Theodore Johnson

Theodore Johnson (born 1954) is a Jamaican-born English serial killer who killed his wife and two ex-girlfriends over a span of four decades. After the murder of his last victim, Angela Best, he was sentenced to 26 years imprisonment. Biography Johnson was born in Jamaica as one of 11 children, working on a banana plantation. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1980 with his wife Yvonne, and started working at a car repair service centre shortly before killing his first wife. Murder of Yvonne Johnson In 1981, an argument began between Johnson and Yvonne after she would not let him go to church for being "not dressed well enough". Johnson hit Yvonne over the head with a vase, before pushing her out off the balcony from the couple's ninth-floor Wolverhampton home. He was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to three years in prison. Murder of Yvonne Bennett Eleven years after killing his first wife, Johnson met Yvonne Bennett in Wolverhampton. The couple moved to Finsbury Park in north London together, with Yvonne giving birth to a daughter, but separated after Johnson discovered that she was having an affair. He began stalking Yvonne, and at one point had to be removed from the house by police days before her death. In 1993, while their 2-year-old daughter was sleeping, Johnson strangled Bennett with a belt at their home. He then phoned the police to confess his crime and unsuccessfully tried to hang himself from a tree before giving himself up to authorities.