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if it wasn’t for you guys so. Thank you. So today we're going to be
talking about a serial killer. It's been a while since I’ve
talked about a serial killer I feel like. I could be wrong, I don’t know. I feel like all of my days are blending
together, I have no idea where I’m at. So with that being said, today we're going
to be talking about John Christie. Have you heard of him? Well... Let me tell you, this guy
was all sorts of messed up. John! If you’re ever curious as to
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I will stop yip-yapping and get right into the story. John Christie was born in Halifax,
Yorkshire, on April 8th, 1898. He was the fifth of seven kids. Johns' parents, his father
worked as a carpenter designer, and his mother was an amateur actress. John was said to have a pretty
rough relationship with his father, who ran a strict household and
showed little to no love towards his kids. I do feel like that is just the
common theme with adults back then, but. John would say that his older siblings
would pick on or just bully him daily. There really was no escape from it, because also he would
go to school and like, he was just a bit of a loner
and didn’t have any friends, and he would come home,
and feel like a loner, and just get picked on. His mother, not much
was really said about her, other than she was
an amateur actress, and it was like, okay? But what was said about her, was that, she was just
very overprotective of her kids, and she tend to baby them a little
too much, you know what I’m saying? It must be hard to be a parent. I feel like there’s just no right-- I have a lot of side notes today, I guess. (laughs) John's father kept himself
busy by just working a lot, and then also he ran an organization, or he was like a leader in an organization
called the Primrose League. The Primrose League was an organization for spreading conservative
principles in Great Britain, and some its goals were to uphold
and support God, the queen, and the country, and also promoted purity
among the working classes. That’s just like two little snip bits... But John's father was involved with
that organization, and it took up a lot of his time. At the age of eight, John went with
his family to his grandfather’s funeral, and John would later say that
this had a profound effect on him. It was his first real experience with death, and when he went to the funeral,
it was an open casket, which... Will f--k anyone up. You know what I’m saying? (laughs) I don’t know why I’m laughing,
but like that s--t is real. Anyways, so seeing his
grandfather’s body laying in the open casket, it just made him a little bit
more curious about death, and like, what happens after, and the fact that his
grandfather's body, is just a body, like it just had him really thinking. Had his noggin going. And John would say that he remembered every little detail about how
his grandfather looked. and it was just one of those
moments in life that he never forgot, just timestamp on that
moment in his life. John was pretty unpopular in school,
he didn’t have many friends, and afterschool, a lot of kids, you know, they would go
and play together, play some sports, hang out at a local playground. But John said that he liked
roaming around the cemeteries nearby instead. He just kinda sounds
like a little, like a goth kid, you know, like hang out in the cemetery. I think that’s stereotyping Bailey. Okay. So at the age of 15, John
left school to go work full time. So he got a job working
as a movie projectionist. One night he had met
a girl at his place of work, and she was a little bit older than him, but you know, they were hanging out, and she invited John
to hang out with her. Hang out, you know? Just hang out. So this lady friend told John that
he could “have his way with her”, but it was said that
John failed to perform. She went around and told friends that
John over here, he couldn’t perform, and then all the other kids
gave him the nickname “Reggie No D--k”, and would make fun of him
whenever they saw him. Reggie was his middle name, so there was a period of time
where he went by Reggie, and that’s how they got
Reggie No D--k, from his middle name. Anyways, so they were making
fun of him, calling him Reggie No D--k, and obviously this is upsetting to him,
he already didn’t have many friends and now he’s Reggie No D--k. How’s this gonna end? I wonder how it's gonna end! At 17, John was caught stealing
from his work and he got fired. So once he got fired and his parents
found out, they kicked him out of the house. I'm not really sure where he went
when he was kicked out of the house, but it was like
shortly after, when he turned 18, that’s when he was
called up to serve in the army, and he was sent to France
in the height of WWI. So John would be there for about a year, and then in 1919-- Wild times, 1919. John was left with eye and
throat injuries, from a mustard attack, and he left the army
with a small disability pension, and then he would move back to Halifax, where he took a job
working at the local post office. So while working at
the local post office, that’s when he began dating
a woman named Ethel. And him and Ethel knew each other because they actually kinda like
grew up around each other, like they knew of each other, you know? And then when they got older,
they re-met, fell in love, and then they ended up getting married. They got married in May of 1920,
and they were both 22 years old. But of course-- Well, I’m sorry no, not of course. Unfortunately, the joyful
marriage didn’t last long. When does a joyful marriage last long? Am I right? (fake chuckle) I'm kidding. You see, what had happened was, John was caught stealing mail
from his work and he was sent to jail, and this would be the first
of several visits to jail for petty crimes. So John goes to jail for a
little bit of time, and then when he gets out, his wife, Ethel, would leave for the
weekend and like visit her family, while John was at home. So one weekend, she goes
away to visit her family. And while Ethel is away,
John sure does play. John fancied the local sex workers
and when Ethel was away, he would go out at night and find local sex workers to bring back
to his place for some sweet loving. He was doing this from time to time. John brings back, you know,
a sex worker to his home, and Ethel, surprise surprise,
she’s home, you know? She’s home early. And she walks in and she sees that
he’s with a girl, another woman, she’s upset for good reason. Must I explain more? No. So that’s when they decided that it'd be
best if the couple separated, so they did. So John moves to London, and while living
there, he would be jailed three more times, it was mainly theft, and then the last one
was he was attacking a woman, I believe it was a sex worker. Nine years go by. John, once again, is sitting in jail, and I guess he’s just
feeling lonely or something, but he decides he’s
gonna write Ethel a letter. He’s gonna write her a letter,
and he’s going to ask for forgiveness and for her to take him back
once he gets out. Ethel receives the letter and
she just decides that, you know what? She wants to be with him,
and that’s what she wants. So she, at that time,
was working as a typist, and she decides to
just give up her job, and move from Yorkshire to, the then, seedy
West London area of Notting Hill. Side note but, isn’t Notting Hill
considered iconic and upscale now? Yeah well during this time, it was
full of rats, nobody wanted to live there, every article I kept reading kept
referring to it as seedy and dirty. So in 1938, the couple, they moved
to the ground floor of 10 Rillington Place, which was one of three different
apartments in a rundown house, it was converted into apartments. But they had a tiny garden,
and they also all had to share a bathroom. Not ideal. In 1939, John would be back
in uniform to serve in WW2, as a special constable
in the War Reserve Police. So pretty much, this gave John full powers like a police officer, or of a police officer. Oh dear. This can’t be good. (slight chuckle) At this time, they didn’t do like
any type of background check on John to pull up, I don’t know,
previous convictions or something. Maybe that could’ve like helped a little bit, and not give him that title, they didn’t do that. But okay. Well John would say, you know, that this uniform just
made him feel very powerful. Which is just not good. Which is not good. So in 1943, the couple's still together,
living in their apartment, their flat. Ethel decided that she was gonna
go away to visit her family for the weekend. John was feeling a little lonely, okay. He’s home alone, and he just
wants some company for the night. He puts on his uniform, and he goes
looking for someone to hold him tight. Well, no he didn’t that’s a lie. So he wears his uniform, and he goes
down to where the local sex workers are at, and he picks up a 17-year-old girl, who’s working as a sex worker first of all, which is like, what? Poor thing. Probably didn’t even wanna be there. But he picks up a 17-year-old sex worker,
and he brings her back to his place. He tries to be a good hostess, offers them-- Or her, I’m sorry. Something to like drink, you know-- "You wanna hang out?
Have a seat in my humble abode". When she wasn’t really looking,
John takes a rope and he strangles her. Strangles her to death. Once he knew that she was indeed dead, he first tried to hide the body
beneath the floorboards. He’s trying to lift up the floorboards
and get that body down there, but then he realizes like
"Oh this isn’t gonna work. What do I do?". So John instead waits until
everybody in his housing unit, he waits until everyone goes asleep, because what’s going to happen is,
he’s gonna drag the body outside, but everyone’s windows are facing this
little garden area that they share. So he’s waiting until everyone goes to bed. Lights out. Dark. He drags the victim’s body outside, and he first is like trying to hide
the body behind some bushes. He’s like "Meh". Trying to put some leaves on here
or something, no one will know. And while he hides the body, he then goes,
and he digs a grave in the front of the garden. So he’s digging and the
body’s out there too. John why didn’t you
move the body after the fact? But its fine, he’s doing it
and nobody’s noticing. Well it's late. So he digs this grave, and then
John is able to bury the body, cover it up, make it look
like nothing happened, and sadly it stayed there,
undisturbed, for a decade. So soon after that, John goes
and finds work as a clerk in a factory. So while working there,
that’s when he met another woman who he found very attractive, 31 years old. He was enjoying what he was looking at. John was very friendly with her,
and they seemed to really hit it off. So one night, John asked if she
wants to come back to his place, because once again,
Ethel was leaving for the evening, and he was like,
"Hey, you should come over to my place". The woman agrees and she
indeed goes over to John's place. Once she’s inside, he’s like, "Hey, come sit on this
reclining chair, it's comfortable." "Make yourself at home.
Let me get you something to drink". While she’s sitting there, she was
tricked into inhaling coal gas fumes. Honestly, I really couldn’t
figure out how she was tricked, or how he would trick her
into inhaling coal gas fumes, but she became unconscious. While she’s passed out, John,
unfortunately, sadly, disturbingly, rapes her. Sexually violates her. And then, he grabs a
stocking and strangles her. Last week we talked about stockings. Well, we didn’t talk about stockings. Cindy in last week’s episode,
she was also strangled with stockings. What is it with stockings? I saw a couple of
comments suggesting that it was maybe a sexual fetish type of thing. Which was actually interesting. Maybe. Or maybe it was just what was handy. Either way, he strangles her. In John's confession later on, he said “I gazed down at her body and felt a quiet
peaceful thrill. I had no regrets”. John then buries this victim alongside his
first victim, in the front garden as well. In 1948, a truck driver named Timothy Evans,
his wife Beryl, and their Baby Geraldine, moved into a flat above John’s place. It was said that the family became
quite friendly with John and Ethel, but would kind of just
talk with John a little bit more, and at some point, it was said that
Beryl had found herself pregnant again. She had expressed to John
how the family couldn’t afford to have another baby at that time,
and how she didn’t want the baby. John was able to convince Beryl that
he could perform, or carry out, an abortion. And she agreed, so... I was about to say
we can’t judge, but. I mean, it is what it is. So yeah. So John's telling her like
"Yeah I could do an abortion". And so it’s said that he did so. Sadly though, that same day, Beryl died. Although, it is unclear
how exactly she died. Many believe that she died because
of John performing an abortion on her, and like something
just went horribly wrong. Some disagree and say that
John intentionally killed her. Some believe that John
didn’t actually perform an abortion. It’s unclear. But, poor Beryl passed away. So Beryl’s husband, Timothy,
he goes down to the police station, and tells the police that,
he, himself, Timothy, had killed his wife and stuffed
her body parts down the drain. Yeah. So for good reason,
police go down to the house. They were unable to find Beryl’s body, and they also failed to uncover
the bodies that John had buried in the garden. But after several visits out to the house,
police, they were able to find-- They eventually found Beryl’s
body stashed in the bathroom, and next to her was their
14-month-old baby, who was also deceased. So police come back to
Timothy and they’re like-- Who is in jail actually, I’m sorry. He's in jail. And they’re like "Hey, we found Beryl and..." "She was in the bathroom,
we found her body there" "We also found your baby
there with her as well". And it was said that Timothy was just
shocked, speechless, and then emotional. Then after some time
for him to process it all, that’s when Timothy’s
story dramatically changed. So then Timothy was like,
"Okay, change of plans." "It was actually the neighbor John
who was the one that killed them". Timothy goes on to say that;
John told him that the abortion had gone wrong, and that their baby
was going to be adopted, since Timothy wouldn’t be able to
take care of the baby himself. So Timothy at this point had no idea
that his 14-month-old was dead. It was said that Timothy,
he had an extremely low IQ, and was believed that John knew this,
and took advantage of him. At this point Timothy wasn’t very reliable because at first,
he’s full on confessing, right? So then he comes around
and says, "Actually no, it was John", but then they had no evidence
that it was John who indeed did it. So instead, Timothy,
he gets taken to court. Has to go through the
whole process of court. And being convicted also, right? So Timothy gets taken
to court, and get this... Get this. Timothy was convicted
and sentenced for murder. Sadly, Timothy was
hanged on March 9th, 1950, for a crime that he didn’t do! Well, we're pretty sure he didn’t do it. This poor man died, because of John. F--k. John was like, "Whew close call, am I right?"
(fake laugh) Ethel, that’s when she said that
she really noticed a change in John, throughout the whole trial for Timothy. Ethel said that John's behavior
was becoming more odd. He would be complaining about headaches, and he seemed to be suffering
from memory loss, amnesia, and he just seemed
to be under a lot of stress. And she just couldn’t figure out why. But John pretty much just
walked away from that situation. So on December 14th, 1942, the tensions
between the two I guess were just-- Just they were... John seemed to just
never be happy with Ethel. They were fighting a lot,
just screaming a lot. And Ethel just kinda seemed to be
going more and more, to go see her family, to go visit them, and she just
didn’t really wanna be around John. On December 14th, 1942, while Ethel
was asleep, John strangled her. He strangled poor Ethel and killed her. Once he knew that she was dead, he then buried her
under the floorboards in their flat. The whole reason,
I personally get so invested, or curious about true crime
and just serial killers and stuff, is because I'd wanna understand,
or what I’m always trying to understand, is what in the world goes
through someone’s head that says like "Yes, the floorboards, lift them,
lift them up, put the body there", like what is that? That’s what I’m always
trying to figure out, and I don’t think
I’ll ever figure it out, but I just wanna know! How do you-- What? The floorboard? You lifted-- You put your wife? Huh? Like, what?! I just wanna understand, but I won’t unless
I become like a psychologist or something. Anyways, so he kills his wife,
and he puts her under the floorboards. So people would ask John: "Hey, where’s Ethel? What’s she up to?
Haven’t seen her in a while", and then John would be like: "Oh yeah, you know. She actually
moved back north to go live with her family", and that would be that. Ethel, she would always
write letters to her family back at home, so John knew like, "I need to keep these letters
going or they’re gonna suspect something", right? So he ends up writing
a letter to Ethel's family, explaining that he would be
the one writing the letters from now on, because Ethel had arthritis
and she couldn’t do it herself. I’m sure they probably
thought something was a little odd, but for the time being
it just seemed to work. So John at this time
didn’t have a job. Now he needed some money. So what’s he gonna do? He goes back to Ethel's body,
which is under the floorboard! And he takes off her wedding ring,
and he ends up selling that, and he also sells his wife’s watch. Gets some money, threw that. Gross that he did that, but
that’s where we're at right now. Then he also forged her signature
to empty out her bank account, all of her savings, everything. Which wasn’t a lot,
but it was some money. John sold every piece of
furniture that he had in his flat, pretty much just was trying to get any kind
of money together that he possibly could. So John was really excited
about this new freedom he had. He had a whole flat
to himself, and some cash, and no wife who’s gonna be
upset with him about anything, he’s just like "Hell yeah baby. Woo!". John would go back to
what he enjoyed most, which was to go out at night and pick up
local sex workers, bring them back to his place, then it went back to him killing them. So he would go out, bring the
sex workers back to his house, he would then gas them, strangle them,
have sexual relations with the victim’s body and then he would either stuff
their bodies in the floorboard, or in a little alcove in the kitchen. Now John would do this
to three more victims. In March, 1953, John finally moved out
of Rillington Place, and went on the run, living around West London,
mainly he was sleeping on the streets, he really didn’t have anywhere to go. So his old place is like
up for rent, and of course, you know, someone new moves in. It wasn’t long until
they noticed a very intense... (sniffs) Stench coming out of
the walls or something. So the new tenants
said that they, you know, they thought maybe it was like
a dead rat under the floorboards. Damn rats. Everywhere. So they start poking around, and they're
peeling back newly wallpapered walls, and then, that’s when they
discovered what seemed to be a woman’s leg, behind
the wall, in the kitchen alcove. Yeah, oh Jesus. Oh dear. A leg? Welcome home. So police come out to
the place and find everything. They find the bodies that
were stuffed in the floorboards, behind the walls, and in the yard. Police also found a tin, a tobacco tin,
containing four sets of pubic hair. All neatly packed together. I’m guessing it was-- You know how a lot of serial killers,
they’ll have what’s called a trophy, or trophies, something that they keep to kinda
remind them of the murder, the killing, so I’m thinking that’s what this was. I mean, I could only
assume that’s what it is, I don’t know what
he was doing with that. But okay, pubic hair, cool. The police are able to look up
who lived at the place beforehand, and they pull up,
you know, it's John. So they put out an alert for the police officers
to keep a look out for John Christie, okay? "We think he killed a bunch of people. So
if you can keep an eye out, that’d be great". Unfortunately for John, he was
found pretty quickly by a police officer who was kinda walking
around patrolling the area. John was on the street, because
he didn’t have a house at the time, he’s just living on the street
and police officers saw him, recognize him, placed him under arrest. So John is taken in to be interrogated, and John would refer to the murders as
“those regrettable happenings”, and John also said that
they were all accidental, that they were all actually caused by the
victims themselves, during their struggles. "If they didn’t struggle,
they probably wouldn’t be dead". So, he denied having sexual
relations with any of the victims. Now eventually, John would
confess to at least one murder, but he pleaded not guilty,
on the grounds of insanity. John started to give random
little quotes to justify his insanity plea, this is what it said in his biography. But he was saying, “for me, a corpse has a beauty and
dignity which a living body could never hold”, and when it came to
his wife’s death he said “I removed the one obstacle that for 10
years had apparently held me in check." "After she had gone, the way was
clear for me to fulfill my destiny”. I feel like he could’ve tried a little
harder with those quotes John! Not the best ones but okay. It was saying that he was kind of
speaking more like this, more freely I guess, just to justify that he was
using the insanity plea. So John's trial began
on June 22nd, 1953. It only took three days for
them to come up with a verdict. John was found guilty
of four of the murder. Dismissing the insanity plea, the judge
described the case as “a horrible one”. John was sentenced to death. While John was
waiting for his execution, there had been some talks
about the Timothy Evans case, and whether there had
been a miscarriage of justice. Hm. I wonder. Because government officials refuse
to take responsibility for their errors, they decided, nah. "Timothy deserved what he got,
you know? He was a bad person". Many members of Parliament, and the
Howard League for Penal Reform, refused to accept this answer, and they wanted to question
John more about Timothy’s case. Gather more information. Maybe they can further prove that John was the one that killed
Timothy's wife, and child, and therefore the justice system
had really failed Timothy. Because John, at this point,
hadn’t confessed to that. He was still letting
Timothy take the blame. But, unfortunately, on July 15th, 1953,
John was hanged at Pentonville Prison. So like, the people of the parliament
couldn’t further ask questions in hopes to get some answers
about Timothy’s case. After John's death, the public was
still pushing to bring awareness, and keep the conversation going, of the possible
miscarriage of justice on Timothy’s case. And they were doing
this up until 1966. Mr. Justice Barbin ruled; “It is more probable than
not that Timothy killed Beryl," "and it is more probable than not
that Timothy did not kill his baby”. Sooo okay. This wasn’t a good answer for people
still campaigning against this case, but it was enough to get
Timothy a royal pardon. Timothy’s body was
exhumed from Pentonville Prison, where it had laid in an
unmarked grave, close to John's. (scoffs) Timothy’s body was moved to a new
location, I believe closer to his wife, where his wife was buried. John’s old flat at Rillington Place
was flattened in 1978. A new residential area was built on top
of the site, to cover up the burial ground. There also seemed to be,
based off the pictures I was looking at, there seems to be like a little garden area,
where actually the bodies were buried. There was no note or anything,
no sign about what happened there. I don’t think they have to though, right? I actually didn’t look that up. I don’t think they have to. Because some would say that, the grounds
in London have been around forever, right? So like, where isn’t a place,
a piece of land that isn’t contaminated with death, and blood,
and stabbings, and killings, and stuff. And that my friends, is the
story about John Christie, and the awful crimes that
he committed for no reason. What was his motive? I don’t know. I don’t know. Most of the times, I feel like
we can get some kind of understanding by these serial killers upbringing. But there just wasn’t that much
information about his mom and dad, other than his dad was like strict,
and his mom was like babying them. That’s really all I could find. Like what was his deal man? He just wanted revenge against
people that made fun of him maybe? I don’t know!
I don’t know. This is just... He’s a piece of s--t. Poor Timothy and his family. (sigh) This looks weird, huh? Like what part of my body is this? Anyways, that’s the awful
story about John Christie. I don’t really know what to say. What can you say at that point? Let me know your guys’
thoughts down below. Okay, I feel like the last
couple of stories I’ve done, it’s just been like a
mishandling of police work, the justice system, and the justice system again, right? And it’s like for-- (sigh) Why is it so hard for them to just
admit that they made a mistake. Why!? I don’t get it. Will it ever be just-- (stutters) No! (laughs) I am angry. Anyways, let me know
your thoughts down below. How’d you like todays look? I don’t know how I feel about it, I kind of lowkey feel like... It looks like my name
should be Sandy or something, and I would smell of diet coke,
cigarettes, and nail polish remover. Right? That’s what this look is giving me. Anyways, I hope you guys
have a wonderful day today. I just really love and appreciate you guys
so much for hanging out with me. Can’t say thank you enough
for all the love and support you’re constantly throwing my way. You’re so kind. This sounds so cheesy. I just don’t know how to voice,
vocalize how thankful I am for you, and I just really appreciate you. But I sound angry when I’m saying that. So what’s that about? But I hope you know that. And I do hope you have a good rest
of your day, you make good choices. A big thank you to CASETiFY
for partnering with me on today’s video. Let me know who you want me
to talk about next week. But other than that, I’ll be seeing you guys later. Bye. Ouch. Bye. (suspicious music)
