torture chamber and tried it out with West’s remaining daughter, who was raped by Fred, while Rose held her down. In 1972 they kidnapped and abused a nanny, who managed to escape and reported the incident, but since West convinced a court magistrate that she had consented, and she was too scared to testify, it led to no conviction. After that, they embarked on a rampage of raping, torturing and killing, bodies buried under the cellar. It lasted for years and in the meantime, Rose kept having children.
When West’s eldest moved out, his lust for his daughters did not dwindle, but switched focus to his youngest, who would not indulge in her father’s desires, and talk to a friend at school about the weird things that occurred at her house. This resulted in her murder and dismemberment by both her parents. Still, their rates of abuse, rape and torture were so high they couldn’t possibly get rid of all the victims, and in 1992 they were exposed and Fred was convicted after which he became very cooperative and told the police where all the –literal- bodies were buried. He was charged with 12 counts of murder and hung himself in his cell. Rose tried to distance herself from him, claiming she too was a victim but was not believed and was sentenced to life in prision. And now, let’s see the top two most evil serial killers ever.
