Number 10: The Man Who Papered Over the Bodies
In March 1953, a tenant at 10 Rillington Place tapped a kitchen wall and found three bodies hidden behind fresh wallpaper. The man who had lived there for fifteen years was already gone. His name was John Reginald Halliday Christie, a former special constable who had stood in the witness box three years earlier and helped send Timothy Evans to the gallows.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of the Notting Hill house, the eight killings, and the confession that arrived after Evans had already been hanged at Pentonville. Evans was pardoned in 1966. Christie was not. The question the case left…
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