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Feb 10, 2021 · Fifty years ago this week, a film about serial killer John Christie was released starring Richard Attenborough. It still sets the standard for true-crime drama, writes Adam Scovell.
That's because John Reginald Halliday Christie – the quiet-mouthed Yorkshireman played by Tim Roth – was one of the UK’s most prolific serial killers of the 20th Century,...
Jun 26, 2012 · John Reginald Halliday Christie was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey tonight for the murder of his wife.
John Reginald Halliday Christie, nicknamed "Reg" by acquaintances, was an English serial killer and alleged necrophiliac active during the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight people—including his wife Ethel—by strangling them inside his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London.
Nov 29, 2016 · Who was John Christie? Born in 1898, Christie graduated from petty theft to serving prison sentences for violent crimes including assault before securing his place as one of the UK’s most...
Mar 26, 2013 · When Christie was tried at the Old Bailey for killing his wife he also admitted to murdering six other victims. His defence of insanity was dismissed by the jury and he was sentenced to death by...
1928 – John Christie commits his first violent crime that we know of. He briefly moves in with Mrs Maud Claude (and her schoolboy son), but the two began to argue after Christie refused to get a...
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