John Christie of Rillington Place by Jonathan Oates

Author:Jonathan Oates
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783408917
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Published: 2013-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Christie later said, ‘I did not want to be separated from her. That is why I put her there. She was still in the house’.

In at least two aspects, this account is incorrect. Camps later found no trace of barbiturate in Ethel’s body. Also, the murder was almost certainly premeditated, as Christie withheld his wife’s letter to his sister-in-law, which was written by her on 10 December, but altered the date to one five days later before posting it. However, there seems little doubt that Christie strangled his wife on about 14 December 1952.37

Christie asserted throughout that this was a mercy killing and later said, ‘I loved my wife. I hated seeing her suffer. I decided to end her pain forever. My wife died peaceably and with practically no pain’. His words show that he justified the murder to himself by the use of euphemism, ‘I put her to sleep’. However, unlike four of his other victims, he did not render her unconscious with gas prior to strangulation: she knew she was being killed. His motive was almost certainly his desire to kill again. Having killed already with impunity, he had the serial killer’s addiction to murder and could not resist this aspect of his nature. Christie later said, ‘After she had gone, the way was clear for me to fulfil my destiny’.38

On the following day, Christie added to the letter written by his wife to her sister, ‘We have no envelopes so I posted this for her from work’ and dated it 15 December. Henry Waddington, a local government clerk of Sheffield, recalled seeing it and said it was not in his sister’s handwriting. Christie later wrote the following message in a Christmas card:

Dear Lil,

Ethel has got me to write her cards for her as her rheumatism in her fingers is not so good just now. Doctor says its the weather and she will be O.K. in 2 or 3 days. I am rubbing them for her and it makes them easier. We are in good health now and as soon as Ethel can write (perhaps by Saturday) she is going to send a letter. Hope you like the present. She selected it for you. Reg.

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