Who is Jimmy Savile - Britain's most prolific sex offender?

In April of 2022 Netflix released a docuseries titled "Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story". If you are unfamiliar with who Jimmy Savile is, here's everything you need to know about the man called "Britain's most prolific sex offender".

In the early 1940's Savile began playing records at dance halls and hotels. He claims to have been the world's first DJ, as his autobiography states he had a two turn table and microphone set up in 1947 to play at the Grand Records Ball.

Savile grew popular on the teen dance scene and was eventually discovered by a music executive from Decca Records. He then went on to become one of Britain's most popular radio DJs from 1958-1968. He later began hosting music television programs, public info films and more.

Savile hosted the BBC show "Jim'll Fix It" - from 1975-1994. He also appeared on the show "Big Brother" in 2006. Throughout his radio and television career, however, were rumors of his potential sexual misconduct. These became more pronounced after his death in 2011.

The first allegations against Savile were in 1963. From the 1970's through the 1990's people like John Lydon of the Sex Pistols and Lynn Barber of The Independent publicly alluded to rumors of Savile's sexual misconduct and "liking little girls" but these were mostly ignored.

In 2007, police investigated Savile for an allegation of indecent assault in the 1970s at Duncroft Approved School for Girls where he regularly visited. Savile also faced allegations of child abuse at a children's home in Jersey called Haut de la Garenne.

Prior to his death in 2011, all allegations against Savile were deemed to have insufficient evidence for prosecution. However in 2012, ITV released a documentary titled The Other Side of Jimmy Savile which revealed that up to 10 women reported being molested by JImmy Savile.

Further, Savile's relationship with the BBC Network seemed to point to a cover up, as the allegations of his misconduct were never brought to the public. In fact, BBC Newsnight investigated allegations against Savile, but withdrew the interviews and never made them public.

By November of 2012 police report Savile had as many as 450 potential victims. 82% of the reports were from females, and 80% of them were children at the time of the incidents. There were also reports of necrophiliac acts with corpses from the Leeds General Mortuary.

Even with over 200 recordings of the offenses, and reports to 28 different police forces, somehow the allegations were all kept largely hidden until 2012. After the BBC and other networks finally publicized the reports, many signs, statues and orgs removed Savile's name.