New house of horrors bring back memories of Fred and Rosemary West
Last updated at 17:36 18 November 2007
The events at 50 Irvine Drive this week evoke memories of the Gloucester "House of Horrors" where Fred and Rosemary West buried nine of their victims.
When police started digging at the Wests' Cromwell Street home in February 1994 they were merely looking for the couple's missing 16-year-old daughter Heather.
But they stumbled on another body and when Fred West realised that police would not leave until they had ripped the whole property apart, he confessed that there were several more.
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In the next few days, detectives discovered a total of nine young women under the patio and in the cellar.
Each had been raped and tortured by the couple, who typically but not always targeted girls from broken homes.
The bodies of three other victims - including West's first wife Rena, from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, and her eight-year-old daughter Charmaine - were found elsewhere.
West committed suicide in Winson Green prison in Birmingham on January 1 1995 as he awaited trial accused of 12 murders.
His wife was convicted of ten murders in November that year. She has since been told she will never be freed.
Out of respect for the victims' families, the three-storey semi-detached house in Cromwell Street and the adjoining property, No 23, were bulldozed in October 1996.
The Horror!
Meet Rosemary, who also came from a family where incest was the way to live and who at age sixteen, moved in with Fred and then gave birth to his child when she was seventeen. Fred went to prison for theft, and at that time Rosemary took it upon herself to kill Charmaine who was Fred's stepdaughter from his first marriage, because when Rosemary would beat her relentlessly, she refused to cry. Rosemary stated that Charmaine's Mother had come and retrieved her, however, when Charmaine's Mother actually did come to retrieve Charmaine, she also went missing.
The sweetest happiest couple did finally get married and they also had a second daughter. Sweet lovely husband Fred told Rosemary to go into prostitution. Rosemary ended up having seven children, three of them were mixed. The happy couple moved into a bigger house, and the top floor was turned into a sex room for Rosemary to perform her tricks. There were holes so Fred could watch and there was a "put on the red light" outside so the kids knew if that was on do not come a knocking dammit! Mama's busy! Fred would even allow Rosemary's dad to come and get it on with her.
These two loved the BDSM scene with violent sex, however, it had to be on young girls. It is sad to report that Fred's first child, Anna Marie age 8, was his first victim. Fred would brutally rape and torture her while Rosemary held her down. She was told that she would be beaten horrifically if she told anyone.
Next was a seventeen year old nanny that they hired, she escaped the torture and turned the couple in, however they were just slapped with a fine.
For five years the couple would brutally torture, rape, murder and then dismember the bodies of teenage girls. Fingers and toes would be removed before the bodies were buried in the torture cellar. Not every victim was a murder victim however, and when you leave people alive, someone is going to tell about the happenings at the home.
Detective Constable Hazel Savage, was the main person that lead the investigation at Fred and Rosemary's house. Stuff was found that indicated child abuse, also porn was found. Both were arrested and Rosemary tried to commit suicide, but one of her sons found her and revived her. A warrant was issued for the property and bodied galore were found, some decapitated. They were charged with twelve counts of murder. Rosemary tried to put all the blame on Fred, saying she was the victim, but the authorities were having none of it. In 1995 Fred committed suicide by hanging himself with bedsheets. In 1995 Rosemary was found guilty of ten counts of murder. She was given a minimum of twenty five years, but then was given a life sentence.
The House of Horrors was torn down and turned into a path going into the town center.
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