The Wrongful Hanging of Timothy Evans

In 1950, a man named Timothy Evans was convicted and hanged in London for the murders of his wife, Beryl, and their infant daughter. Evans insisted that his downstairs neighbor, John Christie, was the true killer, but his pleas were ignored. Three years later, Christie was exposed as a serial murderer responsible for at least eight deaths, including those of Evans's family. The case became one of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice and led to Evans's posthumous pardon.

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