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Fred & Rose West: Britain's Most Infamous Killer Couples

On a February morning in 1994, police arrived at a shabby house on Cromwell Street in Gloucester, England, carrying a warrant in the hunt for a missing girl. What they found inside shocked the country and the wider world. Years of abuse had taken place there, along with a hidden torture chamber and a burial site holding the remains of victims. The house became known as the House of Horrors, and by the end of the inquiry the death toll had reached twelve, all of them young women and girls, among them a daughter and a stepdaughter.

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This book follows Rosemary and Frederick West from their upbringings through the crimes, the victims, the investigation that exposed them, and the traits that drove them. It is a detailed and often grim account of a true case, written for readers who can face its disturbing content.

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