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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 79. Chapters: John Christie, Ray Harford, Julie Kirkbride, Oliver Smithies, Pat Welsh, Bramwell Booth, Robert Ferrar, Anne Lister, Charles Leach, John Frederick Bateman, Paddy Kenny, David Hartley, Herbert Akroyd Stuart, Luke O'Brien, John Lawton, John Henry Whitley, Stuart Fielden, Frank Worthington, Michael Collins, John Noakes, Shirley Crabtree, Tom Clarke, Jack Wilkinson, Henry Briggs, Robin Simon, Steve Croft, Peter Downsborough, Francis Crossley, Benjamin Wilson, Richard Haking, Jessica Harris, Paul Opacic, Gareth Widdop, Peter Butler, Craig Fleming, James Berrett, Edward Akroyd, Emma Williams, Percy Shaw, John Willie Sutcliffe, Steve Sanders, Arthur Edward Ellis, John E. Walker, Kevin Donovan, John Kettley, Tom Emmett, Simon Bailey, Tom Bailey, Barrie Ingham, Linda Riordan, Lee Richardson, Eric Portman, Nick Richardson, Harold Mackintosh, 1st Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, George Dyson, Scott Grix, Clement G. Boothroyd, Andrew Harwood Mills, Paddy Tipping, Peter Jackson, Rodney Green, David Knowles, Harry Wilkinson, Ken Dean, Gerald B. Whitham, Joseph Jagger, Donald Thompson, Paul Simon, Asa Robinson, James Pickles, Steve Stoutt, Phyllis Bentley, Oliver Hannon-Dalby, Graham Holroyd, Nathan Clarke, Wilfred Pickles, Neil Hurst, George Langhorn, Frank Todd, Joe Tyler, Joe McClelland, Luke Ambler, Gary Fellows, Kate Thompson, James Crossley, Cyril Stacey, Gerry Priestley, Richard Irving, William Edward Soothill, Ashleigh Townsend, Anita Carey, Mick Scott, John Pawson, Don Lang, John Waterhouse, Joe Duttine, Lindsay Clarke, Phil Whitehead, Whelan Ward, John Womersley, Billy Barr, Nick Lawrence, Bobby Hoy, John Lister, John Lake, Oliver John Whitley, John Foster, Johnny Miles, Lee Greenwood, Joel Holmes, John Hartley, Peter O'Dowd, Liam Ridehalgh, Andy McDermott, Craig Emmerson, Richard Popplewell, Keith Clifford, Matthew Wolfenden, Ben T. Russell, Gilbert Stuart Newton, Martin Wolfenden, Byron Smith, Leonard Bairstow, Percival Nathan Whitley, James Dewhirst, John Crossley, J. S. Fletcher, Malcolm Bailey, Nathan Theodore Fielding, Christine Glanville, John Best, Stuart Wade, Sir Douglas Alexander, 1st Baronet, Jamie Fielden, Spencer Allen, Charles Horner, Isaac Bottomley, Herbert Schofield, Robert Collinson, Edwin Holroyd, Theodore Hoyle, Séan Walsh, John Briercliffe, Barney Cutbill, David Pickles, Robert Alexander. Excerpt: John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 - 15 July 1953), born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, was an English serial killer active in the 1940s and '50s. He murdered at least six women - including his wife Ethel - by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Christie moved out of Rillington Place in March 1953, and shortly afterwards the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in an alcove in his kitchen. Christie was arrested and convicted of his wife's murder, for which he was hanged in 1953. While serving as an infantryman during the First World War, Christie was injured in a gas attack, which he claimed left him permanently unable to speak loudly. He turned to crime following his discharge from the army and was imprisoned several times, for offences including theft and assault. On the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he was accepted for service as a Special Constable, when the authorities failed to check his criminal record. He committed his murders between 1943 and 1953, usually by strangling his victims after he had rendered them uncon.