December 10, 2023 • 30 mins
At the conclusion of Timothy Evans' trial, his mother confronted John Christie, branding him a murderer to which his wife Ethel responded “Don’t you dare call my husband a murderer, he’s a good man.”
I wonder how much Ethel truly believed these words as she spoke them, whether deep down she had a gnawing suspicion that something was wrong, that just yards from her bedroom window lay the bodies of two women, and that within 3 years of Evans’ trial she too would die at her husbands hand.
Join me I as I explore the life of Ethel Christie.
Resources
http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield6/ethelchristie.htm UK Census
John Christie of Rillington Place - Biography of a Serial Killer by Jonathan Oates
Murder with a Difference - Molly Lefebure (1958) Find My Past Sheffield Indexers Sheffield History Forum Daily Mail (London); Jul 9, 1998; p. 32 Sunderland Echo dated 22rd April 1953 and 22nd June 1953 https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/742961/rillington-place-ethel-christie-know-about-john-murders-bbc-2016 https://www.crimetraveller.org/2022/02/10-rillington-place/ https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/johnchristie/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12316289/rillington-place-murders-brother-claims-real-killer/ https://www.murdermap.co.uk/historical-murders/ten-rillington-place-the-home-of-john-reginald-christie/ https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/John_Christie_(murderer)#Murder_of_Ethel_Christie https://razs-midnight-macabre.com/2022/08/29/real-life-horror-john-christie/
I wonder how much Ethel truly believed these words as she spoke them, whether deep down she had a gnawing suspicion that something was wrong, that just yards from her bedroom window lay the bodies of two women, and that within 3 years of Evans’ trial she too would die at her husbands hand.
Join me I as I explore the life of Ethel Christie.
Resources
http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield6/ethelchristie.htm UK Census
John Christie of Rillington Place - Biography of a Serial Killer by Jonathan Oates
Murder with a Difference - Molly Lefebure (1958) Find My Past Sheffield Indexers Sheffield History Forum Daily Mail (London); Jul 9, 1998; p. 32 Sunderland Echo dated 22rd April 1953 and 22nd June 1953 https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/742961/rillington-place-ethel-christie-know-about-john-murders-bbc-2016 https://www.crimetraveller.org/2022/02/10-rillington-place/ https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/johnchristie/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12316289/rillington-place-murders-brother-claims-real-killer/ https://www.murdermap.co.uk/historical-murders/ten-rillington-place-the-home-of-john-reginald-christie/ https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/John_Christie_(murderer)#Murder_of_Ethel_Christie https://razs-midnight-macabre.com/2022/08/29/real-life-horror-john-christie/
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