John Christie (murderer) conviction. John Christie (murderer) John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953), known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight people – including his wife, Ethel – by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Christie moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953; soon afterward the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in a wallpaper-covered alcove in the kitchen. Two further bodies were discovered in the garden, and
Johann Mayer (serial killer) Johann Mayer (serial killer) Johann Mayer (born April 2, 1886 in Uersfeld - December 29, 1923 in Cologne), nicknamed "Stumpfarm", was a German serial killer, who was sentenced to death for fourfold murder and one manslaughter. Mayer was born in Uersfeld, the son of Gunderath-born non-sedentary day laborer Johann Wilhelm Mayer and his wife Anna Maria (née Knorr). The place of birth in which Mayer was first baptized on his birthday and regularly baptized the next day, was rather coincidental, as his traveling parents did not have a permanent home. As a child Mayer attended the school in Boos, before