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Bodies in the back garden

true stories of brutal murders close to home

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An edition of Bodies in the back garden (2014)

Bodies in the back garden

true stories of brutal murders close to home

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Overview: There is one problem which every killer must face: how to get rid of the body. Murderer Dennis Nilsen famously cooked the corpses of his victims and flushed them down the toilet, only to be caught when the sewers blocked up. But his first 12 victims were disposed of in the back garden of his previous home. Fred and Rosemary West buried the bodies of three of their victims in the back garden. Milwaukee cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer began his murderous career scattering human remains in the backyard of his parents' home in Bath, Ohio. Convicted killer Peter Tobin went back on trial after two more bodies were found in the back garden of his former home. And grisly granny Dorothea Puente murdered lodgers at her boarding house in Sacramento, California, dispatching them to the backyard while continuing to cash their Social Security checks. This book explores these and many other cases that suggest that, whatever the motive for murder, the back garden is a convenient place to dump the corpse.

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John Blake
Language
English
Pages
274

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Bodies in the back garden: true stories of brutal murders close to home
2014, John Blake
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Corpse garden
Vegetable patch at Rillington place
Bonfires and beasties
Backyard cannibal
Back of the boarding house
Aussie rules
Macabre Margate
Head in the flower bed
Girlfriend's garden
Pusher under the patio
Block head
Family feud
Multi-faceted monster
Black widow
Ogre of the Ardennes
Dishonor killing
Not a rockery
House of death
Out with the bins
Cleveland strangler
Tiny bodies
Family plot
Ornamental garden.

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London, England
Other Titles
True stories of brutal murders close to home

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.1523
Library of Congress
HV6515 .C378 2014, HV6513

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 274 pages
Number of pages
274

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32081622M
Internet Archive
bodiesinbackgard0000cawt
ISBN 10
1782199861
ISBN 13
9781782199861
OCLC/WorldCat
877846578

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