39: The Rillington Place Strangler | England (Part 2)

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🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In 1950, 25-year-old Timothy Evans was convicted of murdering his wife Beryl and their 1-year-old daughter, Jeraldine. He professed his innocence to the end, but was hanged later in the same year. Tim said that his neighbour, 51-year-old year-old John Reginald Christie was responsible for the murders, but nobody believed him.

Two years later, when the bodies of six more women were found at the same property, including Christie’s wife Ethel, police wondered if the wrong man had been executed.
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0:00.0	You were listening to The Evidence Locker.
0:07.0	Today's show is the second episode of a two-part case.
0:11.0	We recommend you listen to our episode, The Rillington Play Strangler, Part 1, before listening to Part 2.
0:17.0	Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials.
0:21.0	It deals with true crimes and real people. Each episode is
0:24.8	produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved ones.
0:28.9	In 1950, 25-year-old Timothy Evans was convicted of murdering his wife
0:37.5	Beryl and their one-year-old daughter Geraldine.
0:40.3	Tim said that his neighbor, John Reginald Christie, was responsible for the murders, but nobody believed him.
0:47.0	He was not granted a retrial, and despite professing his innocence to the end, he was hanged later the same year.
0:53.6	Christie had served in World War I, but after a mustard gas attack,
0:58.2	he returned home, scarred physically and emotionally.
1:02.4	After a couple of prison stints and nearly a decade of separation from his wife,
1:06.0	he seemed to have pulled himself back together.
1:09.0	He even worked as a special constable, patrolling the streets of Notting Hill, but he abused his position of power.
1:16.3	He was known to turn a blind eye to women who worked in the sex trade, providing that they slept
1:20.2	with him.
1:21.7	Christie had murdered two women in the early 1940s, but their bodies had not been discovered
1:27.0	at the time of Tim's trial.
1:29.9	Christie could very well have gotten away with murder if the urge to kill again did not get the better of him. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:47.0	uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, At the trial of Tim Evans in 1950,
2:13.0	Christie's previous criminal offenses were made public,
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