John Christie (murderer) 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 his
Rillington Primary School. It also falls within the catchment area for Norton College. It was after this village that Rillington Place in Notting Hill west London was named. Rillington Rillington is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. Rillington is on the A64 road, approximately 3 miles east of Malton and south-west of Scarborough. From 1845 until 1930 the village was served by a railway station which connected Rillington on the York to Scarborough Line. Special trains continued until the 1960s, although the station has now been demolished. Historically part of the East Riding of