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,
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