4. Killer Couple: Fred & Rosemary West

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06/15/21 • 88 min

One of the UK's most infamous serial killing couples. Fred and Rosemary West were one of the most sadistic and twisted cases we have covered; torturing and killing 12 known women, including their own children, between the years of 1967 and 1987.

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Sources for this episode:

https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/west-frederick-victims.htm

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2864871/fred-rose-west-victims-murder-cellar/

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12068918.victims-blame-for-the-deaths-mother-tells-of-her-hunt-for-missing-daughter/

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-57266871

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_West

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/22/newsid_2549000/2549073.stm

https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/255044/The-making-of-a-monster

https://web.archive.org/web/20071207122725/http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/famous_criminal/3/biography/1/Rosemary_West.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Times

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/more-sordid-revelations-about-west-s-family-to-be-detailed-in-biography-1.18254

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1999/nov/21/featuresreview.review4

https://inews.co.uk/culture/fred-rose-west-children-daughters-what-happened-252820

Sounes, Howard (1995). Fred and Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors. Warner Books (London).

Wilson, Colin (1998). The Corpse Garden. True Crime Library (London)

"Fred & Rosemary West". Murder in Mind. No. 1. 1996.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 https://ncadv.org/get-help

National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or 1-800-787-3224 https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Sources for this episode:

https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/west-frederick-victims.htm

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2864871/fred-rose-west-victims-murder-cellar/

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12068918.victims-blame-for-the-deaths-mother-tells-of-her-hunt-for-missing-daughter/

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-57266871

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West#cite_note-news.google.com-179

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_West

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/22/newsid_2549000/2549073.stm

https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/255044/The-making-of-a-monster

https://web.archive.org/web/20071207122725/http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/famous_criminal/3/biography/1/Rosemary_West.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Times

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/more-sordid-revelations-about-west-s-family-to-be-detailed-in-biography-1.18254

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1999/nov/21/featuresreview.review4

https://inews.co.uk/culture/fred-rose-west-children-daughters-what-happened-252820

Sounes, Howard (1995). Fred and Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors. Warner Books (London).

Wilson, Colin (1998). The Corpse Garden. True Crime Library (London)

"Fred & Rosemary West". Murder in Mind. No. 1. 1996.

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Sources for this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case

https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/elisabeth-fritzl-natascha-kampusch-found-new-lives-after-abductions

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/19/josef-fritzl-austria

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/04/austria.internationalcrime1

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/18/psychiatrist-analyses-josef-fritzl

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-josef-fritzls-dungeon-visit-12288086

https://allthatsinteresting.com/elisabeth-fritzl

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Josef_Fritzl

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191633/Cellar-victim-Elisabeth-Fritzl-stops-therapy-finding-love-bodyguard-boyfriend.html