A Serial Killer Helps Abolish the Death Penalty

<p>March 20, 1953. A middle-aged man named John Christie packs up a suitcase and leaves his apartment in Notting Hill, London. No one knows where he’s gone. But a few days later, people realize why he left… a new tenant makes an unsettling discovery: bodies, hidden in the walls of the kitchen. Today: the case of serial killer John Christie. Why, decades later, are parts of his story still a mystery? And how did that very mystery play into a big change in the UK – the abolition of the death penalty?&nbsp;</p><br><p>Thank you to our guests: Professor Kate Winkler Dawson, author of the book <em>Death in the Air</em> and the forthcoming book <em>All That is Wicked.</em><strong> </strong>Jonathan Oates, author of the book <em>John Christie of Rillington Place: Biography of a Serial Killer</em>. And Sir Julian Knowles, author of <em>The Abolition of the Death Penalty in the United Kingdom; How it Happened and Why it Still Matters.</em>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>