Fred and Rose West [Archive] - Crime Library Message Boards

Leet

01-04-2009, 05:09 AM

What lead me to this forum was a search for forums related to Fred and Rose West. I haven't had any luck finding topics about them here so I'm starting one! As a newbie, I don't want to launch into a big spiel about them...Kinda just dabbling my toes here, lol...

Drumbum

01-09-2009, 09:42 PM

Never heard of them.

Leet

01-11-2009, 04:38 PM

As if you haven't!

grneyes

01-11-2009, 11:20 PM

Drummy read 25 Cromwell Street over at TCR in Houses of Horror.

f0revery0urs

01-11-2009, 11:48 PM

Never heard of them either.. Details?

SaraSidle

01-12-2009, 02:28 AM

Drummy read 25 Cromwell Street over at TCR in Houses of Horror.

oh no GE after your post it is coming back to me. I will check it out.I do not know tcr but I will google. thanks

SaraSidle

01-12-2009, 02:40 AM

oh no GE after your post it is coming back to me. I will check it out.I do not know tcr but I will google. thanks

Oh yeah Greeneyes. I remember it well. wasn't there a movie too? I think so but my altzheimers does not let me go beyond that. sick sick case tho.

SaraSidle

01-12-2009, 02:41 AM

Oh yeah Greeneyes. I remember it well. wasn't there a movie too? I think so but my altzheimers does not let me go beyond that. sick sick case tho.

kind of like Gacy only females buried all over........

grneyes

01-12-2009, 08:34 AM

oh no GE after your post it is coming back to me. I will check it out.I do not know tcr but I will google. thanks

Sara....tcr is thecrimeroom

SaraSidle

01-12-2009, 09:54 PM

Sara....tcr is thecrimeroom

duh please bear with me grneyes I am just getting over food poisoning and now have a great cold. probably due to laptop withdrawal. I must learn how to look it up and drummie left me a link. I am so sorry. very weak and tired these days. still miss you lots and thanks so much for trying to find me. hugs sara (it is Loretta's fault I am sick)

SaraSidle

01-12-2009, 09:57 PM

duh please bear with me grneyes I am just getting over food poisoning and now have a great cold. probably due to laptop withdrawal. I must learn how to look it up and drummie left me a link. I am so sorry. very weak and tired these days. still miss you lots and thanks so much for trying to find me. hugs sara (it is Loretta's fault I am sick)

I am pretty sure there is a movie on this case. Mr West comes across as a mousey man and they keep remodeling the place and backyard to get rid of the bodies. I have seen it and if there is a different story then there are 2 sick stories both in England. IMO

jamin86

01-14-2009, 06:00 AM

There hasn't been a film about Fred and Rose. There was quite a famous 'House of Horror' film about a case in the forties, John Christie called 10 Rillington Place, if perhaps thats the one you had in mind. The West case was about 12 years ago but still resonates with the British public. If a film were to be made, there would be uproar. Not that it stops people anyway ;)

2grayfox

01-14-2009, 09:20 AM

There hasn't been a film about Fred and Rose. There was quite a famous 'House of Horror' film about a case in the forties, John Christie called 10 Rillington Place, if perhaps thats the one you had in mind. The West case was about 12 years ago but still resonates with the British public. If a film were to be made, there would be uproar. Not that it stops people anyway ;)

Bibliography

There are at least four paperback books written on Fred and Rosemary West. None of these books are readily available outside of the U.K. The Crime Library recommends the Howard Sounes book as the best overall story of the complete case. Sounes was a reporter who broke the first major stories on the case.

Masters, Brian, She Must Have Known: The Trial of Rosemary West. London: Corgi Books, 1996.

Sounes, Howard, Fred & Rose. London: Warner Books, 1995.

Wansell, Geoffrey, The Life of Frederick West. London: Headline Book Publishing, 1996.

Wilson, Colin, The Corpse Garden: The Crime of Fred and Rose West. London: True Crime Library, 1998.

2grayfox

01-14-2009, 09:27 AM

If my chance you have not read this you should excellent article
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/west/horrors_6.html

SaraSidle

01-14-2009, 05:45 PM

There hasn't been a film about Fred and Rose. There was quite a famous 'House of Horror' film about a case in the forties, John Christie called 10 Rillington Place, if perhaps thats the one you had in mind. The West case was about 12 years ago but still resonates with the British public. If a film were to be made, there would be uproar. Not that it stops people anyway ;)

jamin86 thank you so much for helping out a burnt out mind. it really was a freaky story which surprises me that i did not remember more. maybe i blocked it. christie is one of the creepiest murderere there is IMO. thanks again for clarifying. Would be interesting to have a film though on the wests. IMO sara

SaraSidle

01-14-2009, 05:56 PM

If my chance you have not read this you should excellent article
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/west/horrors_6.html

Hey2grayfox excellent and gross article. I cannot believe this is the first I have heard of the West's. Story is close to the Christie's. I do not know how that happens but there are a lot sick people out there. thanks again sara