When John Reginald Halliday Christie was arrested in March 1953, it was for a series of macabre sexual killings. A former model scout during the first world war, then a Special Constable, balding, bespectacled John Christie will be remembered instead as one of the UK’s worst serial murderers. An obsessive necrophile, he would gas and strangle his female victim’s to death and after performing disgusting assaults on their corpses, would entomb them in his walls and bury them below his house and back garden.

‘The New Criminologist’ is now hosting an auction page where murder memorabila can be purchased from our select sellers. Alongside letters from Dennis Nilsen, Peter Sutcliffe and Richard Ramirez, is the front door key to the genuine House of Horror that was 10 Rillington Place. Renamed Ruston Close many years ago, to deter curiosity seekers, this key once granted access to the home where Christie murdered his women, and where they lay buried.

Also featured on the site is an original painting by one of the US’s most fiendish killers - John Wayne Gacy.

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Posted: 09|13|05 at 9:42 am. Filed under: US News.