By Jonathan Oates
ISBN-10: 178340891X
ISBN-13: 9781783408917
Sixty years in the past, the invention of our bodies at 10 Rillington position in Notting Hill, London, ended in probably the most sensational, surprising and debatable serial homicide instances in British legal heritage – the case of John Christie. a lot has been written concerning the Christie killings and the destiny of Timothy Evans who was once finished for murders Christie later confessed to – the tale nonetheless provokes powerful feeling and hypothesis. notwithstanding, such a lot the books at the case were compiled with no the good thing about the entire resources which are open to researchers, and so they are likely to specialize in Evans in an try to transparent him of guilt. furthermore, many easily repeat what has been stated ahead of. consequently, a painstaking, scholarly reassessment of the facts - and of Christie's lifestyles - is late, and that's what Jonathan Oates offers during this gripping biography of a serial killer.
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Christie described his parents as ‘Victorians of the old school, highly regarded by the neighbours’. He had fond memories of his mother, ‘a wonderful woman who lived for the happiness of others’. He recalled that when neighbours were in trouble they would come to her. Jack Delves recalls her as being kind and gentle. Christie was his mother’s favourite. His recollection of his father was mixed. On one hand he seems to have admired him, writing that he was ‘a brilliant man at work and at First Aid’, being known at the factory as ‘Dr Christie’, and drank little.
He was dismissed due to his slackness. A few weeks later, he found another job as a driver, this time with Messrs Waring and Gillow Ltd, Oxford Street. 30 It has been suggested that Christie may have commenced his murderous career in London in the 1930s. The only murder which he may possibly have committed is the strangulation of Dora Lloyd, a middle-aged prostitute, on 21 February 1932, in her flat in Maida Vale. The man last seen with her was about thirty-five, five feet nine, medium build, clean shaven, wore horn-rimmed spectacles and ‘spoke in a very nice and gentlemanly manner’.
Every one of us . . almost without exception, must have read something . . 2 So, with as open a mind as possible, let us begin at the beginning. Chapter 1 A Yorkshire Youth 1899–1920 ‘An ordinary, quiet boy. 1 Christie’s roots were in Scotland. His paternal grandfather, also called John, was born in Kilmarnock in 1835. When he was ten, his father, Robert, sent his son to Kidderminster as an apprentice in the carpet trade. John later became a manager. He married Eliza, three years his senior.