John Haigh believed he had concocted the "perfect murder," until forensic science caught up to him in 1949 Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019.

Discovered outside Rome, the bath, which is thought to be a mikvah, could be more than 1,600 years old. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Ostia Antica When Luigi Maria Caliò, a classical ...

Haigh’s murders earned him the nickname “the acid bath vampire” from local media, and he became known as one of the most notorious killers in English history, according to Cambridge ...

On a chilly February day in 1949, a meticulously dressed, charming British man named John Haigh walked into a London police ...

The director Catherine Gund fuses work from multiple artists with archival footage and interviews to craft an exploration of Black resilience. By Alissa Wilkinson In this coming-of-age drama from ...

Little did the officers know they were about to uncover one of Britain's most horrific serial killers — a man who believed dissolving his victims in acid would make him untouchable by the law.