I take it all back....Oh my, how could I forget Rosemary and Fred West.....*shudder*....Lord knows why I forgot them. I think that we Brits like to forget these horrible people (like Shipman, Huntley, Hyndley, Brady et al). Yes they did kill their own daughter but you have to admit its not quite the same as the Routiers. The wests killed and buried their own daughter under the floor of the house/in the garden with a shed load of other poor young girls. They never lead an ordinary life as a couple like the Routiers. We never know what goes on behind closed doors but there wasnt a queue of people lining up to give positive character statements about the Wests at their trial.
Gawd, thats made me feel quite ill recalling the Wests.....like Shipman, Fred West the coward killed himself in jail. I dont believe in the death penalty but those two sure do test ones convictions.
If you must know more
http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/fredwest1.shtml