Episode 029: Fred and Rosemary West, Part 6
on May 13, 2011 in Podcast Episodes, Serial Killers by Brian CombsLast week, Fred and Rose had finally met. A child-care relationship had become a sexual one, just as it had with Anna McFall earlier. Rose’s father, Bill, had found out about the relationship between his 15 year old daughter and a man 12 years her senior, and had informed Social Services.
Social Services, in turn, had recommended that Rose be placed in foster care.
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Sources:
“Fred & Rose” by Howard Sounes
“Fred & Rose West” by Marilyn Bardsley on TruTv.com
“Serial Killers & Mass Murderers: Profiles of the World’s Most Barbaric Criminals” by Nigel Cawthorne
“The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Second Edition” by Michael Newton
“Serial Murder and the Psychology of a Sexual Sadist: Frederick West” by Steven Morris in the September 9, 2007 issue of New Criminologist
I am admiring and appreciative of all the work that went into your Fred & Rose West episodes. However, I tend to regard Rosemary more as a blank state. If Fred West had made the acquaintance of a young Mother Teresa, he could have fashioned her into as much of a murderer as Rose.
I agree that Fred was more guilty. With or without Rose, he was going to kill (and did). Without Fred, Rose probably wouldn’t have been anything worse than a prostitute.
Still, she was still culpable for her actions. She was violent and sadistic on her own. Fred just focused it and brought out the worst in her.