The Monster of Worcester: The Gruesome Murders of David McGreavy
Warning: I have been covering true crime stories for over 6 years and I can attest to the depravity of this one. So please be aware that this story is extremely graphic, especially if you are more sensitive to hearing about the brutality of children.
On Friday the 13th of April 1973, an unspeakable horror unfolded on Gillam Street in Worcester, England. Clive and Elsie Ralph returned home from the pub where Elsie worked as a barmaid to find their house in utter chaos. Furniture was overturned, walls were dripping with blood, and their three young children — 4-year-old Paul, 2-year-old Dawn, and 9-month-old Samantha — were nowhere to be found. Neither was the family’s 21-year-old lodger and babysitter, David McGreavy.
A Horrific Discovery
Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Booth was called to the scene and described it as one of “indescribable horror.” An hour later, the grizzly fate of the Ralph children was revealed when a policeman’s lamp shone on the spiked railings of a neighbor’s garden fence. The mutilated bodies of the three children had been impaled there. The sight was so disturbing that one of the investigating officers became physically ill.
