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Murder Mile UK True Crime
Episodes — page 18
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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,…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#102 - The Five Alibis of James Forbes McCallum (Covent Garden, London, WC2)On Friday 20th December 1940, James Forbes McCallum robbed the Coach & Horses public house in Covent Garden; he was a desperate man whose first and only robbery was ill-judged, unp…
#101 - The Fatal Seizure of John Esmond Murphy (Soho, London, W1)On Saturday 7th November 1908, at 11:40am, John Esmond Murphy walked into the bank of Cartmell & Schlittle at 84 Shaftesbury Avenue. Overwhelming evidence pointed to the fact that…
#100 - The Martyr and the Massacre (Westminster, Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer & Udham Singh)On Wednesday 13th March 1940 at 4:30pm, in the Tudor Room of Caxton Hall, Udham Singh would murder Sir Michael O'Dwyer, a man he had never met before, but fuelled by hatred over tw…
#99 - The Accidental Death of Amelia Pottle (Soho, London, W1)On Sunday 29th May 1887, in the first-floor flat of 29 Great Windmill Street in Soho, twenty-year-old Amelie Pottle had a "little accident" with an oil-lamp which would lead to her…
#98 - The Petty Grudge of Victor Castigador (Chinatown, London, W1)At just before midnight on Sunday 2nd April 1989, Victor Castigador and his small gang of cohorts robbed the Leisure Investments amusement arcade at 23 Gerrard Street in Chinatown,…
#97 - 'Christine Granville' - The Fall of a Forgotten Hero (Krystyna Skarbek, Spy)On the evening of Sunday 15th June 1952, just inside the front-door of the Shelbourne Hotel at 1 Lexham Gardens, a 44-year-old lady known as 'Christine Granville' was murdered. She…
#96 - Zakaria Bulhan - The Terrorist Who Never WasOn the evening of Wednesday 3rd August 2016, a young Muslim man ran amok in Russell Square, he was armed with a knife and had killed one person and injured five, but as the press j…
#95 - Elsie Goldsmith and the Parasite Inside (Mayfair, London, W1)On the 21st November 1927, in the backroom of a well-respected abortionist at 55 Upper Brook Street in Mayfair, recently-pregnant Elsie Goldsmith went in to have her little problem…
#94 - The Terror of Maltese London (Soho, London, W1)On Tuesday 15th June 1948, in the 'The Maltese Club' situated in the basement of 3 Carlisle Street, one of Soho’s deadliest and most feared gangsters known as 'The Terror of Maltes…
