10 Rillington Place begins in 1944 with John Christie murdering his neighbour Muriel Eady: he lures her to his flat in 10 Rillington Place by promising to cure her bronchitis with a "special mixture", then incapacitates her with Town Gas, strangles her with a piece of rope, and has (implied) sex with her corpse. He buries her in his flat block's communal garden, where a dog uncovers one of his previous victims. In 1949, Tim and Beryl Evans move into 10 Rillington Place, west London, with their infant daughter Geraldine. Beryl is pregnant again and attempts an abortion by taking some pills. When
Serial killer The earliest usage attested of the specific term "serial killer" listed in the "Oxford English Dictionary" was from a 1960s German film article written by Siegfried Kracauer, about the German expressionist film "M" (1931), portraying a pedophilic '. In his book, "" (2004), criminal justice historian Peter Vronsky notes that while Ressler might have coined the English term "serial homicide" within law in 1974, the terms "serial murder" and "serial murderer" appear in John Brophy's book "The Meaning of Murder" (1966). The Washington DC newspaper "Evening Star", in a 1967 review of the book: This use of ""serial" killer" to