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The towpath murders (also known as the Thames Towpath Murders and the Teddington Towpath Murders [2]) are a double murder which occurred upon a section of towpath between Teddington Lock and Eel Pie Island in Richmond upon Thames, London, England, on 31 May 1953.
In episode 1 of series 5 of the BBC TV police drama New Tricks, the villain is arrested at Teddington Lock. Thames Television had its purpose-built Teddington Studios at Teddington Lock. [21] In a third-season episode of Murder Maps Teddington Lock was the location of the brutal murder of two teenage girls in the summer of 1953. The murderer ...
In view of police methods of the time and Hannam's book expressing the opinion that the law sometimes must be ignored by detectives, the confession Hannam alleged at trial he had obtained, in addition to the dubious account as to how the primary physical evidence against the perpetrator—the axe alleged to have been used in the murders—was ...
John Christie was born on 8 April 1899 in Northowram, near Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, [3] [4] [better source needed] the sixth in a family of seven children. He had a troubled relationship with his father, carpet designer Ernest John Christie, an austere and uncommunicative man who displayed little emotion towards his children and would punish them for trivial offences.
The lowermost lock on the Thames, Teddington Lock, which is just within Ham's boundary, is accessible via the Teddington Lock Footbridges. In 2001 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution opened the Teddington Lifeboat Station, one of four Thames lifeboat stations, below the lock on the Teddington side. The station became operational in January ...
Another source refers to the murders at Teddington Lock which is also across the river from Teddington on the towpath. It is not clear if the editor made up the title or took it from the source (which is actually about a different case). In any event it must be incorrect to state that the girls were cycling in Teddington itself.
Federal prisons across the United States have been placed on temporary lockdown after two inmates, both reportedly members of MS-13, were killed during a gang fight at a high-security penitentiary ...
Cherry, Bridget & Pevsner, Nikolaus. London 2: South.Yale University Press, 2002. Cloake, John. Cottages and Common Fields of Richmond and Kew: Studies in the Economic and Social History of the Manor of Richmond Up to the Mid-nineteenth Century.