Bodies in the back garden
Subtitle: true stories of brutal murders close to home
By: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781782199861
Subjects: Murder victims; Death and burial; Dead; Abuse of; Murder; Case studies
Other titles: True stories of brutal murders close to home
Description: Overview:  There is one problem which every killer must face:  how to get rid of the body.  Murderer Dennis Nilsen famously cooked the corpses of his victims and flushed them down the toilet, only to be caught when the sewers blocked up.  But his first 12 victims were disposed of in the back garden of his previous home.  Fred and Rosemary West buried the bodies of three of their victims in the back garden.  Milwaukee cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer began his murderous career scattering human remains in the backyard of his parents' home in Bath, Ohio.  Convicted killer Peter Tobin went back on trial after two more bodies were found in the back garden of his former home.  And grisly granny Dorothea Puente murdered lodgers at her boarding house in Sacramento, California, dispatching them to the backyard while continuing to cash their Social Security checks.  This book explores these and many other cases that suggest that, whatever the motive for murder, the back garden is a convenient place to dump the corpse.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Corpse garden; title: Vegetable patch at Rillington place; title: Bonfires and beasties; title: Backyard cannibal; title: Back of the boarding house; title: Aussie rules; title: Macabre Margate; title: Head in the flower bed; title: Girlfriend's garden; title: Pusher under the patio; title: Block head; title: Family feud; title: Multi-faceted monster; title: Black widow; title: Ogre of the Ardennes; title: Dishonor killing; title: Not a rockery; title: House of death; title: Out with the bins; title: Cleveland strangler; title: Tiny bodies; title: Family plot; title: Ornamental garden.