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Evidence Locker True Crime

123: Murderous Mother-in-Law, Styllou Christofi | England

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Styllou Christofi left the rural village she called home in Cyprus, to go and visit her son and his family in London. She disapproved of his German wife and made no secret of it. When her son and his wife asked her to go back home, she reacted in the most malicious of ways.
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0:00.0

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0:45.6

loved ones.

0:47.7

It was a mild summer's night in London on the 28th of July, 1954.

0:55.0

John Young's dog was restless and needed to go outside.

0:59.0

John opened the back door so his dog could have a run in the backyard of the hamstead home.

1:04.8

It was late, and John didn't expect his neighbors to be awake.

1:09.3

He was surprised when he noticed the flames in Stavroses in Hella's backyard. It was close to midnight and a concern

1:15.7

John rushed to the fence to see what was going on. He peeped over and saw the arm of a tailor's dummy in the

1:22.4

fire and assumed they were burning household junk.

1:26.5

Hella worked in a fashion boutique so it wouldn't be odd for her to have a mannequin at home.

1:32.4

Is John turned to go back into his house? mannequin at home.

1:32.6

As John turned to go back into his house, he saw a lady coming out of the neighbor's

1:36.5

house, walking towards the fire.

1:39.5

He recognized her to be Stavros's mom, who was visiting from Cyprus. The lady stoked the fire with a steady hand,

1:46.5

minding it attentively, and to John, it looked like she had the situation under control.

1:52.3

By this time John's wife Thomasina was also awake and had noticed the fire.

1:56.5

John told her what he saw and they both went back to bed. The next morning

2:01.6

John went out and walked past the house again.

2:05.0

This time there was a humdrum of police officers and other neighbors mulling in the front.

2:10.6

When he heard that someone had died, he realized what he had witnessed.

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