Henry Zebrowski

The opening chapter is haunting in the book.

Yeah.

It's great.

Yeah.

And that book is supplemented by The Beast by John McShane and The Untouchable Jimmy Savile by Sean Atwood, as well as multiple articles and documentaries that exist about Jimmy Savile.

Not a single one.

No.

Not a single story came out about like an actual story.

Not a single one came out when Jimmy Savile was still alive.

Yeah.

And so, without further ado, let's get into the life of one of the UK's greatest monsters, the second head on our Mount Rushmore of evil, Sir Jimmy Savile.

So James Wilson Vincent Saville was born on what other day but Halloween 1926 in the industrial northern English city of Leeds.

Saville's family was Catholic, and as the youngest of seven children, five years younger than the Saville family's sixth child, Jimmy always referred to himself as the not-again child, unwanted and unexpected.

His father was Vince Saville, a butcher's assistant in the straight world who had a knack for numbers.

This made him exceptional at his real money-making endeavor, managing bets on horse races.

He was a black market bookie.

This was at a time when most gambling was still illegal in Britain.

From what we know from our coverage about Fred and Rose West and Peter Sutcliffe, Sutcliffe, by the way, he's going to make a couple of appearances later on in this story.

Great!

Northern England is indeed seedy as fuck.