September 29, 1941 - Fred West

What distinguished West's crimes was their sustained, domestic nature — violence embedded within an ordinary household over two decades, directed almost exclusively at girls and young women. His partnership with Rose West enabled a pattern of sexual violence that only became visible when investigators began excavating the property on Cromwell Street in 1994. He died before trial, leaving the full scope of his individual culpability partially unresolved.

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Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer, serial rapist and child molester, who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, England—the majority with his second wife, Rose West.

The victims were girls and young women. At least eight of the murders involved the Wests' sexual gratification and included rape, bondage, torture, and mutilation. The victims' dismembered bodies were typically buried in the cellar or garden of the West residence in Gloucester, which became known as the "House of Horrors". Fred is known to have committed at least two murders on his own; Rose is known to have murdered Fred's stepdaughter, Charmaine. The couple were arrested and charged in 1994.

Fred fatally asphyxiated himself while detained on remand at HM Prison Birmingham on 1 January 1995, at which time he and Rose were jointly charged with nine murders, and he with three further murders. In November 1995, Rose was convicted of ten murders and sentenced to ten life terms with a subsequent whole life order.

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