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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.

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  1. #39 - George Thomas Picking: The Silent Killer (Soho, London, W1

    George Thomas Pickering – The Silent Killer: on Monday 8th October 1963, in the first floor flat of 12 Brewer Street in Soho, W1, a hard-working husband and doting father-of three,…

    01:10:05
  2. #38 - Justice for Martine Vik Magnussen (Fitzrovia, London, W1)

    Justice for Martine Vik Magnussen: On the morning of Sunday 16th March 2008, the body of 23 year old Martine Vik Magnussen was found raped and strangled in the basement of 222 Grea…

    01:14:56
  3. #37 - The Wasted Life of Larry Winters (Soho, London, W1)

    On Sunday 14th June 1964, in the bar-room of The White Horse public house on Rupert Street in Soho, 21 year old Larry Winters shot 44 year old barman Paddy O'Keefe to death, having…

    01:25:15
  4. #36 - Love, Loss and the Lingering Death of Helen Mary Pickwoad (Oxford Street, London, W1)

    Love, Loss and the Lingering Death of Helen Mary Pickwoad: 27 year old Helen Mary Pickwoad thought she’d fallen in love with the man of her dreams, an Army Captain called Edward Ti…

    01:15:34
  5. #35 - The Several Assassinations of the Exiled Iraqi: Abd ar-Razzaq Said al-Naif (Marylebone, London, W1)

    The Several Assassinations of the Exiled Iraqi: Abd ar-Razzaq Said al-Naif; an exiled Iraqi national, living in the West End, found himself the target of several assassinations. An…

    01:19:09
  6. #34 - Brian Alexander Robinson and the D'Arblay Street Death (Soho, London, W1)

    Brian Alexander Robinson and the D’Arblay Street Death: On Friday 29th August 1964, Brian Alexander Robinson, a 19 year old part-time DJ who murdered a man he had never met before,…

    01:19:05
  7. #33 - Jacques Adrian Tratsart - The Corner House Killer (Oxford Street, Soho, London, W1)

    Jacques Adrian Tratsart - The Corner House Killer: On Friday 20th April 1945, at the Lyon’s Corner House tearoom on Oxford Street, 27 year old Jacques Tratsart attempted to murder…

    01:33:57
  8. The Blackout Ripper - The Full Story Parts 5 to 8

    The Blackout Ripper - The Full Story Parts 5 to 8. As promised, this is the full story of The Blackout Ripper with all of the rubbish taken out; no admin, no extra mile, no credits…

    02:41:01
  9. The Blackout Ripper - The Full Story Parts 1 to 4

    The Blackout Ripper - The Full Story Parts 1 to 4. As promised, this is the full story of The Blackout Ripper with all of the rubbish taken out; no admin, no extra mile, no credits…

    02:37:44
  10. #32 - The Blackout Ripper Part 8 (The Life of Gordon Frederick Cummins)

    The Blackout Ripper Part 8 (of 8): Who was Gordon Frederick Cummins? What incidents in his childhood made him kill? And why would he go on to murder four women in four days in Lond…

    01:02:13
  11. #31 - The Blackout Ripper Part 7 (The Trial)

    The Blackout Ripper Part 7 of 8: On Friday 13th February 1942, Gordon Frederick Cummins was arrested for assault, and as the evidence mounted, it became clear that to the Police th…

    01:11:06
  12. #30 - The Blackout Ripper Part 6 (The Arrest)

    The Blackout Ripper Part 6: On the morning of Friday 13th February 1942, The Blackout Ripper was caught and arrested, but not for the brutal murder of four women in London’s West E…

    01:00:08
  13. #29 - The Blackout Ripper Part 5 (Greta Hayward and Kathryn Mulcahy)

    The Blackout Ripper Part 5: Before the brutal murder of 34 year old Doris Jouanett on Thursday 12th February 1942 at roughly 11pm, The Blackout Ripper had attacked two more women i…

    51:45
  14. #28 - The Blackout Ripper Part 4 (Doris Jouanett)

    The Blackout Ripper Part 4: On 12th February 1942, 32 year old Doris Jouanett was found strangled, posed and mutilated in her flat at 187 Sussex Gardens in a murder strangely simil…

    59:14
  15. #27 - The Blackout Ripper Part 3 (Margaret Florence Lowe)

    The Blackout Ripper Part 3: The Blackout Ripper Part 3: In the early hours of Wednesday 11th February 1942, 43 year old Margaret Florence Lowe was found strangled and posed in her…

    01:02:19
  16. #26 - The Blackout Ripper Part 2 (Evelyn Oatley)

    The Blackout Ripper Part 2: On 10th February 1942, 34 year old Evelyn Oatley was found strangled, posed and mutilated in her flat at 153 Wardour Street in a murder strangely simila…

    01:00:24
  17. #25 - The Blackout Ripper Part 1 (Evelyn Hamilton)

    The Blackout Ripper Part 1: On 9th February 1942, 41 year old Evelyn Margaret Hamilton was found strangled and posed in an air-raid shelter in Montagu Place (Marylebone). Police ha…

    48:32
  18. #24 - Canal Killers John Sweeney - Part 2 (Melissa Halstead, Kings Cross, N1)

    PART 2 OF 2: On 19th February 2001, ten dismembered body-parts of an unidentified woman were found submerged in the Regent's Canal, in a sickening attacked which matched that of a…

    52:37
  19. #23 - Canal Killers - John Sweeney Part 1 (Paula Fields, King's Cross, N1)

    PART 1 OF 2: On 19th February 2001, at Battlebridge Basin, ten dismembered body-parts, belonging to an unidentified woman, wrapped in six separate bags, were found submerged in the…

    45:56
  20. #22 - Canal Killers - Tomasz Kocik (Marta Ligman, Harlesden, NW10)

    On the afternoon of Sunday 10th May 2015, a suitcase was found floating in the Grand Union Canal in Little Venice containing the folded-up corpse of 23 year old Marta Ligman. But h…

    40:48
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