The police had found the remains of two bodies; they suspected one was Heather but who else was under the patio? The police confronted Fred: Fred made a staggering confession. Crimes that Shook the World s1e3: The Wests/House of Horrors, 2006
Was it possible that Rose knew nothing about the murders? Three young women killed and buried under her nose including her daughter Heather? Cromwell Street was turning out to be no ordinary family home, but a house of unimaginable horrors. ibid.
Fred had also confessed to a further nine murders including his first wife Rena Costello and her daughter Charmaine. ibid.
Fred told the police there were other bodies in other places. ibid.
In 1972 Caroline Roberts was raped, abducted and nearly murdered by Fred and Rosemary West. They spared Caroline after she promised to stay silent about her ordeal. ibid.
Fred and Rose were released with a £100 fine. ibid.
Rose killed Charmaine while Fred was in prison. ibid.
Rose West was found guilty on ten counts of murder. ibid.
Was Fred West born to kill? Born to Kill? Fred West, Channel 5 2012
It is widely believed that Fred West’s father Walter was a child abuser. ibid.
Anne McFall was last seen July of 1967. ibid.
The young Rosemary West’s childhood was tragically similar to that of Fred. ibid.
The child that suffered the most was eight-year-old Charmaine. ibid.
The Wests pleaded guilty to the kidnap and sexual assault of Caroline. With their victim too scared to give evidence Fred and Rose were never charged with rape. Fined £25 each they were allowed to go free. ibid.
In future they chose their victims with care. ibid.
Over the next fourteen years would kidnap, rape, torture and murder almost at will. But each murder would require them to push the boundaries of sado-sexual behaviour further and further. ibid.
Fred was devastated when Rose rejected him in court. ibid.
Fred West hanged himself. ibid.
Gloucester, February 1994: A warrant to search the house and garden. Appropriate Adult I, female rozzer to Rose, ITV 2011
The police – they need an appropriate adult. ibid. Janet Leach
I thought I’ll put her in the dustbin ... I cut her legs off ... I cut her head off ... And then she fit neatly in the bin. ibid. Fred’s interrogation
You show us where you buried your daughter Heather. ibid. female rozzer
They found some bones in the garden. ibid.
Shirley Roberts. The girl who caused all the trouble ... There was a bit of an argument. Got out of hand somehow. And she ended up getting strangled. ibid. Fred’s interrogation
You did know she works as a prostitute? ibid. solicitor to Janet Leach
You got nothing on me. And you know it. ibid. Rose to rozzers
You’re the only one I can trust. ibid. Fred to Janet
There are eight killings. All right, nine. ibid. Fred to solicitor
She was involved. ibid. Fred to Janet, re Rose
We made a pact, see. ibid.
We’re going on a journey together, Janet. ibid. Fred
Rose helped you kill Heather, didn’t she? Appropriate Adult II, rozzer to Fred
Your part in this is over. Thank you. ibid. female rozzer to Janet
When this is over I want you to tell the world what really happened. ibid. Fred to Janet
I have realised that Rose loved Rose and no-one else. ibid. Fred’s letter to Janet
She takes pleasure in making me feel small. ibid. Fred to Janet
Save a place for me at the Christmas dinner table, eh. ibid.
Because he was a lying psychopath, I’ll never know the truth. ibid. Karen to Mirror man
Janet Leach continues to believe that the remains of at least 20 other victims of Fred and Rosemary West have not been found. ibid. caption
Over the years the Wests’ sexual appetite led them to torture and murder at least twelve young women including some of their own children. Murders that Shocked Britain
The house that hid a dark secret: the bodies of five young women in the cellar. One more in the bathroom. In the garden where his children play three more young women lay including a teenage daughter. Fred and Rose: The West Murders I: The Cromwell Street Murders, 2008
The secrets of 25 Cromwell Street seem lost when Fred West took his own life in 1995. ibid.
A secret archive of personal belongings ... A life that evolved around murder and cruelty. ibid.
He made films starring his prostitute wife Rose. Rose serviced men in a first floor brothel Fred had made for her. ibid.
They found a human thigh bone in the mud ... The Home Office pathologist made another find. ibid.
During an eleven-day period nine sets of human remains were found at 25 Cromwell Street. ibid. news report
Frederick West left a legacy: a secret archive of home movies, writings and confessions. Fred and Rose: The West Murders II: The First Murders
West’s first-known killings took place in Herefordshire, a decade before the Cromwell Street murders. ibid.
In the mid-1960s Gloucester police struggled with a string of cases involving missing young girls. ibid.
Fred’s obsession with Janet Leach [appropriate person] led him to tell her secrets he would not tell police. ibid.
Police had turned their attention to the whereabouts of Fred’s first wife Rena, his step-daughter Charmaine and his child-minder and early lover Anne McFall. ibid.
Fred West accidentally killed a child. West was on his ice-cream round when he ran over a four-year-old boy. ibid.
Within months Fred made Anne McFall pregnant. ibid.
West said his attitude to incest was shaped by his experience with his own mother. Fred and Rose: The West Murders III: Family of Love
Their Cromwell Street home became a brothel. ibid.
Raising children for what they called Our Family of Love. ibid.
Fred and Rose had raised eleven children in the Family of Love. Three had been fathered by clients of Rose West’s prostitution business; two had already been murdered. ibid.