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Acid bath murderer drinks couple's blood then dissolves remains

A photograph of a dirty drain.
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Did he or didn’t he? The question of whether John Haigh really drank his victims’ blood before dissolving them in acid can never really be answered partly because he poured most of the evidence of his crimes down the drain. In this case, there did remain a foot of Mr Henderson. Haigh had killed with impunity for so long, however, that he simply chucked the remains into the corner of his yard...