Sept. 14, 2024
The Dark History of 10 Rillington Place: John Christie's Reign of Terror
The Dark History of 10 Rillington Place: John Christie's Reign of Terror
In this episode, we dive into the eerie and unsettling history of 10 Rillington Place, home to one of the most disturbing serial killers in British history—John Reginald...
The Dark History of 10 Rillington Place: John Christie's Reign of Terror
In this episode, we dive into the eerie and unsettling history of 10 Rillington Place, home to one of the most disturbing serial killers in British history—John Reginald Christie. From the desolate post-war streets of Notting Hill to the dark secrets buried beneath the garden, Christie’s reign of terror is one for the books. We’ll explore how this seemingly ordinary man turned his life of failures, lies, and violence into a chilling tale of murder and manipulation, leaving innocent victims like Beryl Evans and her baby in his wake. Join us as we unravel the twisted mind behind the monster of Rillington Place.
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In this episode, we dive into the eerie and unsettling history of 10 Rillington Place, home to one of the most disturbing serial killers in British history—John Reginald Christie. From the desolate post-war streets of Notting Hill to the dark secrets buried beneath the garden, Christie’s reign of terror is one for the books. We’ll explore how this seemingly ordinary man turned his life of failures, lies, and violence into a chilling tale of murder and manipulation, leaving innocent victims like Beryl Evans and her baby in his wake. Join us as we unravel the twisted mind behind the monster of Rillington Place.
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Derelict, desolate and still ravaged from the constant raids and
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bombings of the World Wars. Number ten Rillington Place was
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a desperate home for desperate people. Jutting out from the
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war torn street of notting Hill in London. Rubble refuse
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and even human remains were a common sight for those
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unfortunate enough to call this three story house home. Each
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floor had been broken up into a separate apartment, with
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no bathrooms and only a common outhouse at the end
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of the garden. There was nowhere for people to wash,
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and for those on the third floor there wasn't even
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a kitchen. This would be the homestead of one of
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the most disturbing serial killers Britain has ever known. His
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name was John Reginald Halliday Christie, although he often went
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by Reggie. He was born on April eighth, eighteen ninety
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nine in Halifax and was the sixth out of seven children.
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His father, Ernest John Christie, was a strict disciplinarian who
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didn't believe in showing his wife or his children affection.
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Growing up, punishments and beatings were in no short supply
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for John Christie, but strangely enough, the same could also
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be said for loving attention. John's mother and his older
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sisters absolutely adored him and overcompensated for the punishments his
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father would dole out by doing their best to spoil John.
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It was a confusing and troubling home to grow up in,
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but by his own admission, the defining moment of John's
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childhood had been the death of his maternal grandfather, David Halliday.
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David had been a contemptuous man, even quicker to anger
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than John's father, Ernest. John had once been completely terrified
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of him, But after watching David slowly deteriorate and eventually
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die from being ill, John was in heaven. The man
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he had so greatly feared his whole life was dead,
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and there was John, young, fit and healthy, and he
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had never felt better about himself. John then turned his
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attention to academics. He won a scholarship to attend a
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private school, and then one to go to a boarding school,
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where he sang in the church choir and was a
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boy scout, a literal boy scout, but socially John was
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an outcast. Former classmates described him as quote a queer
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lad who kept to himself and was not very popular.
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This was unfortunately, how many people would see John for
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the rest of his life. But things only became worse
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when John tried to get a girlfriend. He had very
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little success with the ladies, and the girls who did
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end up giving him a chance usually ended up breaking
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up with him shortly afterward. This was all allegedly because
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John had difficulties sexually performing, and once news about this
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got out, his peers began calling him things like Reggie,
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no dick, and can't do it, christy and already psychologically delicate.
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Young man was then drafted into the army to go
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and fight in the First World War. He saw combat,
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but in June nineteen eighteen, he was critically injured in
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a mustard gas attack. John later said that even after
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months of treatment, he was still left blind and mute
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for three and a half years. However, records show that
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John was released from the hospital and sent back to
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the front lines. It's highly unlikely that a soldier who
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was both blind and mute would be allowed back into
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combat and not discharged for the military, so we should
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take these claims by John with a pinch of salt.
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He did, however, return to Halifax in nineteen nineteen, where
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he met eighteen year old Ethel Simpson. People who knew
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Ethyl around the nineteen twenties and the nineteen thirties described
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her as a refined, well bred, and educated young woman
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who was extremely attractive. She was a talented shorthand typist,
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and she often found work as a secretary wherever she went.
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This was the woman that John married in nineteen twenty,
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but only a few years into their marriage, people began
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describing Ethel as meek, unattractive, and someone who seemed to
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have a desperate need for male attention. Part of the
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shift in their marriage had come from a tragic loss
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the young couple experienced very early on, when Ethel suffered
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a miscarriage. This traumatic event seemed to drive a wedge
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between husband and wife. After that, John returned to an
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old soliciting prostitutes, but when the brief excitement that provided
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lost its appeal, he began stealing. John was later caught
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in the act and arrested. He was sentenced to three
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months in prison. Far from being deterred after his stint
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in prison, John was convicted again in nineteen twenty three,
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this time for obtaining money under false pretenses and under
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the threat of violence. Up until then, Ethel had stood
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by her wayward husband, but when he was released and
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moved to London, instead of coming home, she went her
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own way to There were rumors to explain why Ethel
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didn't follow her husband, and they said that Ethel was
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having an affair with her employer, but people who knew
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the couple at the time didn't put much weight into
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the gossip. Instead, they pointed the finger at John, at
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his life of crime, at his constant solicitation of prostitutes,
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and the rumors that he had stolen from his very
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own parents as the reason why the couple had parted way.
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On paper and in the eyes of the law, the
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Christies were still married, but they wouldn't actually see each
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other again for another ten years. Despite his history, John
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joined the Royal Air Force and Ethel went to live
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with her family. During the years, John was in and
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out of prison and buried thick in a life of crime,
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but Ethel was desperately trying to rebuild her life with
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a man who loved her. His name was Vaughan Brindley
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and he had two goals in life. The first was
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to become financially stable enough to support a family and
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The second was to marry Ethel Christie. But when Vaughan
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stood on Ethel's doorstep proposing to her in nineteen thirty two,
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she had to come clean. She had told them that
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her husband, John had died in the war, but as
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we all know, he was very much alive and living
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in London. Ethel would first have to find him and
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then get him to agree to a divorce if she
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were to ever marry Vaughan. But the second piece of
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news she had to break to the man standing in
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her front doorstep had the potential to be a real
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deal breaker. Ethel discovered that she was unable to have children.
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The news destroyed Vaughan, who then called off their whole
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relationship and he left Ethel with her dreams. Also now crushed,
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Ethel caught wind of John's latest arrest and went to
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visit him in prison. There, between cold metal prison bars,
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husband and wife saw each other again for the first
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time in over a decade. A tentative truce was formed,
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one where John promised to forego his life of crime,
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and where Ethel agreed to leave the peaceful and beautiful
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homes she shared with her family in Halifax and move
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back in with John. She can't have been overly impressed
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by the destitute streets of Willington Place, and even less
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so with the condition of the apartment she was now
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to live in, but it was a fresh start. She
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and John occupied the ground floor, which gave them direct
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access to the garden, and the Christies found a new
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lease on life. John kept his promise and found steady work,
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and Ethel was able to catch the train to visit
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her family in Sheffield whenever she wanted. John would use
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the time Ethel took to see her family two solicit prostitutes,
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but this time it seemed like Ethel was at least
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aware of what he was doing. But what she wasn't
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aware of is what happened in nineteen forty three when
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John brought home the twenty one year old Ruth. First,
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Ruth wasn't to prostitute per se, but worked in a
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factory and resorted to prostitution when she couldn't make ends meet.
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She'd met John at a bar and had agreed to
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sleep with him back at his apartment in number ten
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Rillington Place. There, however, in the throes of passion, John
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tied a rope around Ruth's neck and strangled her to death.
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He then buried her under the floorboards in the kitchen
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and used the cover of darkness the following night to
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bury her in the communal back garden. In nineteen forty four,
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he brought home one of his colleagues from work. Thirty
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one year old Muriel Amelia Edie, suffered from bronchitis, and
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John claimed that he had the perfect cure. Put a
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mixture of pungent things into a jar, inserted a tube,
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and told Muriel that all she had to do was
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breathe in through the tube. Muriel listened, but she didn't
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see that John inserted another tube into the jar that
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connected to the gas pipe in the kitchen. Muriel went
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out cold. John then sexually assaulted her several times before
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he strangled her to death. He buried her outside beside Ruth.
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In the meantime, the new neighbors had moved in upstairs.
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They were both young, both suffered from learning disabilities, and
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had just had a baby. Timothy Evans was said to
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be an insecure young man with a wild imagination. He
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often told stories about himself that made him seem brighter
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and more exciting than he actually was, but the truth
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was he had an IQ of only about seventy. He
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often drank most of his wages away, leaving his eighteen
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year old wife, Beryl with little to feed herself and
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the baby. Beryl also struggled with numbers, and whenever the
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money ran out, Timothy would beat her. John often went
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upstairs to break up the fights between them, and he
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was there again when the couple found out that they
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were pregnant with their second child. With things being as
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tight as they were, Beryl wanted an abortion, but they
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were illegal in Britain at the time. Desperate, the young
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couple turned to John, and John told them that he
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could perform the procedure for them. During Ethel's next trip
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to Sheffield to see her family, Beryl made her way
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downstairs to John's flat, and that was the last time
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her husband Timothy ever saw her alive. Later that evening,
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when Timothy went down to check on her, John blocked
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the door to the apartment and told Timothy that Beryl
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was dead. He then convinced Timothy to leave town and
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leave his young daughter, Geraldine behind two Timothy listened, but
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a short time later, back in his hometown in Wales,
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Timothy handed himself in to the police and told them
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that he had accidentally killed Beryl. He said that he
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had accidentally poisoned her when trying to abort the baby,
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and that he had put her body in the drain
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outside of the house. The police investigated his claim and
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found John at home in Rillington Place, but that was
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about all they did find. They didn't find Beryl, her daughter, Geraldine, Muriel,
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or Ruth. They searched the property again on December eighth.
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This time the bodies of Beryl, Geraldine, and a sixteen
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week old fetus were discovered in the outhouse back in
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the yard. An autopsy revealed that both Beryl and Geraldine
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died from strangulation. It was then that Timothy found out
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that Geraldine was also dead, and when asked if he
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was the one responsible for their deaths, he simply replied yes.
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Timothy was then taken to court, and the star witness
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against him was none other than John Christie himself. Timothy
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was found guilty of murdering his wife and daughter and
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it was sentenced to hang on the thirty first of January. Meanwhile,
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at number ten Rllington Place, the Christie's had a new
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upstairs neighbor, but John and Ethel both obviously hated them.
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They were a family of immigrants from the West Indies,
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and neither of the Christies were very happy about having
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black neighbors. On December sixth, nineteen fifty two, John then
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used the excuse of having these neighbors to do something
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completely despicable. In his own words, quote, my wife has
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been suffering a great deal from persecution and assaults from
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the black people in the house number ten Rillington Place,
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and had to undergo treatment at the doctor for nerves.
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On fourteen December, I was awakened by my wife moving
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about in bed. I sat up and saw that she
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had appeared to be convulsive. Her face was blue and
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she was choking. I did what I could to try
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to restore breathing, but it was hopeless. It appeared to
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be too late to call for assistance. That's when I
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couldn't bear to see her, so I got a stocking
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and didn't know what to do. Then I remembered some
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loose floorboards in the front room that I believe I
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went back and put her in a blanket or a
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sheet or something, and tried to carry her, but she
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was too heavy, so I had to sort of half
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way carry, half drag her and put her in that
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depression and cover her up with earth. I thought it
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was the best way to lay her to rest. On
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January nineteenth, nineteen fifty three, John brought home a twenty
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five year old Rita Nelson, another prostitute from Belfast, who
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was pregnant. John told her that he could perform an
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abortion for her, and Rita agreed to go back with
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him to his apartment. She inhaled gas from a jar,
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not knowing that John was pumping gas from the stove
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into it as well. He then repeatedly assaulted her Before
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he strangled her to death. He wrapped her in a
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blanket and hid her in an alcove in the kitchen,
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which he covered with wallpaper. In February of that same year,
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John brought Kathleen Maloney, a twenty six year old prostitute
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from Ladbrook, back to his apartment. He raped, strangled her,
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and hid her body in the same alcove. About a
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month later, he struck again. This time he targeted twenty
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six year old Hectorina mcclennan, who was actually a former roommate.
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months at Willington Place, and she didn't think anything of
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being invited back to the same house. After bumping into
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John on the streets there, she received the same treatment
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