British Crime - Murder - The Acid Bath Murders - Lewes - 1949

British Crime - Murder - The Acid Bath Murders - Lewes - 1949 Stock Photo

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3464 x 4096 px | 29.3 x 34.7 cm | 11.5 x 13.7 inches | 300dpi

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18 July 1949

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Lewes UK

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Miss Barbara Stephens, 21, of Crawley, Sussex, who is said to be a friend of John George Haigh, at Lewes, Sussex, to attend the trail of 39-year-old John George Haigh, the company director being tried for the murder of Mrs Olive Durand-Deacon, one of the victims of the so-called 'Acid Bath Murders'.

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