Innocent Man
Who was the man who insisted on his innocence all the way to noose and was even contemplating the name of a woman who might have committed the crime as the trap door fell?
shareThis appears to be the guy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_John_Evans
shareIt was't a woman's name, it was a man.
Christie, as in John Reginald Halliday Christie.
As in "10 Rillington Place" - a creepy performance by Richard Attenborough
Heard you were swearing. Mind if I join in?
That really is a chilling scene. It makes you wonder how many poor souls were wrongly convicted and executed until forensic investigation became more advanced.
shareForensic evidence might seem damning enough to execute on, but it too is frequently faulty and misleading.
shareUnfortunately you're right. I have heard one too many stories of people wrongly convicted due to bad evidence. It's a scary thought.
“Dinsdale, He was a nice boy...... He nailed my head to a coffee table.”
Not many if at all. James Hanratty has recently been re-affirmed as guilty after all, despite decades of protest. His DNA was additional evidence to that which convicted him. Timothy Evans probably killed his wife and then fled leaving the baby - then killed by Christie. Evans was only tried and convicted for the murder of his child, not his wife.
shareOther way around, I think, with Timothy Evans. Although Evans technically confessed to both murders, there's a strong suggestion that he didn't accurately know what he was signing his name to, and he very quickly recanted his confession and professed his innocence on both counts right up until the moment of his death. Christie did confess to the murder of Evans' wife, though he refused to confess to the murder of the baby.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.