When the Police first knocked at 25 Cromwell Street looking for Heather West what they found there hadn’t been seen since the case of John Christie and 10 Rillington Place in 1953. The police had gone looking for Heather West’s remains after she hadn’t been seen for quite some years and some of her siblings, who were in care, had joked to social workers about Heather being ‘buried under the patio’. What they eventually discovered was a case of abuse, rape, abduction and mass murder dating back to 1966, with bodies being found in the cellar, the garden, and at two further sites. Speculation remains as to exactly how many women and children Fred and Rose West killed, and when they first started. It is a fact that Fred had already killed before he met Rose, although Fred denied that right up until his suicide in 1995. When he was arrested, and the first body was found in the garden of his home, he admitted to the killing but told the police that he had acted alone and that Rose had known nothing. He kept this stance on each subsequent discovery of a body, right up until Rose blanked him at a joint court appearance in July 1994. Then it was all Rose’s fault and he knew nothing about the murders. After Fred’s suicide in 1995, the police had to shift all of their efforts in to getting the case against Rosemary to court. After all, there was no physical evidence to link her to any of the murders. The police were unable to say how the victims were killed. All they could say for certain was that they had been decapitated, had their legs disarticulated at the hips and that they all had bones that were missing. Most were discovered with masks and restraints in the graves alongside them, indicating that torture and acts of sadomasochism had taken place before the girls were killed. The police had to prove that Rosemary West alone was responsible for killing her step-daughter Charmaine and getting the court to agree to allow ‘similar fact’ evidence to be heard in the case. Rosemary West had said very little in her police interviews and denied all knowledge of how the bodies came to be in her basement and garden. To this day she still denies murdering anybody. In writing this book, my aim has been to give a full account of what is known to have taken place through the life of both Rosemary and Fred West. From early childhood, to love, to murder, to death, and through to the present day. I have given you, the reader, the opportunity to hear them in their own words as much as possible to allow you access to their minds. You will hear from police, family and friends of both the Wests and the victims in their own words to help you understand the pain caused by these acts.