Alice

I was going to say, for what it's worth, boy, do we have a banger of a case.

It is a banger.

A banger of a case.

So if you had to wait for a UK case, this was, I'd like to say, worth the wait.

Because my mind just kept spinning the more and more I learned about this case.

And you're going to want to dive in because come back with us to April of 1948.

Timothy Evans and his wife, Beryl, moved into the top flat at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, a neighborhood of London.

Movies are made here.

It seems like a romantic place.

It is, but Notting Hill.

So Timothy Evans was your typical working man in 1940s England.

He was a Walshman from Glamorgan by birth, and he'd moved with his family to London in search of a better life, like many.

Tim had suffered health problems most of his childhood, and he missed a significant part of school because of those health problems.

He was barely literate, and later IQ tests would reveal substantial intellectual deficits.

Whatever intellectual deficits he had didn't prevent him from being something of a rocketeur.

He'd tell tall tales about his ex-boys that few people would believe.

And in reality, he was a lorry driver who had very little excitement.

Save for when he was arrested for stealing a car in 1946.

A serious offense for which he was fined 60 shillings or three pounds.

For reference, the average wage in London at the time was about 5,000 pounds a year.