Fred and Rose West Netflix

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What an odd and sick couple. I was too young when all this happened but the amount of missed opportunities to stop them! Fred tried to keep Fred out of it didn't he but she got rid of him It seems. Shame he killed himself he should have had to live with what he did.

I listened to an audio book by one of their daughters (May West I think). It was interesting to hear it from a different perspective but still horrible for the kids. Didn't she have an affair with M Hindley in prison?

watched it last night, no words really, I was a bit too young at the time but my christ

@Unicorn34 no actual way?

What I couldn't understand is how the had lodgers if they had 10 kids? Where was the room? Their poor kids. I heard not of them are in touch as their backgrounds were so painful they've cut contact completely

okay okay @GreenYodaFace many of them were taken into foster families, I can't imagine how difficult it was for them, the part when the little lad Stephen was like we wanted the school to know but then we'd get separated

& at the end when the sister of one of the victims, I'm ashamed I can't remember, hugged him coming out of the court

Their house was reasonably large, three storeys. In later years, Fred West converted the cellar (where some of the bodies were buried) into a bedroom for the children and also extended the house at the back. Books about the crime usually include floor plans of the house at different stages.

I read their daughter's book - the kids slept in the cellar, they were locked in and the light bulb removed at night.

I was in secondary school when they were arrested. There's no way I could watch a programme about them. Strange because I can read serial killer books and watch dramas but something about this just freaks me out.

I lived down the road at the time
the houses were big, I was in a bedsit and they were 4 floors (inc basement)
when the story broke it was madness in Gloucester

im going to watch the doc

Oh my god no!

I struggled with the format to start with but finished it
Really grim.

I thought the neighbour was really weird and accepting of their behaviour.

No way did you actually?? That must have been crazy & yeah "terrace" to me obviously means a different thing

I watched it last night, I'm old enough to remember it unfolding.
It was chilling to watch, I woke up thinking about it this morning.
Apart from the victims, its the other children that really got to me, what a horrendous life they must have had

@Scorchio84 I loved my bedsit it was the first place I’d had on my own but the house was HUGE

It’s a good documentary, if info light, but it was very interesting to hear from those who were immediately involved. It was bizarre seeing it unfold at the time as it was local news.
The books give so much depth which honestly would have been harrowing in a documentary. Happy Like Murderers is an excellent account.

Books always give you more but I was like "no fucking way" through this

emmm did you have an escape? Listen how vulnerable where you? Different times
scary

I'm from Glawstur too. I listened to a podcast about it a couple of years ago which gave me an adult understanding of what I didn't really understand as a young teenager at the time. It's called Unheard: the Fred and rose west tapes. I'd recommend it, and I'm not a true crime type at all.

No way?

I have read the book on them and it’s extremely gruesome what happened to those victims and the children, the documentary actually left out a lot of detail, both of them were monsters! I had to have a break from the book because I was literally feeling sick then went back to it. They are both psychopaths. It angers me that he got the easy way out of honest. He should have been watched 24/7.

I had to stop from a different book, different case, sick cunts

Yep I’ve read quite a few of the serial killer books including the moors murders and Harold shipman but the one that really grossed me out was these two vile creatures. I’ve also read the James bulger book which is from his dads side of things and baby p the James bulger one made me sob and the baby p one was in my mind for days after. Another one that really fucked with my head was dahmer I couldn’t sleep for a week because it was constantly on my mind and I actually had nightmares from it!

'Strange because I can read serial killer books and watch dramas but something about this just freaks me out.'

Same here - I do have an interest in dark stuff but there's something about this case that I find really unbearable. I read a book about Rose West years ago - it gave me nightmares. I managed to finish it but I had to get it out of the house as soon as I was done

Oh no that's the one my fella had to take back

What the dahmer one? I also found the ted bundy and the gacy one super weird as well.