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John Reginald Haliday Christie |
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April 1899 |
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8 + |
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August 1943 - 1953 |
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10,
Rillington Place, London. |
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Status: |
Married / Widowed |
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Occupation: |
Special PC |
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Victim: |
Ruth Furest, 21
Murial Eady, 32
Beryl Evans, 20
Geraldine Evans, baby
Ethel Christie, 54
Kathleen Maloney, 26
Rita Nelson 24
Hectorina
McLennan, 26 |
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FACTFILE
John
Reginald Haliday Christie, an ex-special constable, was a sex killer
and psychopath. He gained his sexual gratification through rape,
murder, and necrophilia. He would make his victims unconscious, and
then strangle them while performing necrophilia. He actually admitted
strangling one of his victims during intercourse. Although, baby
Geraldine Evans was clearly disposed of as a screaming baby, who,
without a mother would arouse suspicion. In the 1940s and 1950s this
man killed at least five prostitutes, his wife, a female lodger and her
baby daughter. He also kept a collection of clipped pubic hairs, some
of which did not match any of his known victims. Christie was not a
popular man, seemingly respectable but not liked. As a teenager he had
been nicknamed "Reggie No Dick" because of his sexual inadequacy.
1949 the top floor flat at 10, Rillington
Place was empty, the new lodgers were Timothy John Evans, a 24 year old
van driver, and his wife Beryl (20), and their baby daughter Geraldine.
On 30th November 1949 Timothy Evans was in Wales, he walked into a
police station and confessed to putting his wife's dead body down a
drain. After a search at Rillington place police found not only Beryl,
but, also baby Geraldine, Evans was arrested, then changing his story
and accusing Christie of the gruesome murders. Christie was the chief
prosecution witness at the murder trial of Evans, he denied any
knowledge of the deaths of Beryl and the baby. Evans was found guilty,
and hanged on 9th March 1950.
Two years after the Evans' events Christie
killed his wife in December 1952, and buried her under the floorboards
of his ground floor flat. In January 1953 he killed two prostitutes,
and in April another. Christie left 10, Rillington place leaving the
new occupier to trace the origins of the awful smell in the flat. After
investigations by Mr. Brown (the new tenant) police, and a pathologist,
the kitchen cupboard was found to contain the human remain of three
women. Under the floor was Mrs. Christie, and in the garden two further
bodies.
31st March 1953, John Reginald Haliday Christie
was arrested.
While in custody Christie made detailed confessions
to six of the killings. Confessing to the murder of Beryl Evans at his
trial, he continued to deny the murder of baby Geraldine Evans. His
plea of not guilty on the grounds of insanity was rejected.
15th July 1953, He was
hanged in Pentonville prison by
18th October 1966 justice was
finally done when Timothy Evans was granted a posthumous pardon !
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