Rillington Place Rillington Place Rillington Place is a three-part biographical crime drama about the case of serial killer John Christie, and the wrongful execution of Timothy Evans. It premiered on 29 November 2016 on BBC One. The miniseries revolves around the home life of John Christie and his wife Ethel as he commits a string of murders during the 1940s and early 1950s. The three episodes each tell the story as seen by the three main characters: Ethel, Timothy Evans and John Christie. Episode 1 is called Ethel. Episode 2 is called Tim. Episode 3 is called Reg. On 29 November 2016,
Ludovic Kennedy Rillington Place, none of which could be ascribed to Evans. Indeed, two of the skeletons found at the house dated back to the war – long before Evans and his family had moved in. After a long campaign, Evans was pardoned in 1966. The scandal helped in the abolition of the death penalty in the UK. Kennedy's book was filmed in 1970 as "10 Rillington Place", starring John Hurt as Evans and Richard Attenborough as Christie. In 1985, Kennedy published "The Airman and the Carpenter" (), in which he argued that Richard Hauptmann did not kidnap and murder Charles Lindbergh's