271: True Crime Theater 2: John Christie, 10 Rillington Place

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we talk about the case behind the 70s film "10 Rillington Place". John Christie had a dark side from early on in life. It manifested as an adult through theft and petty crime, but escalated to murder in a very Edgar Allan Poe way.

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Sources:Ethel Christie and the Sheffield connection to the 10 Rillington Place murders (chrishobbs.com )John Christie, The Necrophile Serial Killer Of 1940s London (allthatsinteresting.com )John Reginald Christie | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Secrets Of A Serial Killer: Uncovering The Truth About John Reginald Christie - London Dark Tourist John Christie - The Murders at 10 Rillington Place (watfordobserver.co.uk )John Christie — The Christies — Crime Library Rillington Place: When did John Christie get caught? When did he kill his victims? The (very very grim) real timeline of the BBC drama | Radio Times 10 Rillington Place: a truly horrifying true-crime classic (bbc.com )

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0:00.0	Everyone is Jen.
0:25.0	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.4	And welcome back to Corpus DeLecti, the podcast.
0:29.7	Yes, indeed.
0:30.4	It's been a minute, but we are back.
0:33.2	Rest assured, if you are on Discord or Patreon, you probably heard this from us already, but
0:40.2	it may seem like it's been super quiet, but it actually has not been for us. We've been
0:46.9	working on a lot, which is why we've been not in your faces. There's a lot going on with
0:53.4	Rocky Myers right now. We're not really at
0:56.4	liberty to give a whole lot of details, but just know that we need your support. If you haven't
1:03.4	sent a letter yet, we ask that you email them to us at this point, just because time could
1:08.7	be of the essence. He could have a date set at any time.
1:12.6	And the email address is corpus delicti at yahoo.com. So if you want to send one, please do that.
1:18.9	And then the other thing is, I think we're ready to tell you guys the other big thing we've
1:23.6	been working on. We got the okay from the family. Jen, you want to tell us what we got?
1:29.1	We are going to dive really deep into the we think murder of Peyton Houston. So this is a young
1:38.3	lady who disappeared before Christmas several years ago in Birmingham. She was with some friends and they found her later.
1:46.7	The coroner and the police ruled it as a drug overdose. We've been digging a little bit deeper.
1:53.6	We've been talking to her family. We've been talking to her friends. That's not what we believe.
1:58.3	So we are doing an in-depth review and getting knee-deep into this case.
2:04.9	From the sounds of it, Peyton was this bubbly, wonderful, super friendly lady.
2:10.2	Yeah, and it was really big here in Birmingham when it happened, which was at the tail end of 2019, early 2020.
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