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Murder Mile UK True Crime

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SEVEN TIME AWARD NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards as Best True Crime Podcast. Murder Mile UK True Crime is a unique London-based true-crime podcast, focused on Soho, the West End and West London, presented as a guided walk of 300+ untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murder cases. If you’re looking for intensely researched and in-depth multipart series, Murder Mile has covered spree killer Gordon Cummings aka 'The Blackout Ripper', John George Haigh 'The Acid Bath Murderer', John Reginald Christie of '10 Rillington Place', Anthony Hardy 'The Camden Ripper', Dennis Nilsen 'The Muswell HIll Killer', The Thames Towpath Murderer, Daniel Gonzales 'The Freddy Krueger killer', The Soho Strangler regarded as the second Jack the Ripper, Michael Jamieson The Shoe Box Killer, M4 r*pist John Steed, London cannibal Peter Bryan, and ‘the Devil’s Disciple’ Patrick MacKay, and coming soon, the Hammersmith Nudes alias ‘Jack the Stripper’. As well an unearthing new angle and evidence on infamous British murder cases; such as Gunther Podola, Emmy Werner, David Frooms, Alice Gross, Andrezej Kunowski, Katerina Koneva, Emily Beilby Kaye, The Denmark Place Fire, The Bombing of the Admiral Duncan, Alfredo Zomparelli, Karl Gustav Hulton, and previously unsolved cases like 'The Night Porter', Gladys Hanrahan, ‘Fat Fred’, The Old Lady Killer, the Bayswater arsonist, the gay panic, and a wealth of cases you won’t have heard before, and won’t hear anywhere else, as well as specialists pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury. Covering just 20 square miles of West London, Murder Mile gives into thrilling and heart-wrenching cases involving serial killers, assassinations, massacres, hitmen, torturers, drug dealers, cults, child killers, extortion, prostitution, gangland slayings, abortionists, poisoners, slavery, and personal tragedy. Having garnered more than 3000+ five-star reviews, Murder Mile has been praised in the press as Podcast Magazine's Hot 50, The Telegraph's Top 5, 4th Best True-Crime Podcast by This Week, iTunes Top 25 Podcast, Crime & Investigation Channel's Top 20 True-Crime Podcasts, also seen on BBC Radio, Sky News, The Guardian and TalkRadio's Podcast of the Week. Murder Mile has been the primary research on true crime podcasts Casefile, Morbid, My Favorite Murder, and Michael was also a consultant on highly acclaimed podcast series Bad Woman: The Blackout Ripper hosted by historian Hallie Rubenhold, author of 'The Five'. Murder Mile UK True Crime has had 15 million+ downloads and continues to grow year on year, as it maintains (and improves on) its quality in research, storytelling and sound design. It continually strives to be original, different and always bring the audience a podcast series they can’t hear anywhere else. Murder Mile is unique and its fans appreciate that. Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA · Instagram· FaceBook· ThreadsOr search for everything on Komi Support the show via Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes — page 15

  1. #167 - The Bloody Butler - Part Two (Belgravia, London, UK)

    This is Part Two of Two of The Bloody Butler. With their employer on holiday in Scotland, on Saturday 9th August 1969 at 2:30pm, Frank & Victor were seen enjoying a pleasant lunch…

    01:05:02
  2. #166 - The Bloody Butler - Part One (Belgravia, London, Britain)

    This is Part One of Two. On the next morning of Sunday 10th August at 09:08am, Victor Ford-Lloyd the butler to Sir William Ackroyd entered the top floor flat at 69 Eaton Place aft…

    01:00:20
  3. #165 - To Love, To Die, Forever (Piccadilly, London, UK)

    On Sunday 30th October 1932, Mabel & Herbert checked into Room 201, at the far-left end of the second floor. They had enjoyed a romantic week together, they been out to the theatre…

    01:05:32
  4. #164 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Chinatown, London, England)

    #164 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. On 19th August 1967, 26-year-old Australian-citizen Edward Wahlstrom-Lewis paid a visit to the Rupert Court Club at 8 Rupert Court in London's Chinatow…

    01:01:03
  5. #163 - The Unloved (Soho & Camden, London, UK)

    On the 14th March 1922, in a small ground-floor lodging at the back of 168 Hampstead Road, a baby girl was born. Conceived in secret by a young couple - 21-year-old Harry Gimber an…

    01:09:43
  6. #162 - 'Madam' (Paddington, London, UK)

    Back in the winter of 1950, The Victory café at 226A Edgware Road in Paddington was managed by 50-year-old Alice Williams; a quiet, nervous but hard-working lady who everyone calle…

    01:07:24
  7. #161 - 'Do Not Disturb' - Part Three (Pall Mall, London, England)

    This is Part Three of Three of 'Do Not Disturb', the untold story of the murder of Sarah Gibson. In the summer of 1972, 24-year-old homeless man David Frooms murdered Sarah Gibson…

    01:05:21
  8. #160 - 'Do Not Disturb' - Part Two (Pall Mall, London, Britain)

    This is Part Two of Three of 'Do Not Disturb', the untold story of the murder of Sarah Gibson. In the summer of 1972, 24-year-old homeless man David Frooms murdered Sarah Gibson,…

    01:07:41
  9. #159 - 'Do Not Disturb' - Part One (Pall Mall, London, UK)

    This is Part One of Three of 'Do Not Disturb', the untold story of the murder of Sarah Gibson. In the summer of 1972, 21-year-old Sarah Gibson worked as assistant housekeeper at t…

    01:00:25
  10. A Festive Thank You from Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast

    This is not a regular Murder Mile episode. As a thank you for supporting the show, here's a little - deliberately silly - Christmas treat which I hope you'll like. If you haven't…

    13:12
  11. #158 - The Blackout Ripper: First Blood - Part Two (Edith Eleanora Humphries, London, England)

    This is Part Two and the final part of The Blackout Ripper: First Blood. In the second week of February 1942, six women were attacked on consequecutive days across London's West E…

    01:05:25
  12. #157 - The Blackout Ripper: First Blood - Part One (Mabel Church, Britain)

    In the second week of February 1942, six women were attacked on consequecutive days across London's West End; two were violently assaulted and four were brutally tortured and murde…

    01:12:45
  13. #156 - The "Old Acquaintance" of Charlotte Flanagan (Mayfair, London, UK)

    Today’s episode is about Charlotte Flanagan, a trainee-nurse and a part-time barmaid who was always there for those who needed her most. But when someone she trusted needed her to…

    01:06:57
  14. #155 - The Sadistic Little Drummer Boy - Part Two (Fulham, London, England)

    Today’s episode is the final part about 19-year-old Michael Douglas Dowdall; a baby-faced killer who had brutally bludgeoned a woman to death, and although this could have been dis…

    01:07:37
  15. #154 - The Sadistic Little Drummer Boy - Part One (Kilburn, London, England)

    Today’s episode is Part One of Two about 19-year-old Michael Douglas Dowdall. Described as a pathetic little mummy’s boy, his early crimes didn’t just set out to prove his bullies…

    01:00:45
  16. #153 - GEC and the Fourth Floor Girls (St Paul's, London, British)

    Today’s episode is about a fire in an old building fitted with modern innovations to ensure its workers safety, and although everyone should have survived, it was the old-fashioned…

    01:15:45
  17. #152 - Blind Obsession (Hammersmith, London, UK)

    Today’s episode is about a family cursed with a history of mental illness and hereditary blindness. It’s a strange relationship where their condition both united and divide them, b…

    01:10:00
  18. #151 - No Way Out for Henry Hall (Soho, London, England)

    Today’s episode is about Henry Hall, a loyal husband to his wife and father to three children, who made an honest living as a boot-maker. So, devoted was Henry, that he would willi…

    01:07:06
  19. #150 - The Day the Music Died - the legend of Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson (Piccadilly, London, Britain)

    Today’s episode is about a music legend called Ken ‘Snake Hips’ Johnson; a bandleader who could have been one of the all-time greats had his brilliance not been snuffed-out before…

    01:07:49
  20. #149 - The Abuse of Jane Andrews - Part Two (Fulham. London, England)

    This is Part Two of Two of The Abuse of Jane Andrews. On Sunday 17th September 2000, after a romantic break in the French Riviera, the couple retired to bed. Their relationship wa…

    01:04:59
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