Fred and Rose West
background
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While Daisy Letts was pregnant with daughter Rose she was treated with electric
shock therapy, well into the third trimester.
When Rose was born she would bang her head against walls and as she grew older
was extremely unintelligent and didn’t understand social situations.
Rose was sexually abused by her aggressive father, but was unaware that this was
wrong, so continued to do so to not only her own children but her two youngest
brothers as well.
When she was a teenager she was a well known local prostitute who preferred
black men, but only if they allowed her much older husband to watch while he
masturbated.
Her mother Daisy was a severe depressive and her father was schizophrenic, both
of which are hereditary mental disorders.
Fred and Rose West
Background part 2
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Fred grew up having a sexual relationship with his mother, and his father
introduced him to bestiality when he was in primary school.
Fred was unintelligent and left school at 15, two years later he was in a motorcycle
accident in which he fractured his school which led to fits of rage.
At the age of 19 he was arrested for molesting a 13 year old girl, because of this his
family disowned him.
When he was 21 he married his first wife Rena Costello, he then had 2 daughters
with her.
They eventually got divorced due to Rena’s disgust at Fred’s sadistic sexual
demands.
Fred and Rose West
Victimology
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Fred and Rose West only ever killed women with brown hair and between the ages
of 8 and late 20’s.
They killed 11 women, two of which were their own children and another was
Fred’s ex-wife Rena Costello.
Fred and Rose west often had a huge sexual element within the way they killed
their victims, using sex toys and inseminating women with the sperm of Fred West
and the sperm of many of Rose’s ‘clients’.
Fred liked to cut off the fingers and toes of his victims and other various parts of
the body.
The wests often used duct tape to cover their victims faces, sometimes shoving a
feeding tube up their nostril so that they could cover their eyes, nose and mouth.
Where the Victim’s were buried.
Carrying the remains off for testing.
The mattress they
would use to duct
tape the women
down to rape and
torture them.
Fred and Rose West
how they got caught
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Fred videoed himself raping his daughter Anne-Marie, so when Anne-Marie told
her teachers at school; the police found the evidence and Fred was arrested.
This peaked the interest of the police as to where their daughter Heather had
gone, so they continued to investigate Fred and 25 Cromwell Street.
Fred and Rose’s other children joked that Heather was buried underneath the
patio, the police took this seriously and decided to start digging. They found three
bodies in the back garden alone, so decided to look for more.
Fred immediately admitted that he had committed murder, Rose however claimed
that she had only tortured the women, not killed them.
Their one victim that got away contested that Rose was actually the most horrific
of the two, and the police soon figured out that Rose has at least killed Charmaine
because Fred was in prison at the time.
Fred and Rose West
Evidence, trial and punishments
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Rose was tried in 1995 and Winchester Crown Court, she was found guilty of all 10
murders and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
At this point Fred had already committed suicide by hanging whilst in custody as
the investigation was going on.
25 Cromwell Street was demolished and all of the West children were put into
care.