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1940s murders in the United Kingdom
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The list 1940s murders in the United Kingdom includes
John Christie (murderer), Timothy Evans, Death of June Anne Devaney, Neville Heath and Emily Armstrong.
The list consists of 19 members
and 11 sublists.
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John Christie (murderer)
English serial killer (1899–1953)
Overview: John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953), known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and alleged necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s ...Date of birth: 8 April 1899Date of death: 15 July 1953Age: 54 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: CriminalGender: Male
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Death of June Anne Devaney
English murder victimOverview: The murder of June Anne Devaney was the murder of a girl aged 3 years 11 months which occurred on 15 May 1948 in which June Anne Devaney was abducted from her cot while an inpatient at Queen's Park Hospital ...Date of death: 15 May 1948Occupation: Criminal 0
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Neville Heath
British murderer
Overview: Neville George Clevely Heath (6 June 1917 – 16 October 1946) was an English murderer who killed two young women. He was executed in London in October 1946.Date of birth: 6 June 1917Date of death: 16 October 1946Age: 29 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Criminal 0
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Emily Armstrong
British victim of an unsolved murderOverview: Emily Frances Armstrong (c. 1880 – April 14, 1949) was a British victim of an unsolved murder. She had been beaten to death and later found at her place of employment, a dry cleaner's shop on St John's ... 0
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John George Haigh
English serial killer (1909–1949)
Overview: John George Haigh (24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer who was convicted for the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed ...Date of birth: 24 July 1909Date of death: 10 August 1949Age: 40 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: CriminalGender: Male 0
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Timothy Evans
Welsh, Victim
Overview: Timothy John Evans (20 November 1924 – 9 March 1950) was a Welshman wrongfully accused of the murder of his wife and infant daughter at their residence at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London. In ...Date of birth: 20 November 1924Date of death: 9 March 1950Age: 25 (age at death)Nationality: WelshOccupation: VictimGender: Male 0
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Gordon Cummins
BRitish spree killer
Overview: Gordon Frederick Cummins (18 February 1914 – 25 June 1942) was a British serial killer known as the Blackout Killer, the Blackout Ripper and the Wartime Ripper who committed the murders of four women and ...Date of birth: 18 February 1914Date of death: 25 June 1942Age: 28 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: CriminalHeight: 5' 7" (170 cm) 0
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Olive Balchin
1946 murder in Manchester, EnglandOverview: Olive Balchin (c. 1906 – 20 October 1946) was a British murder victim whose body was found near a bomb site in Manchester, England. The murder weapon, a bloodstained hammer of a leather beater, was found ... 0
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Udham Singh
Indian revolutionary
Overview: Udham Singh (26 December 1899 – 31 July 1940) was an Indian revolutionary best known for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer on 13 March 1940 in what has been described as an avenging of the Jallianwalla Bagh ... 0
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John Bodkin Adams
British physician and fraudster (1899–1983)
Overview: John Bodkin Adams (21 January 1899 – 4 July 1983) was a British general practitioner, convicted fraudster, and suspected serial killer. Between 1946 and 1956, 163 of his patients likely died while ...Date of birth: 21 January 1899Date of death: 4 July 1983Age: 84 (age at death)Nationality: IrishOccupation: DoctorGender: Male 0
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Murder of Muriel Drinkwater
Unsolved 1946 Welsh child murder case
Overview: The murder of Muriel Drinkwater is an unsolved 1946 child murder case from Wales. Drinkwater, a 12-year-old schoolgirl, was raped and shot in the woods in Penllergaer, Swansea. The case became known as ...Date of death: 27 June 1946 0
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12.Overview: Margaret Cook was a woman who was shot dead in 1946 outside the Blue Lagoon nightclub in Carnaby Street, London. In 2015 a man living in Canada confessed to the shooting. 0
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Jack William Avery
British policeman, murdered on dutyOverview: Jack William Avery was a War Reserve Constable who was murdered in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1940, having served less than one year with the Metropolitan Police Service.Date of death: 6 July 1940Nationality: British 0
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Michael O'Dwyer
British colonial administrator (1864–1940)
Overview: Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer GCIE KCSI (28 April 1864 – 13 March 1940) was Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in India from 1912 until 1919. O'Dwyer endorsed General Reginald Dyer's action regarding ...Date of birth: 1864Date of death: 13 March 1940Age: 75 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Politician 0
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August Sangret
Canadian murderer
Overview: August Sangret (28 August 1913 – 29 April 1943) was a French-Canadian soldier, convicted and subsequently hanged for the September 1942 murder of 19-year-old Joan Pearl Wolfe in Surrey, England. This murder ...Date of birth: 28 August 1913Date of death: 29 April 1943Age: 29 (age at death)Nationality: CanadianOccupation: Military 0
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Thomas Ley
Australian and English murderer and politician
Overview: Thomas John Ley (28 October 1880 – 29 July 1947) was an Australian politician who was convicted of murder in England. He is widely suspected to have been involved in the deaths of a number of people ...Date of birth: 28 October 1880Date of death: 29 July 1947Age: 66 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Politician 0
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Cameo murder
1949 double murder in Liverpool, EnglandOverview: On the evening of 19 March 1949, the Cameo cinema in Liverpool, England, was the scene of a brutal double murder which led to a miscarriage of justice and the longest trial in British history at the time ... 0
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18.Overview: The cleft chin murder was a killing which occurred as part of a string of crimes during 1944, and was mentioned in George Orwell's essay "Decline of the English Murder". It became known as the "cleft ... 0
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Rayleigh bath chair murder
1943 homicide in Rayleigh, Essex, EnglandOverview: The Rayleigh bath chair murder was a 1943 incident of patricide in which a disabled man was killed in Rayleigh, Essex, England. An anti-tank grenade had been rigged to his hooded wheelchair, a conveyance ... 0
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