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,
William MacDonald (serial killer) William MacDonald (serial killer) William MacDonald, (17 June 1924 – 12 May 2015), known as "the (Sydney) Mutilator", was classed as Australia's first true serial killer. MacDonald was born in Liverpool, England in 1924. Between 1961 and 1962 MacDonald terrorised Sydney with a string of gruesome murders before being apprehended while working as a porter at Melbourne's Spencer Street railway station on 13 May 1963. His modus operandi was to select his male victims at random (mostly derelicts), lure them into a dark place, violently stab them dozens of times about the head and neck with a long bladed knife,