One of London’s most recent and prolific serial killers, Nilsen murdered at least twelve men by luring them to his flat in Muswell Hill between 1978-1983.
HIS FIRST MISTAKE…was subletting his flat because when the new tenants went to hang a bracket on a wall, the wallpaper came away to reveal a hidden alcove, in which three bodies were stacked. It wasn’t until sixteen years later that he was pardoned after Christie admitted to the killings and others since.įor more on this case, check out Death in the Air by Kate Winkler Dawson Christie gave evidence against the man in court and he was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging in 1950. Although police searched the house and garden, they didn’t find the bodies that had been stored in an outdoor wash-house, although when they did, during a later search, they arrested Evans. Over a ten year period, he killed at least eight people including the wife and baby daughter of Timothy Evans, a neighbor in an adjoining flat. His wife Ethel was visiting friends when he murdered the girl by strangling her and burying her in their back garden. John Christie (AKA The Rillington Place Strangler)Ĭhristie admitted that his murderous spree started in April 1943 when he met an Austrian prostitute who, despite being married, he took back to his small flat in Rillington Place. If we’d had the benefit of DNA testing back then, we would have been able to deduce if Pearcey was, in fact, the Ripper, as stamps licked by the prime suspect were analyzed in 2006 and found to belong to a woman. Passers-by, suspicious of her behavior called the police who found her home splattered with blood. HER FIRST MISTAKE…was the sheer audacity she displayed by wheeling her murder victims out for everyone to see. Later that same night, she brazenly pushed Phoebe’s pram around the streets of North London, though it is not known whether the child was in it and already deceased or whether the pram was used to transport Phoebe’s body, which was later found under a pile of rubbish in Hampstead. Pearcey invited Phoebe Hogg to her home where she bludgeoned her to death and smothered her eighteen-month-old daughter. Alerted by Cream’s detailed knowledge of each case, the tourist mentioned it to a policeman and Scotland Yard put him under surveillance.Īlthough Pearcey was only convicted of murdering her lover’s wife and child, she is suspected of being a serial killer by the suggestion that she may have been Jill the Ripper-the only female suspected of being the notorious Jack the Ripper. HIS FIRST MISTAKE…was offering an American visitor a tour of where the victims had lived and met their fate. In 1891, he set sail back to London and settled in Lambeth Bridge Road, but within a year, four prostitutes were murdered after accepting a drink from Cream which was laced with strychnine. Accused of her murder, Cream fled to the U.S, where he is thought to have killed at least another four people. But what caused their ultimate downfall? I looked into each case to discover their First Mistake… Thomas Neill Cream (AKA The Lambeth Poisoner)Ī physician and surgeon, it is believed that Cream killed his first victim in 1876, although his wife’s cause of death was initially recorded as “consumption.” But in 1879, a woman who he was allegedly having an affair with was found dead in an alleyway behind his offices, pregnant and poisoned with chloroform. But complacency started to set in-it always does, and thank goodness, for if it weren’t for their slip-ups, the victim numbers would have soared. The killers were clever and careful, and the police were baffled by the growing list of missing persons.
From as far back as the early 1800s, the once poverty-stricken areas either side of the River Thames have witnessed poisonings, stranglings, and deaths by acid bath. But it’s the streets of London that have seen the grisliest goings-on. has borne some of the most notorious serial killers the world has ever seen. With centuries of history to dive into, the U.K.
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