The East London Butcher: John Childs and the Murders With No Bodies
In a council flat in Poplar, a man dismembered his victims in the bathtub, burned their remains in the fireplace, and charged around £2,000 a life. Six people vanished between 1974 and 1978 — including a ten-year-old boy. No bodies were ever found.
Host Alexander Lawson examines the confessions of John Childs, Britain’s most prolific hitman, the chilling details of his contract killings, and the later revelation that he was a pathological liar whose evidence freed the men he implicated.
A story of professional murder, domestic horror, and justice that remains incomplete.
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