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271: The Acid Bath Murderer w/ Gordon Lowe - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

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Getting the Law Wrong

The only slip Hake had made was on the note paper of these supposed solicitors to spell the name of the city wrong. It was Guilford, which is a rather beautiful city in southern England. But he'd left the D out of Guilford to slip. And that of course made clients suspicious. What is this supposedly well-educated solicitor doing misspelling the name of his own city? So the police at that stage move in and find he's acting as a fraud and he goes to prison. He then comes up with an idea: If you're going to get murder anyone, you've got to get rid of a body. And what about putting them in acid and

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