Talking With Psychopaths and Savages by Christopher Berry-Dee

Author:Christopher Berry-Dee [Christopher Berry-Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781789461152
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 2019-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

At 9.45 p.m. that evening, Detective Inspector George Gates confronted Heath and informed him: ‘I am now satisfied that you are Neville George Clevely Heath. I am going to detain you pending the arrival of officers of the Metropolitan Police,’ to which Heath murmured, ‘Oh, all right.’

Early the following day, Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector Reginald Spooner arrived in Bournemouth. On Monday, 8 July 1946, Heath was charged with the murder of Margery Gardner and taken back to London.

Branksome Dene Chine consists of about sixteen acres of steep wooded valleys, heathland and ridges adjacent to the beach just west, and a short stroll from Bournemouth. The day before Heath was charged with murder, a young woman called Kathleen Evans was walking her dog through the area during the evening when it started sniffing around rhododendron bushes, disturbing a cloud of flies. The following evening the same thing happened and she mentioned it to her father. The two of them returned to the spot and found a camel-hair ‘swagger’ coat; a type of woman’s coat first fashionable in the 1930s, three-quarter length and flaring out loosely from the shoulders. Three was also a black frock and some branches of fir trees. Underneath was the decomposing body of a woman. She was naked except for a left shoe.

The smell of death was dreadful.

Police were quickly on the scene and they found a broken string of twenty-seven artificial pearls. A powder compact and stockings were some distance away and an empty handbag was found at the bottom of the chine close to the beach. Branksome Dene Chine had given up the body of Doreen Marshall. The artificial pearls on broken string would match exactly the one discovered in Heath’s jack pocket.

All of this clearly shows how incompetent so many serial killers can be. Heath had committed the two most dreadful disorganised murders one can imagine. He had concocted what he imagined to be plausible accounts of his innocence yet both stories would take him straight to the gallows.

At autopsy, pathologist Dr Crichten McGaffey’s report stated that Doreen’s throat had been cut. In places the cut was three-quarters of an inch deep, and this proved to be the cause of her death. There were bruises on the back of head and the left temple. These had been caused while she was still alive and desperately fighting for her life because there were defensive knife wounds on her hands before she had been subdued and her wrists pinioned behind her back. However, the injuries inflicted by Heath after death were even more horrific. Her right nipple had been bitten off and there were jagged cuts the length of the torso in the form of a ‘Y’ and an ‘A’.

Heath showed a complete indifference to his fate. Wearing a grey chalk-stripe suit, he was sitting calmly in the condemned cell when Albert Pierrepoint, the public executioner who hanged Christie, arrived. The execution log records that Heath stoically remarked, ‘Come on, boys, let’s get on with it.’ He

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