How a seemingly ordinary girl became one of the most evil women ever
Also, her father reportedly struggled with psychiatric issues, including paranoid schizophrenia. According to author Jane Carter-Woodrow, she was groomed and sexually abused by her father and may also have suffered abuse from her grandfather.
Meeting her future husband
The young woman in our story met her future husband at just 15 while waiting at a bus stop. He was 12 years her senior, divorced, and already a father.
Her husband’s past was equally troubled. He claimed to have suffered abuse as a child and endured multiple traumatic head injuries, which reportedly altered his personality.
By his teens, he had already committed serious crimes, including sexual assault, and even as a young adult, he continued a pattern of violence and manipulation.
Once the couple married in the early ’70s, their depravity escalated.
Their first child together was born in 1970, but the girl’s older siblings were not spared from abuse. Within months, the young mother committed her first murder, killing an 8-year-old girl in the household while her husband was in jail.
The child was buried beneath the kitchen window of their Gloucester home.
