Foreign News: The Strangler of Notting Hill

London's Notting Hill is a down-at-heels section of shabby streets and seedy tenements close by fashionable Kensington. In one of its dead-end streets sits a mouldering Georgian house that holds a distinction all its own. Three years ago No. 10 Rillington Place became known as "The Murder House." Beryl Evans and her 14-month-old daughter were cruelly strangled there; her husband, Tim Evans, went to the gallows for the crime. Last week, with a decisiveness that sent shivers of fascinated horror down the spine of London, No. 10 Rillington Place renewed its lease on notoriety.

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