Michael Morton: The killer architect

Entitled architect Michael Morton was too vain to believe any woman would ever want to leave him. When his wife did, she vanished without a trace. Morton, who was always known as ‘Joe’ studied mathematics at Cambridge University, eventually turning to architecture and qualifying in 1975, at the age of 37. He worked largely for what was then Greater London Council and the money and privilege he inherited from his wealthy parents was an immediate entree into rarified circles of…