John Christie: The Story of a Sexually Deranged Killer

A respectable gentleman during the day and a predator during the night

Jules
5 min readDec 13, 2021
John Christie | Photo Credits: Grunge

Everyone’s childhood plays an integral part in shaping them into the person they turn towards being in their adulthood. Many people choose to investigate what a serial killer’s childhood is like, and almost none of them come from happy families.

The minor things can have the most considerable impact. Personality developed to accommodate whatever the child has lacked as a child to survive in the world sometimes ends up being their worst enemies. Mental health plays a massive role in this. The same could be said about the English serial killer John Christie.

A Troubled Childhood

John Christie | Photo Credits: The Sun

John Christie was born in England around 1899. Although Christie was not physically abused as a child, he grew up with a highly macho dictating father and a clueless but overprotective mother. His sisters were the same as their mother, trying to look out for Christie, while his father tried to ensure their feminine qualities did not rub off on his only son. Living with parents with extremely contradicting…

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Jules

Psychology Expert | MSc Social and Cultural Psychology