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| The REAL John Haigh, AKA Corroder AKA Coco!; The history behind Corroder! | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 4 2008, 03:17:51 PM (120 Views) | |
| OtterVinn | Nov 4 2008, 03:17:51 PM Post #1 |
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>_> ...I nickname him Coco. Don't judge me! Anyway, yeah, as you find out in a file in the game, Corroder's real name is John Haigh, and he was related to Dorothy and Albert Rand (as a cousin), the two people he kills... he then pursues after Alyssa during Stage 2 of the game. Funny thing is, his modus operandi is exactly the same as a British serial killer from the 1940s, The Acid-Bath Murderer, whose real name was John Haigh, of course. Nice little joke that the localisers put in. :P I can see it now... ;) [Game Localiser and Criminologist are out for a coffee] GL: Dude, I'm having so much trouble translating the name of a serial-killer villain in this game I have to work on. Can you give me the name a real-life serial-killer? C: Hm? What does he use to kill people with? GL: Acid. C: John George Haigh. England, 1940s, common crook who killed people with acid and forged their insurance papers. Records say he killed 6 people, but he said he killed 9 before he was executed. There you go. ...Yeah. The real John Haigh was a common crook, who forged the insurance papers of the people he killed in order to get their money and their items. And he was a little bit misguided, thinking that the police would need a body in order to pursue an investigation. Here's some criminology history for you... Haigh didn't have the best childhood, as a member of a religious sect who refused to live in the outside world, and he claimed to have suffered religious nightmares throughout his childhood. He stole throughout his adulthood, first a cashbox from a mechanic, which he wasn't charged for, and acting as a phony solicitor. He was jailed for 4 years, and whilst serving time, he thought up the perfect murder – dissolving the body in sulphuric acid. He somehow got a hold of some whilst in prison, and experimented with it on a mouse. For mice, the acid would completely dissolve their bodies within 30 minutes. The first person he killed was a Mr. McSwan. Haigh met him because he was the son of a rich family he chaffeured for. He then met him again at a pub after a stint in prison. He went missing. Haigh told the McSwans that he had fled to Scotland to avoid service in the army. However, Haigh, in reality, had lured him to a basement in Gloucester Road, London (where he lived), and hit him over the head to render him unconscious, then stuffed his body into a 40-gallon oil-drum, and dumped sulphuric acid all over McSwan's body as an 'experiment'. It took 2 days for the body to disappear, and it turned into sludge... >.< which he poured down a sewer. Haigh started to live with the McSwans, then realised he'd have to get rid of the parents if he was to remain scot-free (...pardon the pun). Amy McSwan (the mother) was very suspiscious of Haigh, and when WW2 was coming to an end, she became even more curious when her son didn't come home. So, Haigh lured them to Gloucester Road, and disposed of them as usual. He forged their papers and cashed their pension cheques, which came to about £8,000 ($12,000). He then booked himself into the Onslow Court Hotel in Kensington, London. A year later, he found himself running low on money, and looked for another couple to rob and kill. He started to look for a place of his own, and found Dr. Archibald Henderson (OMG THAT'S MY LAST NAME AAARGH D: ) and his wife Rose. He pretended to show an interest in a house they were selling. A little while later, Haigh bought a small workshop in Crawley, West Sussex, and went about moving his acid drums from Gloucester Road. Pretending to be a young, single inventor, Haigh drove Dr. Henderson to the workshop to show him a 'new invention'. Haigh then shot the doctor in the head with a revolver he'd stolen from their house. Pretending that Dr. Henderson had fallen ill, he lured Mrs. Henderson there too, and killed her. He forged a will from them again, and sold their posessions for almost £8,000, but he seemed to have a soft spot for animals ( :P) because he kept their dog. His next victim (and his last) was a Miss Olive Durand-Deacon. By this time, Haigh was fronting himself as an engineer. He met Miss Durand-Deacon during his year-long stay at Onslow Court, and they got back in touch, and she proposed an idea for artificial fingernails. He invited her to the workshop, and shot her in the head, took all her valuables (including a Persian lamb coat), and put her in the acid bath. However, Miss Olive was reported missing a few days later by her friend. Detectives heard that Haigh was the last person seen with her, so they obtained a warrant to look around his workshop, and found a dry-cleaning receipt for Miss Olive's coat, human gallstones, and several documents referring to the Hendersons and the McSwans. Haigh was then arrested put on trial for the murders. He originally pleaded insanity. If the judge had seen him as mentally insane, he would have been sent to the Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. However, the prosecutor reminded the jury of Haigh's past, and argued that a murderer pleading insanity, claiming to be barely conscious of what s/he was doing at the time would not have acted with such malice and cunning to the victims just to get their material possessions. So, Haigh was sentenced to death. During the trial, his case was picked up by the media, who went crazy over it, with many books being published, and his case being a famous first-study in lots of Criminology classes. --- There we go, Coco's history revealed! I gleaned this information from the Wikipedia article, and from a book I have about various serial killers. ^^; I don't know what it is with me, I love reading about serial-killers. I'd like to do Criminology, but, at my college, you have to be a forensics student. So I have to go with the next-best option - Sociology, which I love. x3 By the way, it's surely a mystery what Coco looks like under the mask, no? Have no fear, I found a picture! o.0 Posted Image Hope you didn't fall asleep, lol. ^_^ |
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| enigmaopoeia | Nov 4 2008, 03:30:34 PM Post #2 |
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It's so weird that out of all of the serial killer's connections with the Subordinates, Corroder's story is almost 80% to 90% similar to John George Haigh's than the others. The whole thing that he prey upon the weak to scam them out of their monies, the acid bath, and the name alone. Makes me wonder why they chose Corroder to have the most similarities than the other Subordinates. You should do topics about Sledgehammer with Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, Chopper with Peter William Sutcliffe, and the Darkness Follower/Dark Gentleman with Jack the Ripper later! =D I would love to read them! |
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| OtterVinn | Nov 4 2008, 03:46:16 PM Post #3 |
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I do think that that is really cool! ^_^ I don't know if the case reached Japan or not in recent years while it was being developed, but, it is cool, and you know, you can always put your hand up in Criminology class when studying John Haigh, and say: "Uh... I've played a game where he's a bad guy who tries to kill you, it's called Clock Tower 3, it's awesome!" :P Hehe, duly noted! Glad you like my 'reports'. :P Perhaps I should make them a fortnightly event? xDDD |
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| Lime | Nov 4 2008, 03:53:51 PM Post #4 |
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Ahh! I read a bit about his life too. I also have a macabre interest in serial killers (though of the fictional variety, for the most part... I hope), mostly thanks to Clock Tower; in fact, Haigh's childhood reminds me of Ed Gein's, only Gein's managed to be worse. Very nice essay, thanks for sharing what you found out about him with us! Oh yeah, and his real name is the same as it was in the Japanese version; no localizers are to And oh man, that sucks that you have the same last name as two of the victims. xD;; |
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| OtterVinn | Nov 4 2008, 04:10:59 PM Post #5 |
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*reads up about Ed Gein* Wow. o.o He does sound pretty disturbed... You know something that made me chuckle, though? John Haigh's parents belonged to the church of the Plymouth Brethren. ^^ And I looked on Wikipedia just now and found that the church's list of 'famous people' includes John Haigh - serial killer, and David Hendricks, another murderer. xDDD Edited by OtterVinn, Nov 4 2008, 04:13:48 PM.
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| Lime | Nov 4 2008, 04:17:17 PM Post #6 |
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Oh yeah. I saw that on Wiki too! (Read up on Hendricks on there too, if I remember correctly. Didn't he murder his family?) You should know it's not good when your church is most famous for having killers. |
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| 123lealea | Nov 4 2008, 04:38:40 PM Post #7 |
 
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Nice job on Johnjohn McCoco! |
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