How an Ordinary Childhood Led to the Story of a Woman Behind a Notorious Case

For years, the ordinary-looking house at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester concealed crimes that would eventually become the subject of one of Britain’s most disturbing criminal investigations.

Fred and Rosemary “Rose” West raised a large family, took in lodgers, and appeared to many people around them to be living an unconventional but otherwise unremarkable domestic life. Behind that public appearance, however, children and young women were subjected to sustained abuse, and several victims were killed and secretly buried.