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Murder Mile UK True Crime

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EIGHT 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 18

  1. #120 - The Yellow Ribbons of Hanwell - Part One (Hanwell, Alice Gross)

    On Thursday 28th August 2014, 14-year-old Alice Gross went for a nice long walk down the Hanwell Flight of the Grand Union Canal. It was a sunny day, on a relatively busy towpath,…

    01:07:47
  2. A Christmas Thank You from Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast

    This is a special Christmas thank you from myself (Michael) to all the Murder Mile listeners to wish you a very Merry Christmas, a happy holiday and a joyous New Year, featuring so…

    56:59
  3. The Four Faces of The Camden Ripper - Omnibus Edition (Anthony Hardy)

    This is the omnibus edition of The Four Faces of The Camden Ripper, that's all four episodes together with the waffle (Extra Mile) taken out, as many listeners asked for it with th…

    02:06:35
  4. #119 - The Four Faces of The Camden Ripper - Part Four (Tony the Maniac)

    This is Part Four of a four-part series into The Camden Ripper. The truth about may never be known, as it’s hard to understand who he is, as he appeared to be a different person to…

    01:14:20
  5. #118 - The Four Faces of The Camden Ripper - Part Three (Tony the Sadist)

    This is Part Three of a four-part series into The Camden Ripper. The truth about may never be known, as it’s hard to understand who he is, as he appeared to be a different person t…

    01:00:24
  6. #117 - The Four Faces of The Camden Ripper - Part Two (Tony The Addict)

    This is Part Two of a four-part series into The Camden Ripper. The truth about may never be known, as it’s hard to understand who he is, as he appeared to be a different person to…

    01:00:09
  7. #116 - The Four Faces of The Camden Ripper - Part One (Tony The Alcoholic)

    This is Part One of a four-part series into The Camden Ripper. The truth about may never be known, as it’s hard to understand who he is, as he appeared to be a different person to…

    01:07:38
  8. #115 - The Lethal Evidence of Sir Bernard Spilsbury (Bloomsbury, London)

    Sir Bernard Spilsbury was an acclaimed pathologist and the father of forensic science whose most celebrated case made his name and changed the face of murder investigations forever…

    01:13:57
  9. #114 - The Incompetence of John Carragher (Covent Garden, London)

    On Friday 29th March 1968 at roughly 4:20pm, 56-year-old wages clerk Frederick Monk was bludgeoned to death by an unknown assailant inside of a locked office. The attack was brutal…

    01:04:17
  10. #113 - The Last 37 Seconds of Desmond O'Beirne (Trafalgar Square, London)

    On Saturday 3rd June 2017 at 12:24am, in London's bustling Trafalgar Square, as 50-year-old Desmond O’Beirne was heading home after a night out in the West End, he made a very inno…

    01:10:14
  11. #112 – Savvas Demetriades and the Code of Silence (Soho, London)

    On Monday 25th October 1943, at roughly 3:30pm, a businessman called Savvas Demetriades was murdered in broad daylight on a public pavement outside of the Helvetia pub at 23 Old Co…

    01:01:25
  12. #111 - The Scattered Remains of Hannah Brown Maida Vale, London)

    On Wednesday 28th December 1836 at roughly 2pm, off Pineapple Place in Maida Vale, the dismembered torso of an unidentified lady was discovered hidden behind a paving stone. With n…

    01:10:03
  13. #110 - A Memorial to The Fallen (Hyde Park, London, W2)

    On Friday 5th July 1940 at 13:45pm, War Reservist Constable Jack William Avery left his post at the 'Old Police House' in Hyde Park having been alerted to a man "acting suspisiousl…

    01:09:36
  14. #109 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part Three (The Suspect, Alfred Charles Whiteway)

    This is Part Three of Three of the Thames Towpath Murders. Across May & June 1953, a violent serial rapist who would attack lone women in isolated spots in and around Teddington,…

    01:13:51
  15. #108 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part Two (The Investigation, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed)

    This is Part Two of Three of The Thames Towpath Murders. On the morning of Monday 1st June 1953, at 09:05am, the body of Barbara Songhurst was pulled out of the River Thames at Ra…

    01:07:07
  16. #107 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part One (The Girls, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed)

    This is Part One of Three of the Thames Towpath Murders. On the night of Sunday 31st May 1953, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Reed, two innocent and inseparable best-friends were…

    01:01:25
  17. #106 - The Last Love of the Chiswick Cat Ladies (Chiswick, London, W4)

    On the morning of Friday 27th August 1971, in the basement flat at 15 Linden Gardens in Chiswick, W4; with her family life in tatters, her emotions frought and everything she had e…

    01:05:20
  18. #105 - Meux and the Man-Made Tidal Wave (aka the London Beer Flood)

    On Monday 17th October 1814, at 5:30pm, an iron hoop on a vat of Porter beer at the Horseshoe Brewery would slip, it didn't seem like an emergency, but it would unleash a deadly ti…

    01:13:09
  19. #104 - The 'Elementary' Murder of William Raven (Marylebone, London, W2)

    On Thursday 15th October 1942, in flat 34 of Chalfont Court at 236 Baker Street, the body of William Raven was discovered. He was an elegant sociable divorcee and co-owner of a gen…

    01:20:57
  20. #103 - The Beating of Baby Richard (Soho child killer)

    On Tuesday 4th October 1853, in a squalid first-floor lodging at 6 Little Dean Street, the beating of baby Richard began… and ten days later, he would be dead. Described as a ‘bast…

    01:14:01
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