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He is also well known as an expert on family history and has written several introductory books on the subject including Tracing Your London Ancestors, Tracing Your Ancestors From to and Tracing Villains and Their Victims. Convert currency. Add to Basket. Book Description Wharncliffe, Condition: new. Seller Inventory More information about this seller Contact this seller. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to one of the most sensational, shocking and controversial serial murder cases in British criminal history - the case of John Christie. Much has been written about the Christie killings and the fate of who was executed for murders Christie later confessed to - the story still provokes strong feeling and speculation. So a painstaking, scholarly reassessment of the evidence - and of Christie's life - is overdue, and that is what Jonathan Oates provides in this gripping biography of a serial killer. Seller Inventory FOY Seller Inventory M Condition: Brand New. In Stock. Seller Inventory zk Oates, Jonathan. Publisher: Wharncliffe , This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. First edition. An important documented account of the most horrifying and controversial murders - from the trials of John Christie and Timothy Evans. From this House of Horror, they carried the bodies of 7 women and a child. Two men were to hang for these murders - two men who names are now numbered among the most infamous in British criminal history. With Appendices and Bibliog. With the usual browned pp. More information about this seller Contact this seller 9. Published by Mondadori About this Item: Mondadori, Condition: molto buono. Rupert Furneaux, N. Prima edizione. Pagine Collana Presadiretta n. Volume in buono stato con bruniture e abrasioni alla sovraccoperta. Seller Inventory so More information about this seller Contact this seller Published by Little Brown and Company. London About this Item: Little Brown and Company. London, Lovely clean copy in slightly shelf worn wrapper. Scarce title as a direct result of threatened legal action by . Published by Little, Brown About this Item: Little, Brown, Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardback, 1st edn. It seems impossible that two stranglers of women could both live in the same house, yet this is what the author maintains happened in Notting Hill in John Reginald Halliday Christie was already a murderer, with a score of at least 2, when Timothy John Evans, much younger, and on the edge of idiocy, came to live with his wife at 10 Rillington Place. Christie is supposed to have framed Evans over the killing of his wife and baby daughter, and was even the principal Crown witness against Evans. The author challenges Timothy Evans' innocence to claim that Evans was guilty of the murders. With careful research the author highlights inaccuracies in previous accounts of the case and builds a convincing and controversial argument. However, as a direct result of threatened legal action by Ludovic Kennedy which was settled out of court , this first edition of the book was withdrawn from sale, which now makes it an extremely scarce title. Review copy with loosely inserted slip. A lovely F. Dust Jacket. Original publisher's black cloth lettered gilt on spine. Blue and white illustrated dust jacket lettered yellow, red and white on spine and upper cover. Ian Gilmour's copy with his ownership inscription on front pastedown endpaper and his pencil comments, underlining and markings in the text. What a horrible fellow J. As you say, one longs to know what went on in the Eddowes household before Michael's death. Two typewritten copies of Gilmour's review one with a couple of corrections in his hand accompanied by a photocopy of it taken from the Daily Telegraph. Three newspaper reviews, a four page photocopy of a review and a flyer for the book. Michael H. Eddowes lawyer, author and investigator and father of the author wrote a book entitled 'The Man on Your Conscience' in which he claimed Evans was innocent and that John Christie was responsible for the murders of both Evans' wife and child. Timothy Evans who was hanged for the murder of his daughter was subsequently pardoned and Ludovic Kennedy wrote a book citing Evans' fate as one of the first miscarriages of justice. John Eddowes regarded his father's views as those of a fantasist and a liar and set out in his book to prove him and others such as Ludovic Kennedy wrong, arguing that Evans was guilty of both murders. Very good. Seller Inventory C Published by Columbia, London About this Item: Columbia, London, A four page promotional for the film. Front page of the Daily Express March 28 etc. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; Inventory No: Published by Wharncliffe True Crime, Barnsley Published by Barnsley Wharncliffe True Crime Signed First Edition: Hardback, black bds. Published by Marshall Cavendish About this Item: Marshall Cavendish, Magazine format. Investigations into the ultimate crime. The Rillington Place Murders. John Christie: the killer who allowed another man to be sent to the gallows in his place. Magazine partwork. With tiny biro price to fr. Published by Gollancz. About this Item: Gollancz. A controversial and infamous murder story. In a man called Timothy John Evans was hanged for the murder of his child, whose body, together with that of its mother, Beryl Evans, had been found strangled in the wash-house of 10 Rillington Place, London. Fours years later, 4 more bodies were found. Pen and Sword Books: John Christie of Rillington Place - ePub

He is also well known as an expert on family history and has written several introductory books on the subject including Tracing Your London Ancestors, Tracing Your Ancestors From to and Tracing Villains and Their Victims. Convert currency. Add to Basket. Book Description Wharncliffe, Condition: new. Seller Inventory More information about this seller Contact this seller. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to one of the most sensational, shocking and controversial serial murder cases in British criminal history - the case of John Christie. Much has been written about the Christie killings and the fate of Timothy Evans who was executed for murders Christie later confessed to - the story still provokes strong feeling and speculation. So a painstaking, scholarly reassessment of the evidence - and of Christie's life - is overdue, and that is what Jonathan Oates provides in this gripping biography of a serial killer. Seller Inventory FOY Seller Inventory M Condition: Brand New. In Stock. Seller Inventory zk Oates, Jonathan. Publisher: Wharncliffe , This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Once Eady was seated breathing the mixture from the tube with her back turned, Christie inserted a second tube into the jar connected to a gas tap. The wash-house where the bodies of Beryl and Geraldine Evans were found is the building with the light-coloured roof situated farthest from the main house. During Easter of Timothy Evans and his wife Beryl moved into the top floor flat at Rillington Place, where Beryl gave birth to their daughter, Geraldine, in October In late Evans informed police that his wife was dead. Beryl's body had been wrapped twice over in a blanket and then a table cloth. The autopsy revealed that both had been strangled, and that Beryl Evans had been physically assaulted before her death, judging by the bruises on her face. The alleged confession may have been fabricated by the police themselves, as the statement appears contrived and artificial. The police made many mistakes in the handling of the case, especially overlooking the remains of previous murders left in the garden at Rillington Place: one femur was later to be found propping up a fence, for example. The garden at the house was very small about 16 by 14 feet , and the fence was next to the wash-house where the bodies of Beryl and Geraldine were found later. Several searches were made at the house after Evans confessed to putting his wife in the drains, but the wash-house was not entered at any point by the three policemen involved. The garden was apparently examined yet all the searches missed the visible bones. Christie later admitted that his dog had unearthed a human skull in the garden shortly after the police searches, which he removed and left in a nearby bombed-out house. There was clearly no systematic search made of the crime scene in which this or other human remains would have been found, and pointed to Christie as the perpetrator. The skull was found and handed in to Notting Hill police station during the investigation, but ignored. The evidence of builders working at the house was ignored, and their various interviews with Evans suggest that the police concocted a false confession. It should have been clear, for example, from the very first statement made in Wales that Evans was totally unaware of the resting place of the body of his wife, or how she had been killed. He claimed that his wife's body was in a drain at the front of the house, but a police search failed to find any remains there. That in itself should have prompted a thorough search of the house, wash-room and garden, but no further action was taken until later, when the two bodies were found in the wash-room outside. Evans was also totally unaware at his first interview, that his daughter had been killed. The police interrogation in London was mishandled from the start, when they showed him the clothes of his wife and baby and revealed that they had been found in the wash-room. Such information should have been kept from him so as to force him to tell them where the bodies had been concealed. The several "confessions" apparently made by Evans bear no relation to what he probably said, and were inventions made by the police, as Ludovic Kennedy pointed out much later, when the truth about Christie finally emerged. The police accepted all of Christie's statements as factual without probing further and he was the crucial witness at the trial of Evans. Bearing in mind Christie had criminal convictions for theft and malicious wounding which Evans didn't , the reliance on his testimony was questionable to say the least. Nearly three years passed without major incident for Christie after Evans' trial. Christie lost his job at the Post Office Savings Bank because his criminal past had been disclosed in the trial, but he found alternative employment as a clerk with the British Road Services at their Shepherd's Bush depot. The tenants were black immigrants from the West Indies , which horrified the Christies, who regarded their neighbours as inferior and despised living with them. She had last been seen in public two days earlier. In reply to a letter from relatives in Sheffield, he wrote that Ethel had rheumatism and could not write herself; to one neighbour, he explained that she was visiting her relatives in Sheffield; to another, he said that she had gone to Birmingham. To support himself, Christie sold Ethel's wedding ring, watch and furniture. Every week he went to the Labour Exchange to collect his unemployment benefit. Maloney was a prostitute from the Ladbroke Grove area. Nelson was from Belfast and was visiting her sister in Ladbroke Grove when she met Christie. All three met on several occasions after this, and Christie let MacLennan and Baker stay at Rillington Place while they were looking for accommodation. Later, he convinced Baker, who came to Rillington Place looking for her, that he had not seen MacLennan. Christie kept up the pretence for several days, meeting Baker regularly to see if he had news of her whereabouts and to help him search for her. For the murders of his final three victims, Christie modified the gassing technique he had first used on Muriel Eady; he simply used a rubber tube connected to the gas pipe in the kitchen which he kept closed off with a bulldog clip. The Brabin Report pointed out that Christie's explanation of his gassing technique was not satisfactory because he would have been overpowered by the gas as well. Nevertheless, it was established that all three victims had been exposed to carbon monoxide. As with Eady, Christie raped his last three victims while they were unconscious and continued to do so as they died. When this aspect of his crimes was publicly revealed, Christie quickly gained a reputation for being a necrophiliac. The landlord visited that same evening and, finding the couple there instead of Christie, demanded that they leave first thing the next morning. After he left Rillington Place, Christie went to a Rowton House in King's Cross , where he booked a room for seven nights under his real name and address. While in custody, Christie confessed to seven murders: the three women found in the kitchen alcove, his wife, and the two women buried in the back garden. He also admitted being responsible for the murder of Beryl Evans, which Timothy Evans had originally been charged with during the police investigation in , although he denied killing Geraldine Evans. Christie was tried only for the murder of his wife Ethel. Pierrepoint assured him that "It won't bother you for long". After Christie's conviction there was substantial controversy concerning the earlier trial of Evans, who had been convicted mainly on the evidence of a serial killer living in the same property in which Evans had allegedly carried out his crimes. The controversy prompted the then Home Secretary, David Maxwell-Fyfe , to commission an inquiry led by John Scott Henderson, QC, the Recorder of Portsmouth, to determine whether Evans had been innocent of his crimes and if a miscarriage of justice had occurred. Scott Henderson interviewed Christie before his execution, as well as another twenty witnesses who had been involved in either of the police investigations. He concluded that Evans was in fact guilty of both murders and that Christie's confessions to the murder of Beryl Evans were unreliable and made in the context of furthering his own defence that he was insane. Far from ending the matter, questions continued to be raised in Parliament concerning Evans' innocence, [64] [65] along with newspaper campaigns and books being published making similar claims. This uncertainty led to a second inquiry, chaired by High Court judge, Sir Daniel Brabin , which was conducted over the winter of — Brabin re- examined much of the evidence from both cases and evaluated some of the arguments for Evans' innocence. His conclusions were that it was "more probable than not" that Evans had killed his wife but not his daughter Geraldine, for whose death Christie was responsible. Christie's likely motive was that her continued presence would have drawn attention to Beryl's disappearance. There was already debate in the United Kingdom over the continued use of the death penalty in the legal system. The controversy generated by Evans's case, along with a number of other controversial cases from the same time, contributed to the suspension, and subsequent abolition, of capital punishment in the United Kingdom for murder. In , the year after Christie's execution, Rillington Place was renamed Ruston Close, but number 10 continued in multiple occupation. The three families living there in refused to move out for the shooting of the film 10 Rillington Place , which was therefore set in the empty number 7. , who played Christie in the film, spoke of his reluctance to accept the role: "I do not like playing the part, but I accepted it at once without seeing the script. I have never felt so totally involved in any part as this. It is a most devastating statement on capital punishment. In January the Home Office awarded Timothy Evans's half-sister, Mary Westlake, and his sister, Eileen Ashby, ex-gratia payments as compensation for the miscarriage of justice in Timothy Evans's trial. The independent assessor for the Home Office, Lord Brennan QC, accepted that "the conviction and execution of Timothy Evans for the murder of his child was wrongful and a miscarriage of justice" and that "there is no evidence to implicate Timothy Evans in the murder of his wife. She was most probably murdered by Christie. Christie claimed that the four different clumps of hair in his collection came from his wife and the three bodies discovered in the kitchen alcove, but only one matched the hair type on those bodies, Ethel Christie's. Even if two of the others had come from the bodies of Fuerst and Eady, which had by then decomposed into skeletons, [75] there was still one remaining clump of hair unaccounted for—it could not have come from Beryl Evans, as no pubic hair had been removed from her body. Writing in , Professor Keith Simpson , one of the pathologists involved in the forensic examination of Christie's victims, had this to say about the pubic hair collection:. It seems odd that Christie should have said hair came from the bodies in the alcove if in fact it had come from those now reduced to skeletons; not very likely that in his last four murders the only trophy he took was from the one woman with whom he did not have peri-mortal sexual intercourse; and even more odd that one of his trophies had definitely not come from any of the unfortunate women known to have been involved. However, no attempts were or have been made to trace any further victims of Christie, such as examining records of missing women in London during his period of activity. Michael Eddowes suggested in his book of that Christie was in a perfect position as a special police constable during the war to have committed many more murders than have been discovered. This wiki. This wiki All wikis. Sign In Don't have an account? Ethel Christie and the Sheffield connection to the 10 Rillington Place murders

She died on November 8, as a result of his intervention. He persuaded Evans that her death had resulted from septic poisoning, from the various other abortion remedies that she had tried up until that point, and convinced him not to go to the police. Instead, he was dispatched alone to stay with his mother's sister in Wales, with Christie claiming that he had found a young couple willing to look after baby Geraldine. She was never seen alive again. Evans' mother, puzzled by the mysterious disappearance of Beryl and the baby, confronted Evans and, on November 30, unable to maintain the charade any longer, he went to the police in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Wishing to protect Christie, he confessed to accidentally killing Beryl himself, by giving her abortion pills, and then disposing of her body in a sewer drain. Police in Notting Hill duly investigated, and found nothing, and Evans was questioned more intensely a second time, at which time he changed his story and implicated Christie in Beryl's death. A thorough search of Rillington Place, on December 2, , revealed the bodies of Beryl and baby Geraldine hidden in the washhouse in the back garden. Geraldine still had a man's tie around her neck, which had been used to strangle her. Further questioning caused Evans to change his story a number of times, which included a confession to having strangled Beryl over mounting debts, but this may have been due to the limitations of his mental abilities and the strenuous police interrogation. Christie was also questioned, but managed to convince police that he had no involvement. With careful coaching from Christie, wife Ethel also corroborated his version. Evans went on trial at on January 11, , and his ineffective defense team failed to follow up on a number of inconsistencies in the testimony offered by Christie and his wife. Indeed, Christie was a key witness for the prosecution, and his positive impression on the jury was instrumental in Evans being found guilty. Evans continued to maintain his innocence, and attempted one appeal, but he was hanged on March 9, Following the trial, Christie's hypochondria grew steadily worse, and he became depressed and lost a considerable amount of weight. He lost his job at the post office, and found it difficult to maintain a job over the next few years. Around December 12, , Ethel Christie disappeared mysteriously, and Christie told neighbors that she had gone back to Sheffield, while relatives were told that she had become too ill to communicate with them, although he continued to send gifts marked as coming from both of them. He had, in fact, strangled Ethel, and placed her body under the floorboards in the parlor. Christie also began treating the house with strong disinfectants, when neighbors remarked on the increasingly bad odors that were coming from the Christie house. Christie's next victim was year- old Rita Nelson, a pregnant prostitute who was persuaded by Christie that he could assist her with a termination, and who suffered the same fate as Beryl Evans on January 19, Her body was placed in an alcove that existed behind a cupboard in the kitchen. She joined Nelson, in the alcove behind the cupboard, the next morning. Christie's final victim, year-old Hectorina McLennan, was similarly gassed, strangled and raped, then also stashed in the alcove. Christie then papered over the cupboard that concealed the alcove, but could do very little about the increasingly bad odor coming from the three decomposing bodies. He finally moved out of Rillington Place on March 20, , defrauding the family who took up residency. Product Details Price. Murder - Serial Killers. Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program. Become an affiliate. Psychologists have said that he formed a hatred of women and was only able to perform sexually when he was in complete control. Evans was found guilty of murder and hanged in How many people did John Christie kill? It is thought that Christie killed six woman, although the real total could be higher. Play slideshow. Why did John Christie kill?

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What I did take issue with was the constant referencing of dates particularly birth and death dates , they break the text and prevent absorptive reading. There is no reason why a separate timeline appendix could not have been created to provide all this information and it would have made the textual flow much more digestible. I appreciate dates of particular events are necessary and I did not have issue with this but each and every member of Christie's family and there are a lot of them have their birth and death dates listed as do many of the witness accounts for his early life. Then there is the author's general tone throughout the book. What starts of as merely factual soon degenerates in to him mentioning other people who have written about the intertwined cases of Evans and Christie and stating that they have things oh so very wrong - usually because they have a date out by 24 hours. It quickly becomes a diatribe of "I'm right and they are wrong" and trying to separate the details of reality from the book becomes increasingly difficult - especially once the author brings Ludovic Kennedy and the film reconstruction based on his book in to play. I also found it very interesting that at no time does he mention Timothy Evans' mental incapacity. I was under the impression that it was fairly well documented that this was a man of relatively low IQ and whilst he does mention potential issues with literacy nothing else is made of it - except to say that he believes he could read perfectly well. For me, I think earlier accounts are more accurate regarding Mr Evans and that he was easily suggestible and fairly child like in his world view; thus making it easy for both Christie and the legal system to manipulate him in to a confession that he may or may not have believed. Interestingly despite all the deep research in to the lives of the victims and Christie, Evans is not paid the same courtesy beyond his familial connections and there are no contemporaneous recollections from work colleagues and friends which previous authors have used to show how child like he was. There is a very definite agenda from the author and this is not merely a recounting of the facts surrounding the case. Rather, it is the author's contention that two murderers lived under the same roof at the same time and that Evans should never have been pardoned. Couple that with the author's bias towards the acknowledged Christie victims as being "the lowest of the low" and his incessant need to prove himself superior to other biographers of the subject it soon becomes a quite turgid mess. Overall, well researched but heavily affected by personal bias. May 11, Mary rated it it was amazing. Excellent look at Christie, the murders, the case, and the trial I didn't know anything about Christie beyond brief mentions in British books. The biography is a well researched, and readable, look at the man. It is very balanced about the him and his crimes. The controversy about the two Evans' murders is interesting. Oates comes down firmly on the side of those who believe Evans killed his wife and daughter. He makes a good case. It was all very tawdry, sort of anti-upper crust murders--totally Excellent look at Christie, the murders, the case, and the trial I didn't know anything about Christie beyond brief mentions in British books. It was all very tawdry, sort of anti-upper crust murders--totally different from the usual British murder mysteries that deal with the rich and titled. And of course, it's all too true. The house on Rivington was squalid, at least in photos. Christie and his wife lived in three rooms. Christie looks like a seedy accountant. Maybe because of that, not in spite of it, the book tells a fascinating tale. To be honest this book didnt seem interesting until the last 4 chapters! At some points it feels as though it is researched a little too much in depth. It focused on what other books and people had gotten incorrect rather than stating the factual truth. However, as I stated I enjoyed the later chapters of this book and learnt a lot of the serial killer Christie. May 14, Carole Amabile rated it liked it. An interesting, well written and detailed account of the events at Rillington Place. Dec 29, Donna Maguire rated it really liked it Shelves: to-add-review-on-amazon , books-read , kindle-read , publisher-pen-and-sword , serial-killers-and-true-crime. I thought that this was a great book and it gave a great overview of John Christie and his crimes at 10 Rillington Place, a place made infamous due to his activities at the location. I thought that the book was well researched and you could see the attention to detail that the author put in to the work. They had clearly done a lot of background work. I thought it was an easy book to read and the later chapters for me were the most interesting. It has a great layout and flow with the chapters being broken down to keep the biography concise too. It is 4 stars from me for this one, I thought it was a well written book, it had plenty of detail and even though the subject matter is not an easy in places I did enjoy the book and I thought it was a great true crime biography — highly recommended Jul 30, Anna Bergmark rated it it was ok. All of the above I'm afraid. There doesn't seem to be much to say about this serial killer. A large chunk of this book feels like landfill; a lot of names including maiden ones! You're up till your armpits in addresses. But if I find this uncompelling it's not only the fault of the author. No, a big part of the problem lies in the subject matter itself. And he trawls through genealogical sources — electoral registers, the census, wills, military and police records and civil registration records. As a result, his account throws more light on the background, personalities and motivations of the key players in the drama — Christie, Evans, the victims and the courts. In particular Jonathan Oates's reinvestigation seeks to present the widest possible range of facts relevant to the case. As he does so, he gives a compelling insight into Christie's life and how he was perceived before he was exposed as a serial killer. I thought that this was a great book and it gave a great overview of John Christie and his crimes at 10 Rillington Place, a place made infamous due to his activities at the location. I thought that the book was well researched and you could see the attention to detail that the author put in to the work. They had clearly done a lot of background work. I thought it was an easy book to read and the later chapters for me were the most interesting. It has a great layout and flow with the chapters being broken down to keep the biography concise too. It is 4 stars from me for this one, I thought it was a well written book, it had plenty of detail and even though the subject matter is not an easy in places I did enjoy the book and I thought it was a great true crime biography — highly recommended Read the full review here. This reassessment uses police and Home Office files within a compelling insight into Christie's life and crimes. Dr Jonathan Oates is the Ealing Borough Archivist and Local History Librarian, and he has written and lectured on aspects of the history of London, including its criminal past. The Duke of Cumberland and the ' Products Authors Categories Series. Toggle navigation. The several "confessions" apparently made by Evans bear no relation to what he probably said, and were inventions made by the police, as Ludovic Kennedy pointed out much later, when the truth about Christie finally emerged. The police accepted all of Christie's statements as factual without probing further and he was the crucial witness at the trial of Evans. Bearing in mind Christie had criminal convictions for theft and malicious wounding which Evans didn't , the reliance on his testimony was questionable to say the least. Nearly three years passed without major incident for Christie after Evans' trial. Christie lost his job at the Post Office Savings Bank because his criminal past had been disclosed in the trial, but he found alternative employment as a clerk with the British Road Services at their Shepherd's Bush depot. The tenants were black immigrants from the West Indies , which horrified the Christies, who regarded their neighbours as inferior and despised living with them. She had last been seen in public two days earlier. In reply to a letter from relatives in Sheffield, he wrote that Ethel had rheumatism and could not write herself; to one neighbour, he explained that she was visiting her relatives in Sheffield; to another, he said that she had gone to Birmingham. To support himself, Christie sold Ethel's wedding ring, watch and furniture. Every week he went to the Labour Exchange to collect his unemployment benefit. Maloney was a prostitute from the Ladbroke Grove area. Nelson was from Belfast and was visiting her sister in Ladbroke Grove when she met Christie. All three met on several occasions after this, and Christie let MacLennan and Baker stay at Rillington Place while they were looking for accommodation. Later, he convinced Baker, who came to Rillington Place looking for her, that he had not seen MacLennan. Christie kept up the pretence for several days, meeting Baker regularly to see if he had news of her whereabouts and to help him search for her. For the murders of his final three victims, Christie modified the gassing technique he had first used on Muriel Eady; he simply used a rubber tube connected to the gas pipe in the kitchen which he kept closed off with a bulldog clip. The Brabin Report pointed out that Christie's explanation of his gassing technique was not satisfactory because he would have been overpowered by the gas as well. Nevertheless, it was established that all three victims had been exposed to carbon monoxide. As with Eady, Christie raped his last three victims while they were unconscious and continued to do so as they died. When this aspect of his crimes was publicly revealed, Christie quickly gained a reputation for being a necrophiliac. The landlord visited that same evening and, finding the couple there instead of Christie, demanded that they leave first thing the next morning. After he left Rillington Place, Christie went to a Rowton House in King's Cross , where he booked a room for seven nights under his real name and address. While in custody, Christie confessed to seven murders: the three women found in the kitchen alcove, his wife, and the two women buried in the back garden. He also admitted being responsible for the murder of Beryl Evans, which Timothy Evans had originally been charged with during the police investigation in , although he denied killing Geraldine Evans. Christie was tried only for the murder of his wife Ethel. Pierrepoint assured him that "It won't bother you for long". After Christie's conviction there was substantial controversy concerning the earlier trial of Evans, who had been convicted mainly on the evidence of a serial killer living in the same property in which Evans had allegedly carried out his crimes. The controversy prompted the then Home Secretary, David Maxwell-Fyfe , to commission an inquiry led by John Scott Henderson, QC, the Recorder of Portsmouth, to determine whether Evans had been innocent of his crimes and if a miscarriage of justice had occurred. Scott Henderson interviewed Christie before his execution, as well as another twenty witnesses who had been involved in either of the police investigations. He concluded that Evans was in fact guilty of both murders and that Christie's confessions to the murder of Beryl Evans were unreliable and made in the context of furthering his own defence that he was insane. Far from ending the matter, questions continued to be raised in Parliament concerning Evans' innocence, [64] [65] along with newspaper campaigns and books being published making similar claims. This uncertainty led to a second inquiry, chaired by High Court judge, Sir Daniel Brabin , which was conducted over the winter of — Brabin re-examined much of the evidence from both cases and evaluated some of the arguments for Evans' innocence. His conclusions were that it was "more probable than not" that Evans had killed his wife but not his daughter Geraldine, for whose death Christie was responsible. Christie's likely motive was that her continued presence would have drawn attention to Beryl's disappearance. There was already debate in the United Kingdom over the continued use of the death penalty in the legal system. The controversy generated by Evans's case, along with a number of other controversial cases from the same time, contributed to the suspension, and subsequent abolition, of capital punishment in the United Kingdom for murder. In , the year after Christie's execution, Rillington Place was renamed Ruston Close, but number 10 continued in multiple occupation. The three families living there in refused to move out for the shooting of the film 10 Rillington Place , which was therefore set in the empty number 7. Richard Attenborough , who played Christie in the film, spoke of his reluctance to accept the role: "I do not like playing the part, but I accepted it at once without seeing the script. I have never felt so totally involved in any part as this. It is a most devastating statement on capital punishment. In January the Home Office awarded Timothy Evans's half-sister, Mary Westlake, and his sister, Eileen Ashby, ex-gratia payments as compensation for the miscarriage of justice in Timothy Evans's trial. The independent assessor for the Home Office, Lord Brennan QC, accepted that "the conviction and execution of Timothy Evans for the murder of his child was wrongful and a miscarriage of justice" and that "there is no evidence to implicate Timothy Evans in the murder of his wife. She was most probably murdered by Christie. Christie claimed that the four different clumps of hair in his collection came from his wife and the three bodies discovered in the kitchen alcove, but only one matched the hair type on those bodies, Ethel Christie's. Even if two of the others had come from the bodies of Fuerst and Eady, which had by then decomposed into skeletons, [75] there was still one remaining clump of hair unaccounted for—it could not have come from Beryl Evans, as no pubic hair had been removed from her body. Writing in , Professor Keith Simpson , one of the pathologists involved in the forensic examination of Christie's victims, had this to say about the pubic hair collection:. It seems odd that Christie should have said hair came from the bodies in the alcove if in fact it had come from those now reduced to skeletons; not very likely that in his last four murders the only trophy he took was from the one woman with whom he did not have peri-mortal sexual intercourse; and even more odd that one of his trophies had definitely not come from any of the unfortunate women known to have been involved. However, no attempts were or have been made to trace any further victims of Christie, such as examining records of missing women in London during his period of activity.

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