Fred and Rose
The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors
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4.4 • 19 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The true crime bestseller about Fred and Rose West a couple virtually unique in British criminal history - who loved and killed together as husband and wife.
During their long relationship the Wests murdered a series of young women, burying the remains of nine victims under their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, including those of their teenage daughter, Heather. What was left of Fred West's eight-year-old stepdaughter was dug up from under the Wests' previous Gloucester home; his first wife and nanny were buried in open country outside the city. Several victims had been decapitated and dismembered, their remains showing signs of sexual torture. These twelve are just the ones the police found when the Wests were arrested in 1994. There may be more whose bones have not been located.
Howard Sounes broke the first major story about the Wests as a journalist, and covered the murder trial of Rosemary West, before writing this , the classic book about the case. Beginning with Fred's and Rose's bizarre childhoods, Sounes charts their lives and crimes in forensic detail, creating a fascinating and truly frightening account of a marriage soaked in blood.
Customer Reviews
Fascinating
This book had me fascinated from the first page to the last. The inclusion of both Fred and Rose's separate upbringings and the societies in which they lived are fundamental to this story and the psychology that shaped such horrific killers. Such detail is given to the lives of this couple that while reading I couldn't help feeling constantly intrigued as to how their relationship progresses even while forming a hatred of them. I think Richard Ferguson hit the bulls eye when he said these people had opted out of the human race.
Amazed
This is the first book I have ever read and I am unsure if any other will absorb my mind so entirely. I can't comment on how it was written as I know no comparison. But I can say the detail of the subject is extensive and written simply enough for me to follow very easily.
As dark as this story of Fred & Rose is, I could not wait to get back to reading it each day.
It has left me feeling a little numb.
It's hard to accept these activities actually occurred. As the book went on, it seemed further from reality and at times began to believe I was reading a fictional story.