pickIn March 1953 the police found 4 dead women at 10 Rillington Place hidden in the walls and floorboards. Reg Christie was soon a suspect and one of the victims was his wife. Just 4 years before, in 1949, another man had been convicted for murdering his own wife and child on the same address.
This isn‘t a story looking into the life of victims and ignoring the suspect. It looks at both, but more importantly it looks at the press and the
AnneCecilie voyeuristic tendencies in humans treating this as entertainment. A tabloid paid for Reg Christie‘s defense attorney. People would bring their chairs and food to sit down outside 10 Rillington Place to watch the police work and buy the tabloids. As one of the journalists covering this case, Harry Procter wrote in his memoir The Secret of Disillusion published 1958: “‘Sit down there, you, that man in the back row‘, he admonished. ‘I‘ll have no 12h
AnneCecilie hypocritical comment! How many murderers‘ stories have you read, sir, in the Sunday papers? If you‘ve never read one, then I‘ll listen to you. If you have read one, then shut up! We poor slavers are your servants, sir, not your masters. We give you what you want because you want it! Let me tell you, sir, before you throw your back-row sear at me, it was tougher for me to do than it is for you to read about it. But you, sir, you were the boss.‘” (edited) 12h
AnneCecilie When Christie was accused of murdering these women, it also opened up the question if the right man had been convicted in 1949, for what are the odds of to murderers living under the same roof? So it also looks at pride and the inability for people in high power to admit mistakes and how that impacts a lot of people 12h
kspenmoll Wonderful, in depth review, 9h
AnneCecilie @kspenmoll Thank you 😊 3h
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