"and the nearby home of John Christie at 10 Rillington Place filming took place over five weeks in London and Dublin. Thirteen Steps Down (TV series) Thirteen Steps Down is a 2012 two part television thriller based on the novel by Ruth Rendell first broadcast by ITV. Mix Cellini is a lonely, maladjusted young man who works for a company that repairs exercise equipment, and lives in the upstairs apartment of an old Victorian house on Notting Hill. While his reclusive landlady, Gwendolen, spends her time reading and pondering lost loves, Mix grows dangerously obsessed with serial killer John Christie"
"in the United Kingdom for murder. In 1954, the year after Christie's execution, Rillington Place was renamed Ruston Close, but number 10 continued in multiple occupation. The three families living there in 1970 refused to move out for the shooting of the 1971 film ""10 Rillington Place"", which was therefore filmed in the empty number 6. The house and street were demolished later, and the area has changed beyond all recognition. Bartle Road, London W11, now approximates the line of Rillington Place, and a small garden occupies the site where No. 10 once stood. In January 2003 the Home Office"
"Rillington Place. The tenants were predominantly black immigrants from the West Indies; this horrified the Christies, who regarded their neighbours as inferior and disliked living with them. Tensions between the new tenants and the Christies came to a head when Ethel Christie prosecuted one of her neighbours for assault. Christie successfully negotiated with the Poor Man's Lawyer Centre to continue to have exclusive use of the back garden, ostensibly to have space between him and his neighbours but arguably to prevent anyone from uncovering the human remains buried there. On the morning of 14 December 1952, Christie strangled Ethel in"
"the 1960s. In 1954, the year after Christie's execution, Rillington Place in Notting Hill, west London, was renamed Ruston Close, but number 10 continued to be occupied. In the 2016 documentary 'Being Beryl' on the UK Blu-ray, the actress Judy Geeson revealed that the family living at number 10 in 1970 were too afraid to move out temporarily in fear of not being allowed back, so exterior scenes and window shots were filmed at the nearby number 7 while interior sets were used at Shepperton Studios in London. The house and street were demolished later, and the area has changed"
"Every week he went to the Labour Exchange to collect his unemployment benefit. On 26 January 1953 he forged his wife's signature and emptied her bank account. Between 19 January and 6 March 1953, Christie murdered three more women he invited back to 10 Rillington Place: Kathleen Maloney, Rita Nelson and Hectorina MacLennan. Maloney was a prostitute from the Ladbroke Grove area. Nelson was from Belfast and was visiting her sister in Ladbroke Grove when she met Christie. She was six months pregnant at the time of her murder. Christie first met MacLennan, who was living in London with her"
"Timothy Evans Timothy John Evans (20 November 1924 – 9 March 1950) was a Welshman falsely convicted and hanged for the murder of his wife and infant daughter at their residence at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London. In January 1950, he was tried for and convicted of the murder of his daughter. He was sentenced to death by hanging, a sentence that was later carried out. During his trial, Evans had accused his downstairs neighbour, John Christie, of committing the murders. Three years after Evans's execution, Christie was found to be a serial killer who had murdered six"
"notions of what a film should achieve."" Tom Hardy of the British Film Institute has noted Attenborough's ability at ""getting into the flesh of the paranoid and the distressed"", describing the film as a ""detailed account of life under the shadow of World War II [which] is powerful and compelling"". John Hurt received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. 10 Rillington Place 10 Rillington Place is a 1971 British crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Richard Attenborough, John Hurt and Judy Geeson. It was adapted by Clive Exton from the book ""Ten Rillington Place"" by"
"Nest"", ""Surgical Spirit"" and ""Virtual Murder"". Coleman appeared in a number films including ""Yangtse Incident"" (1957), ""Girls at Sea"" (1958), ""The Navy Lark"" (1959), ""Ben-Hur"" (1959), ""Rotten to the Core"" (1965) and ""Naked Evil"" (1966). He also had a cameo role in the film ""10 Rillington Place"" (1971) as the police constable who arrests John Christie. Coleman was married to the actress Peggy Sinclair, and spent the later years of his life living in France. He died from cancer in France on 16 December 2008, aged 78. Richard Coleman Richard Coleman (20 January 1930 – 16 December 2008) was a"
"sentence. A chapter (""Plea"") in McVicar's autobiography ""McVicar by Himself"" is written as a letter to Morris, persuading Morris to believe in his client's worth. At the time, Morris was already in poor health. Morris was born in Bromley, Kent. He married Betty Rene Russ in July 1949, who worked for MI5 and MI6. They had two children, Rupert (born 9 December 1951) and Laura (born 31 August 1953). Morris died in Bullingdon, Oxfordshire in October 1972, aged 59. Morris was played by Robert Hardy in ""10 Rillington Place"", a 1971 film based on the Evans/Christie case. Malcolm Morris Malcolm"
"Rillington Place, none of which could be ascribed to Evans. Indeed, two of the skeletons found at the house dated back to the war – long before Evans and his family had moved in. After a long campaign, Evans was pardoned in 1966. The scandal helped in the abolition of the death penalty in the UK. Kennedy's book was filmed in 1970 as ""10 Rillington Place"", starring John Hurt as Evans and Richard Attenborough as Christie. In 1985, Kennedy published ""The Airman and the Carpenter"" (), in which he argued that Richard Hauptmann did not kidnap and murder Charles Lindbergh's"
"the Royal Navy. He wrote several books that questioned convictions in a number of notable cases in British criminal history. One of the first miscarriages of justice he investigated was the conviction and hanging of Timothy Evans in his 1961 book ""Ten Rillington Place"" (). Evans was found to have murdered his baby daughter in 1950, but Kennedy contended that he was innocent, and that the murders of his wife and baby had been committed by the serial killer John Christie. Christie was hanged three years after the hanging of Evans, following the discovery of six more bodies at 10"
"police re-interviewed the workmen and forced them to change their evidence to fit the preconceived idea that Evans was the sole murderer. The murderer, Christie, would have hidden the bodies of Beryl and Geraldine in the temporarily vacant first-floor flat, and then moved them to the wash-house four days later when the workmen had finished. Three years later, Christie vacated his premises at 10 Rillington Place and the landlord allowed an upstairs tenant, Beresford Brown, to use Christie's kitchen. Brown found the bodies of three women (Kathleen Maloney, Rita Nelson and Hectorina Maclennan) hidden in a papered-over kitchen pantry, a"
"boyfriend, Alex Baker, in a café. All three met on several occasions after this, and Christie let MacLennan and Baker stay at Rillington Place while they were looking for accommodation. On another occasion, Christie met MacLennan on her own and persuaded her to come back to his flat, where he murdered her. Later, he convinced Baker, who came to Rillington Place looking for MacLennan, that he had not seen her. Christie kept up the pretence for several days, meeting Baker regularly to see if he had news of her whereabouts and to help him search for her. For the murders"
"his flat, or close to Gladstone Park. The victims killed in 1982 and 1983 at his Muswell Hill residence were retained at his flat, with their flesh and smaller bones flushed down the lavatory. Nilsen admitted to engaging in masturbation as he viewed the nude bodies of several of his victims, and to have engaged in sexual acts with six of his victims' bodies, but was adamant he had never penetrated any of his victims. Nilsen killed his first victim, 14-year-old Stephen Holmes, on 30 December 1978. Holmes encountered Nilsen in the Cricklewood Arms pub, where he (Holmes) had unsuccessfully"
"was an expert witness in the trial the following year. However, Adams was acquitted of murdering one of his patients, owing to lack of evidence of motive, among other uncertainties. He gave evidence during the trial of John Christie in 1953, having produced a detailed and comprehensive report on the many bodies found at 10 Rillington Place. The bodies were well preserved and so much relevant information could be gleaned from their condition. His report showed a consistent pattern of attack by Christie, most of the intact victims having been sexually molested and strangled. Beryl and Geraldine Evans had alone"
"of fellow homosexuals with him developing a ""callous rationale"" and an ""urge to kill"". He spent the last years of his life in a prison hospital. Michael Lupo Michael del Marco Lupo (1953 – 12 February 1995) was a serial killer originally from Italy, active in the UK. He operated from the Yves Saint Laurent boutique in Brompton Road, London during the 1980s. On 15 March 1986, the body of a 37-year-old murder victim named Alex Kasson was found in a derelict flat in Kensington, London. The investigation did not make much progress because there were no obvious link between"
"wife's body was found beneath the floorboards of the front room. Christie was arrested and convicted of his wife's murder, for which he was hanged. Two of Christie's victims were Beryl Evans and her baby daughter Geraldine, who, along with Beryl's husband, Timothy Evans, were tenants at 10 Rillington Place during 1948–49. This case sparked huge controversy after Timothy Evans was charged with both murders, found guilty of the murder of his daughter and hanged in 1950. Christie was a major prosecution witness; when his own crimes were discovered three years later, serious doubts were raised about the integrity of"
"of an uprising, but it soon became apparent that the assassin – who had made no attempt to escape – was a man with an obsessive grievance against the Government and had acted alone. The assassin, John Bellingham, was a merchant who believed he had been unjustly imprisoned in Russia and was entitled to compensation from the government, but all his petitions had been rejected. Perceval's body was laid on a sofa in the speaker's drawing room and removed to Number 10 in the early hours of 12 May. That same morning an inquest was held at the Cat and"
"noted. Traditionally, five murders (known as the ""canonical five"") are attributed to the notorious serial killer ""Jack the Ripper"", who terrorised Whitechapel in the East End of London between August and November 1888. Authorities are not agreed on the exact number of the Ripper's victims, and at least eleven Whitechapel murders between April 1888 and February 1891 were included in the same extensive police investigation. All the crimes remain unsolved. Claims that Bury could have been the Ripper began to appear in newspapers shortly after Bury's arrest. Like Bury, the Ripper had inflicted abdominal wounds on his victims immediately after"
"house (since demolished) in Headingley. Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe committed two of his 20 attacks in Headingley. He killed 20-year-old Jacqueline Hill – the last of the 13 women he killed – in the area on 17 November 1980. On 24 September that year, he had also attacked Singapore born doctor Upadhya Bandara, 34, in the area, but she survived his assault. Sutcliffe was arrested within two months of Hill's murder and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for a total of 13 murders and seven attempted murders. Celebrate Headingley is an annual series of events organised by Headingley Network, taking"
"The Richardson Gang The Richardson gang was an English crime gang based in South London, England, in the 1960s. Also known as the ""Torture Gang"", they had a reputation as some of London's most sadistic gangsters. Their alleged specialities included pulling teeth out using pliers, cutting off toes using bolt cutters and nailing victims to the floor using 6-inch nails. Charles ""Charlie"" William Richardson (18 January 1934 – 19 September 2012) was born in Brentford, West London to Eileen Elizabeth Mary (née Allen) and Charles Frederick Richardson, who had married the previous year in Camberwell, South London. The family soon"
"justice, and grant audience when it is asked of them."" A subscription was raised for the widow and children of Bellingham, and ""their fortune was ten times greater than they could ever have expected in any other circumstances"". His widow remarried the following year. Bellingham's skull was preserved at Barts Pathology Museum. In September 2009 the St Neots Local History Society erected a plaque on Bellingham House in St Neots. The house, on the corner of Huntingdon Street and Cambridge Street, is said to be the birthplace of Bellingham. John Bellingham John Bellingham (176918 May 1812) was the assassin of"
"lodged in March 1925, but it was dismissed the following month. Thorne was hanged on 22 April 1925 in Wandsworth prison in London. Norman Thorne Norman Thorne (c. 1902 – 22 April 1925) was an English Sunday-school teacher and chicken farmer who was convicted and hanged for what became known as the Chicken run murder. He murdered his fiancée Elsie Cameron (born 22 April 1898) on 5 December 1924 at his chicken farm in Crowborough, Sussex and later dismembered her body and buried it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, lived in Crowborough and"
"Mark Martin (murderer) Mark Martin (born 1981) is a British spree killer. Martin killed three homeless women in Nottingham between December 2004 and January 2005, declaring his ambition to become ""Nottingham's first serial killer"". He soon became nicknamed ""The Sneinton Strangler"". His victims were Zoe Pennick (aged 26), Ellen Frith (aged 25) and Katie Baxter (aged 18). Martin was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment and on 23 February 2008, ""The Times"" reported that he was one of around 50 prisoners to have been issued with whole life tariffs and were unlikely ever to be released. He had two accomplices in"
"had been taken to the hospital on 10 May after complaining of stomach pains; he later suffered a blood clot as a result of surgery complications. Nilsen is known to have killed 12 young men and boys between 1978 and 1983; it is suspected that the true number of victims may be 15. At least nine victims had been killed at 195 Melrose Avenue, with his final three victims being killed at 23 Cranley Gardens. Of Nilsen's eight identified victims, only three — Stephen Holmes, Kenneth Ockenden and Graham Allen — had a permanent address at the time of their"
"his murders. John Ashley (born 1972) was found guilty of taking part in two of the murders and received life imprisonment with a recommended minimum of 25 years, while Dean Carr (born 1976) was found guilty of taking part in the murder of Ellen Frith and received life imprisonment with a recommended minimum of 14 years. Mark Martin (murderer) Mark Martin (born 1981) is a British spree killer. Martin killed three homeless women in Nottingham between December 2004 and January 2005, declaring his ambition to become ""Nottingham's first serial killer"". He soon became nicknamed ""The Sneinton Strangler"". His victims were"
"Donald Neilson Donald Neilson (1 August 1936 – 18 December 2011), alias the ""Black Panther"", was a British armed robber, kidnapper and murderer. He murdered three people during robberies of sub-post offices between 1971 and 1974, and murdered kidnap victim Lesley Whittle, an heiress from Highley, Shropshire, in January 1975. He was apprehended later that year, and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1976, remaining in prison until his death in 2011. Neilson, born Donald Nappey, was aged ten in January 1947 when his 33-year-old mother died from breast cancer. He was said to have had an unhappy childhood and"
"Christie, demanded that they leave first thing the next morning. The landlord then allowed the tenant of the top-floor flat, Beresford Brown, to use Christie's kitchen. On 24 March, Brown discovered the kitchen alcove when he attempted to insert brackets into the wall to hold a wireless set. Peeling back the wallpaper, Brown saw the bodies of Maloney, Nelson and MacLennan. After getting confirmation from another tenant in 10 Rillington Place that they were dead bodies, Brown informed the police and a citywide search for Christie began. After he left Rillington Place, Christie went to a Rowton House in King's"
"Neville Heath Neville George Clevely Heath (6 June 1917 – 16 October 1946) was an English murderer who was responsible for the deaths of two young women. He was executed in London in October 1946. Heath was born in Ilford in Essex, England. Although he came from a lower middle class background, his father, who was a barber, made considerable financial sacrifices so that he could attend a grammar school, Rutlish School, at Merton Park, southwest London. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1937, but was dismissed for going absent without leave. He was caught obtaining credit by fraud,"
"to kill seven others (he initially confessed in 1983 to having killed 15 victims). The majority of Nilsen's victims were homeless or homosexual men; others were heterosexual people he typically met in bars, on public transport or — on one occasion — outside his own home. All of Nilsen's murders were committed inside the north London addresses where he alternately resided in the years he is known to have killed. His victims were lured to these addresses through guile — typically the offer of alcohol and/or shelter. Inside Nilsen's home, the victims were usually given food and alcohol, then strangled"
"rather run-down area of London. They moved into the ground-floor flat in December 1938. The house was a three-storey brick terrace; the ground and first floors contained a bedroom, living room and kitchen but the second-floor flat had no living room. Living conditions were ""squalid"" – the building's occupants shared one outside lavatory, and none of the flats had a bathroom. The street was close to an above-ground section of the Metropolitan line (now the Hammersmith & City and Circle lines), and the train noise would have been ""deafening"" for the occupants of 10 Rillington Place. After three years of"
"Robert Nixon (serial killer) Robert Nixon (ca. 1919-June 16, 1939) was an American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana around 1919, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles ""brick bat murders"" of 1937. Depicted with racist imagery in the mainstream press after his arrest, he was given the nickname the ""Brick Moron"" as he killed his victims with bricks and was depicted as dimwitted. Convicted of murder, he was executed in Chicago in 1939. Nixon served, in part, as the basis of the character of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's 1940"
"ankle. She had been decapitated by a shovel workmen had been using to level the refuse. Tailford was found dead on 2 February 1964 on the Thames foreshore below Linden Housethe clubhouse of the London Corinthian Sailing Clubwest of Hammersmith Bridge. She had been strangled, several of her teeth were missing, and her underwear had been forced down her throat. Lockwood was found dead on 8 April 1964 on the foreshore of the Thames at Corney Reach, Chiswick, not far from where Tailford had been found. With the discovery of this third victim, police realized that a serial murderer was"