Editing John Haigh (section)

==Marriage and imprisonment==
On 6 July 1934, Haigh married the 23-year-old Beatrice Hamer. The marriage soon fell apart. The same year Haigh was jailed for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud fraud], Betty gave birth while he was in prison but she gave the baby girl up for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption adoption] and left Haigh. Likewise, his conservative family ostracized him from that point onwards.

He then moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London] in 1936 and became chauffeur to William McSwan, the wealthy owner of amusement parlors. Additionally, he used his mechanical gifts to maintain McSwan's amusement machines. Following that he became a bogus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solicitor solicitor] and received a four-year jail sentence for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud fraud]. Haigh was released just after the start of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II] and, continuing as a fraudster, was sentenced to several terms of imprisonment.

While in prison he dreamed up what he considered the perfect murder of being able to destroy the body by dissolving it with sulphuric acid. He experimented with mice and found it took only 30 minutes for the body to disappear.