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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

75: Serial Killer John Reginald Christie & the Great London Smog w/ Kate Winkler Dawson - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

1952 post-war London was a city in the throes of tragedy. Thousands were sickened and killed from a great filthy smog that choked the city. In the meantime a serial killer named John Reginald Christie was lurking in Notting Hill, murdering multiple women over years and burying their bodies in his backyard, under floorboards and behind walls. Author Kate Winkler Dawson tells these two parallel stories and their ultimate repercussions for the country in her book "Death In the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City."


More about the author here: https://www.katewinklerdawson.com/





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Transcript

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0:30.0

ULTOP

0:44.6

Welkom everyone to the Most Notorious podcast, I'm Eric Rivenis.

0:47.7

I've got another great episode today.

0:49.7

As always, I look for book topics that fascinate me and any chance to head across the Atlantic Ocean is a journey I'm always excited to take.

0:57.8

So I'm pleased to have as my guest today Kate Winkler Dawson.

1:01.8

She's a documentary producer, a news writer and TV news producer.

1:06.2

Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Fox News Channel, PBS News Hour and other media outlets.

1:13.9

She teaches journalism at the University of Texas Austin.

1:17.6

Her book Death in the Air, The True Story of a Serial Killer.

1:21.9

The Great London Smog and the Strangling of a City is our subject today.

1:27.1

And it's a pretty incredible one.

1:29.4

Thanks for joining me today to talk about your book.

1:32.7

Thanks Eric, I appreciate you having me.

1:35.6

I've got to ask you off the bat, what prompted you to write a book about not only the Great London Smog but also about serial killer John Reginald Christie.

1:47.4

Well, it was sort of accident.

1:49.0

So I ran across the story.

1:52.3

I was surfing the internet.

1:53.5

I like to go on Getty and Associated Press and look at the photos of just historic events.

1:59.6

And so I saw the really beautiful striking photo of the woman with a scarf across her face during the Great Smog,

2:08.7

which turned out to be the cover of my book.

2:11.8

And I read a little bit about the smog.

2:13.6

It was in the caption.

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