John Reginald Halliday Christie

Christie lived at Rillington place where he would go on to take the lives of women who visited him, his wife would also become a victim.
Timothy Evans and his wife lived in the top flat, the case against Evans would play a part in the abolishment of capital punishment in the U.K
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[@ynysvon]

Excellent documentary. No unnecessary distracting fancy camerawork and loud backing music. Perfectly narrated with comprehensive information and period photographs.

[@stephenwilson6573]

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[@robertlewis4216]

Attenborough played him chillingly in '10 Rillington Place'

[@bluenose8442]

Agree. Superb performance.

[@andrewcharley1893]

Oh absolutely!!!!!!!

[@tammywilliams1387]

Yes....he was amazing in that film. Had Christie spot on. John Hurt was Timothy Evans..who was also excellent x

[@davidandrews190]

Saw it Brilliant

[@pollydickinson4789]

So true!! RIP Christen and more importantly his victims!!

[@ShortieLeeroy]

This is the most information packed John Christie video i have watched.Respect 100% Juniverse and thank you.

[@juniverse6686]

Thank you so much.

[@derekstocker6661]

Very well done documentary, clear and concise and without overpowering background music like so many have now. Very well done on this, excellent production! RIP to all the innocent victims in this case, sad goings on without a doubt.

[@18Alpine]

Thank you. I found this well presented and informative and I appreciate the non-sensationalist approach.

[@oil3616]

I remember watching 10 Rillington Place as a kid back in 1971 and thinking what a repulsive man Christie was. Later I came to admire how well Attenbourough had played the part. THEN I discover that Christie was my grandfathers cousin (on my mothers side). One of my cousins, again on my mothers side, has been researching the family tree. After detailing the Christie branch, she started another branch which led to a point where a relative married into the Sutliffe family in Halifax. She didn't bother going any further down that branch !!!

[@richardthompson6115]

The best version I’ve heard thank you

[@robjones2408]

Christie was a cruel, repellant man with no redeeming qualities. When he was led to the gallows, he complained his nose itched. Alfie Pierrepont wryly remarked: "I can assure you, it won't bother you for long." 10 Rillington Place captures Christie in his true, sleazy grift. Richard Attenborough was utterly brilliant as this odious serial killer.

[@Nooziterp1]

Perhaps the worst thing is he sent an innocent man to his death at the end of a rope.

[@dlamiss]

Probably the finest acting performance by any British actor

[@robjones2408]

@@dlamiss Richard was a gifted actor. He was equally malevolent as Pinkie in "Brighton Rock".

[@robjones2408]

@@Nooziterp1 Poor Timothy. He had little luck throughout his short life.

[@dazuk1969]

I have seen the old movie 10 Rillington place. One of Richard Attenborough's really great performances. It is chilling and still stands up today.

[@christopherputland3640]

Thank you for your informative knowledge of this pure evil man. Well delivered. R,I,P Timothy Evans.

[@sharoncarter4086]

Really enjoyed watching this. You gave us so many details. Well done. !!!!

[@juniverse6686]

Thanks so much!

[@barry_uk]

Ive always had an interest in this case. Thank you for posting.

[@renejean2523]

Very well done documentary. Lots of information I didn't know about that other videos on this case have never mentioned.

[@MrPete1x]

Thank you for showing this

[@gaggymott9159]

The narration and presentation of the facts are simply CHILLING! Christie was simply calculating and a psychopath....The narration of the Evans/Child presentation was harrowing.....Simply harrowing.... May the entire family rest in peace ❤

[@danielmoran9902]

True story: One of my great uncles was arrested on the suspicion of being Christie, on that day that the man himself was arrested in London. The Met were given a description of Christie and were told to apprehend anyone who looked like him, and that happened to my Great Uncle! To be fair, the poor sod did look like him... Anyway, they carted him off to the station, quite roughly, he always said, and he was there for a while until a relative could come and conclusively prove he wasn't Christie. Not much of a story, but there it is. Be lucky!

[@jamesbyrne9312]

Your uncle was like John hurt....it was christie done it!

[@deemorley2837]

Love your voice and your detailed content. Just found you so keep it coming. ❤

[@juniverse6686]

Thank you so much!

[@TonyMinister]

A really good bit of work. Kept me watching the whole hour to a story i know well. Well done

[@algie-t2w]

A very informative documentary and I'm glad it was narrated by a woman.

[@koont666]

Fantastic retelling of this classic case ,loved it your tone is perfect for this and the pictures keep you glued,im subbed Thank you 🇬🇧

[@Rog5446]

I lived close to Rillington Place and my parents told me that Christie was a keen photographer. My dad said that children would often take negatives to Christie, who would develop them.

[@tietjenuk]

Excellent production. Many thanks.

[@alanwitton5980]

Great documentary very informative thanks for uploading it

[@KarlKeeley]

Thank you for such a informative video this man was such an evil person it's just unbelievable what he got up to I have watched the film who Richard Attenborough played a tremendous part and also there is a TV drama as well which is really good once again thank you very much for a great video

[@bessofhardwick9311]

Poor Timothy Evans should be added to the list of Christie's victims. Thanks again for a very well-told story. The way you cover the cases gives a much clearer overview than other true-crime channels.

[@hetaera3418]

What a well made and superbly narrated video. Well done you.

[@juniverse6686]

Thank you kindly!

[@jdnoble6945]

Excellent narration and research

[@sharrongray1837]

Thank you for sharing with us all 👍🏻

[@chrisjenkinson7059]

Very good. Great story well told. Well done!

[@RaferJeffersonIII]

Seriously, no comments on the really good bit of work. Well done

[@markcawley1]

That was really good.......thank you. Very comprehensive and informative. More so than the film and following series with Tim Roth as John Christie. I've been fascinated with this case since I was a child. Thanks again.

[@juniverse6686]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@nickb5391]

The Richard Attenborough's version film is the best

[@alisonlee3314]

Excellent research, and many photographs I've not seen before.

[@colinbrigham8253]

Thank you 😊

[@doraldeddy1836]

Very informative. Thank you

[@tedthesailor172]

Excellent narration. How can a guy who admits to being implicated in 6 murders, claim they were all largely accidental - I mean - c'mon...! The terrace has since been demolished and the cul-de-sac renamed...

[@gregthompson3274]

God,what a piece of work this horrible creature was,a very good summary of these awful crimes

[@Lar308]

I remember my Dad talking about him as he lived in the UK around that time.

[@LouisFriend-tk8gl]

Thoroughly enjoyable.

[@kenneth2656]

I knew Christie had been in prison before but I didn't realise he had been to prison that many times. I had a friend in Ladbroke Grove and in 1970 he took me to Rillington place that was still standing before the whole road was demolished number 10 was at the end of the road on the left all the houses were unoccupied and you could enter the houses, it was a slum all brown inside with torn linoleum on the floors and bare floorboards in some rooms. I suppose a lot of people had been in there taking souvenirs, after they pulled the street down it was renamed Ruston close and the council parked the dustcarts there, years later the council built new houses on the road and renamed it again Bartle road.

[@kevinjackson7340]

I always remember watching this in the 1970s as a kid.

[@maineguitarists]

What a shocking story. Just shows how easy an out of control person with a history of abusing women continued to get away with his bizarre crimes and just put the evidence all around him, walls, floor, garden outside. For the cops to miss all of this and poor Mr. Evans hanging is a tragedy. I wonder how many people back in those times of weak forensics and sloppy police work have gotten away with murder and are either still living or someone else took the rap. Nice job narrating this story June. I'm glad i have found the Juniverse :). MT

[@suerichardson4381]

Would Timothy Evans have hung if Christie’s criminal record was revealed during the trial

[@johncahalane7327]

​@@suerichardson4381 I'm not too sure here Remember Christie was hanged for the murder of his wife only, just like Haig was hanged for the murder of Mrs Durant Deacon even though he had killed at least 7 others ,the Crown took the case the could prove ,admitting by the Crown of a mistake would be as the Chief Justice in the Birmingham Six case it would be an Appalling Vista ,Evans did not murder his wife or child in my opinion, and yes he should have had a full pardon.

[@almelling6699]

I remember counting the Big Ben seconds on the BBC that morning and saying at the 8th that he was gone.

[@Trebor74]

Christie never admitted to killing Evans daughter. So that's still really unsolved

[@johncahalane7327]

@@suerichardson4381 Yes because Chiistie was the police witness shows how evil he was

[@williammitchell9974]

Excellent Narration And Research 👍Frightening 😢 ( Attenborough Took Along Time To Rid The Character From His Mind.

[@johnjones-henderson3249]

Omg he was sick monster the film was good and Richard attenborough RIP played him so well but thank you for that well read story it was fascinating but very sad RIP to all the victims god bless xxx

[@djsimonrossprice9400]

I thought I'd knew a fair bit about Christie and the murders but your detail is superb.. Great hours listening.. What's really frightening is to think Christie was in north London And John George Haigh was in South London AT THE SAME TIME plying their wears... Great hour. Kudos..❤

[@juniverse6686]

Thank you

[@mickmcguire4571]

Good work well done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@sadikanaim3375]

Very interesting........ thanks 😊😊

[@juniverse6686]

So nice of you

[@gabschasse600]

Poor ,Evans .I wonder if he truly came to believe the story that he first gave the police - and did Christie enjoy having destroyed Evans life as he had taken the others . Probably the police truly thought they had a solved crime That Mrs Christie was so loyal to ,and so controlled by Christie is just one more tragedy in the horrible story -especially as Christie finally took her life Juniverse-while saying that Christie had been compared to Himmel - you muttered ,Oh Lord .I had to giggle . That Christie was so out of control is just incredibly horrible,

[@paulhayward4383]

Poor bastard Evans put the rope around his own neck....why did he say those things...

[@AntelJM]

Its always been said that Tim Evans had learning difficulties and at the time the authorities described him as having a mental age of about 12. Christie was clearly a master manipulator. A shocking miscarriage of justice.

[@Nooziterp1]

Because he was forced to by the police. Under threat of a beating if he didn't.

[@tedthesailor172]

There's some suggestion that his confession was `enhanced'...

[@onlyme972]

Crap solicitor didn't mention Evans was of low IQ or that the confession was made up by the police

[@scathatch]

Here in Australia it's called Police Verbal. And as Evans stated, he was frightened of being beaten up.....

[@peepshow090]

One of the teachers at my secondary school used to be a police man who worked with Christie when he was a special constable. Said he was a strange man even then

[@davidandrews190]

THIS IS AN AWESOME CHANNEL I'VE BEEN WATCHING SOME M R JAMES DRAMAS MADE IN THE 70S WELL CREEPY I'M GOING TO ENJOY LOOKING AT ALL THIS ON YOUR CHANNEL THANK YOU FROM DAVID IN CROMER SORRY FOR CAPS CONTACTS IN SOAK 😎❤️

[@suerichardson4381]

Very comprehensive telling of this well known evil persons life

[@angusrae8481]

My late father Norman Rae reported on the case as chief crime reporter of the news of the world. A hungry Christie had phoned my father to arrange a breakfast meet and give a story . At the rendezvous a police man patrolling scared him off. He was arrested the next day. Norman never got that story but got many more that convicted murderers to the hangman . On my father’s untimely death in 1962 was about to write his memoir. How fascinating that would have been.x

[@juniverse6686]

sorry to hear about your fathers passing. I bet he had so many interesting stories to tell, goodness me how fascinating.

[@faithmapstone9982]

Lovie played the role chillingly very well ⭐️

[@mellisande638]

That police inquiry seems to have been a complete 🐓 up right through😳🙄 it took SO long to catch him and only then when he went on a mad rampage. They hung an innocent, broken man😢 in the bargain.

[@suesmith3744]

The femur propping up the fence got me 🤦🏻‍♀️‼️

[@kevinjackson7340]

that`s british justice for you.

[@anneroy4560]

An official inquiry concluded in 1966 that Christie had murdered Evans's daughter Geraldine, and Evans was granted a posthumous pardon.

[@johngalvin6010]

I've read books, crime magazines, seen the Richard Attenborough movie depiction & watched the 3 part TV version. Christie will go down as one of the most evil men in British history & it's still fascinating as to how he got away with it for all those years. Great story telling, hope there's more macabre tales.

[@UTubeAngelique]

I have given this a like and I enjoyed your knowledge. 9/10. I don’t want to pause to read long statements, especially with my arthritis. I’d prefer them to have stayed on screen the human length of time to be able to read them, with my poor eyesight, or PREFERABLY for you to just simply read them out, then I don’t need to be touching my iPhone screen/start/pausing/stopping/starting when I’m settled down to a story/tale. Otherwise, it would be 10/10. (PS: I didn’t do the above because of the reasons mentioned above - we are not all watching on a big screen)

[@juniverse6686]

Thank you for the information I'll definitely take this into consideration for future projects. Stay safe and keep well.

[@UTubeAngelique]

@@juniverse6686 thank you for your kind reply. Keep it up!

[@paulhayward4383]

Poor bastard that Evans...slightly backward this should have been seen by the jury.

[@suesmith3744]

I think Timothy was more than ‘ slightly backwards ‘ TBH

[@Nooziterp1]

He was convicted on police evidence. Plus Christie's lies.

[@Golo1949]

The picture at 43:19 of the alcove is not at 10 Rillington place, as examination of the room layout and further photos would prove, the sink is not in the correct place etc.

[@michaelahern6821]

Poor Timothy Evans may he rest in peace...

[@davidlally592]

Mm when the excellent Richard Attenborough film came out, I briefly visited the Rillington Place location. It had been renamed Ruston Close, because otherwise no one would live there. And the cul de sac street was in fact then behind a closed off barrier and the entire row was about to be demolished. The area there now has been completley redeveloped and it is unlikely that anyone now living in the area would be aware of the notoriety.

[@2eleven48]

A shame credit was not given to the narrator, as her voice sounds familiar to me.

[@juniverse6686]

Thank you, I would but I was always taught self praise is no praise as it's myself narrating. Thank you so much for the kind words and for watching.

[@2eleven48]

@@juniverse6686 ...Well! What a lovely surprise. A very distinctive voice, I must say. Thank you for your niceness and taking the time to reply. Robert, UK.

[@algie-t2w]

I sometimes think that most men and women don't just fail to make each other happy but they actively make each other unhappy.

[@MrBlaugeist]

I can’t watch this it’s so sad

[@grahamkitchen6650]

If it wasn't for the police mishandling of the case John Reginald Christie Would have been brought to trial sooner

[@stephenedwards9872]

After reading around the subject It seems evans was innocent of murdering daughter but it is stated he likely killed his wife. The evidence i read uses the word likely. The question i cannot resolve how did both bodies end up in the outhouse without both evans and christie seeing each others foul deeds?

[@juliepownall1063]

A great film depicting the chilling christie poor tim evans took the rap for the murders of his wife and child disturbing indeed

[@Saor_Alba]

Very interesting, however, 0:30 John Reginald Halliday Christie was born on the 8th of April 1899, not 1898.

[@lisainger6751]

I checked the birth record for John Christie. He was born in 1899

[@magyarninetysix9821]

The small upper class elite of the British Establishment, those who make and administer the law, will always twist and turn in order to protect themselves and maintain their position at the top.

[@bertcert991]

According to his brother in law Evans was guilty of murder as well

[@robnaylor8192]

He was a kid at the time and living in NZ when all this occurred, he has zero evidence to prove Evans killed anyone! He obviously hated Evans from the outset of his relationship with his sister and this same brother in law adored Christie or “Uncle Reg” as he still refers to him 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@janetpendlebury6808]

So who did Evan's murder?

[@singingcrafter1520]

Yes. Evans wasn't the innocent, mild mannered man we are led to believe. I believe Evans killed her. He was a drunken, violent thug who often beat Beryl to near death. He was a thief and a manipulative fantasist who told lies constantly. It was just coincidence 2 killers ended up at the same address.

[@janmcdonald3896]

Attenborough & Hurt we’re brilliant in the movie.

[@mikeluke7417]

How ironic that he was from the Yorkshire Moors😢the scene of very gruesome events.

[@chriswilliams2514]

Poor man. 😢xxx❤

[@JT-dn1id]

Apparently the judge wept as he passed the death sentence on Christie. The judge explained sometime after that the experience was like condemning a sick animal to death. Interesting.

[@waynejones750]

He bloody new exactly what he was doing.

[@ancupola1994]

CHILLING

[@rodneybrook9555]

Booth town hailfax west Yorkshire lad from Chester place ,like me from Halifax 🤣🤣🤣

[@JGLeber]

At same time as Christie was killing ,London had a killer fog , worse than normal, that killed 12000 people)! A freak fog that was caused by unusual condition and , since Low grade coal was used extensively after the war because the good coal was exported becausey of depression conditions in economy..So population suffered in london and though Labor Party pdotested the givernment was run by Conservative Party under Churchill who came back in power in early fifties.McMillian denied how bad burnimg coal was Not cause of so many daaths. The yellow fog was everywhere even got into homes. Older people died easier but crime skyrocketed because police could not even drive or patrop Because of no visibility often. Truly a killer fog and true number of deaths hidden for years.

[@martincook318]

This is why I do not Support Capitol Punishment in case something like this happens again but I do believe in full life Sentences more so for the more Serious cases

[@brucenichols9153]

I will never agree with the death sentence

[@mandytutt4732]

I watched the film Very disturbing

[@markhooper4532]

Winnie Wallace... I'd like to say I felt sorry for Timothy Evans but sadly I can't..His life was a struggle and even prison looked a better option than the life he had. The whole saga is riddled with incompetence. Chistie being in the police is a farce.

[@tnecklover]

Apparently so many people were trying to join the Force back then during the war, there was no time for proper background checks so he slipped through the cracks quite easily.

[@katesleuth1156]

Was Evans that afraid of Christie that he implicated himself in 2 murders? It would have been his word against Christie’s but Evan’s life could have been spared.

[@neilmartin6704]

Some fella was Reg,rotten to the core,suppose he was a freak of nature like Albert Fish.

[@Mranthrowfist13]

these inauspicious souls were seduced by his eloquence, charisma and iressistible good looks!

[@juniverse6686]

Who could resist.

[@bulldog1066jpd]

The hanging of Evans is why the death sentence is wrong and should never be brought back.... RIP

[@1951GL]

Who placed the body and who did the killing are not the same - Christie already had bodies in the garden when Evans killed his wife and the baby was murdered a few days later. Christie was in a panic and manipulated Evans. There were two murderers in the same house, a ghastly dwelling with one lavatory and a wash house.

[@thomasprior-w1s]

when i was 15 or 16 mate and me went to MADAME TUSSAUDS IN LONDON , HE CHRISTIE,S MODEL WAS STANDING IN HIS KITCHEN ,HE WAS HOLDING A TEA POT, VERY DARK IT WAS HARDLY NO LIGHT, HE WAS LOOKING OUT OF A DIRTY WINDOW STARING DIDNT STAY THERE LONG , YOU COULD FEEL HOW EVIL HE WAS HIS MODEL FELT EVIL ALSO DONT KNOW IF ITS STILL THERE HOPE NOT, EVEN TO THIS DAY I FEEL FUNNY ABOUT IT

[@michaelobrien9825]

Worth watching if you are interested in these rather ick people.

[@donaldgoodinson7550]

Evens must have been thick as a brick.

[@janetpendlebury6808]

He was certainly mentally challenged, and he did not have much schooling, and was easily taken in.

[@wotsoccurinkim]

No just very uneducated , far too trusting and gullible.

[@Nooziterp1]

Not thick, just not intelligent enough to defend himself against skilled experienced lawyers. Plus he must have been so terrified and bewildered when in the police station he would have signed anything put in front of him. The statement that convicted him contained language and words he would not have used, but more crucially police would have used. And he was semi-literate, so wouldn't have fully known what he was signing anyway.

[@petermorris9818]

What are the odds..

[@annehickinbottom]

He had learning difficulties.

[@booshting3520]

Ay up, tha naaas

[@thomasprior-w1s]

pure EVIL PURE EVIL IS ALL I CAN SAY

[@peternagy-im4be]

He wasn't a bad'un really a tad misunderstood perhaps

[@mauriceclark4870]

It was sad. That police didnt dig up Christies garden. Bad policeing at them they do it. Straight away now. As with the Wests case. Their was a tin of. Pubic hairs in garden missed taken from victims

[@PK-yf3hd]

I know nothing of Christie and choose not to, but I am a lifetime Yorkshire man and hence am familiar with a type(very few in Leeds are or ever were as Harry Enfield et al portray) elsewhere in the region more of them conform to the stereotype ..coming from the pennine area he would likely not be as Richard Attenborough not tim Roth played him. Their depiction is the usual stereotype of the northern mass murderer.christie as a one time policeman and scout would not be the sinister, chilling ,reticent type ,,not from Halifax. Both were fine performances but inaccurate ,as was the ludicrous depiction of another northerner,Alan Bennett, as woefully effeminate ,in lady in the van....just more lazy ignorant assumptions of our metropolitan boys and girls...whose own acting pretensions are blown away by real life performers from the north and America..

[@elainebines6803]

I know a creepy guy but turned out it was the husband all along! Shame dna wasn't about then

[@neilsmith9799]

Why are you telling this lie ?