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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.

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  1. #248 - The Creeper (Euston, London, England)

    #248 - The Creeper. On Monday 15th January 1945 at 12:15am, a Dutch seaman called Jan Pureveen was murdered at Fred White’s coffee stall on Euston Road. It was a brutal and unpro…

    01:00:30
  2. #247 - The Dormers Wells Massacre (Southall, UB1, Britain)

    #247 - The Dormers Wells Massacre. On the evening of Wednesday 11th November 1987, two orthodox Sikhs (Rajinder Singh Batth and Mangit Singh Sunder) sat in the sports hall of Dorm…

    57:55
  3. #246 - Jack the Shitter (West London Ripper)

    #246 - Jack the Shitter. Across October 2000, 55-year-old Brian Darby concocted a plan to rape an murder six women across West London over 24 hours, in order to become more infam…

    57:45
  4. #245 - Good Girl, Gone (Bloomsbury, London, WC2)

    #245 - Good Girl, Gone. On 18th of May 1942, 33-year-old part-time prostitute Jean Stafford welcomed a regular client into her room at 3 Bedford Place in Bloomsbury. Being shy and…

    01:10:09
  5. #244 - No Fixed Abode (Fulham, London, UK)

    #244 - No Fixed Abode. On Thursday 25th of October 1934, at the Westminster Institute on Fulham Road, Jim Harvey smashed in the skull of his friend George Hamblin, nine times with…

    01:01:30
  6. #243 - In Black and White (Fitzrovia, London, UK)

    #243 - In Black and White. On Friday 12th December 1969, in the bar of The Duke of York pub in Fitzrovia, a fight kicked off between two groups of men, one black and one white, whi…

    01:00:05
  7. #242 - Meticulous - Part Four (The Disposal, Chiswick, UK)

    This is Part Four of Four of Meticulous. On Thursday 2nd January 1969 at 10:30am, Alec Vanags got off the train to Mitcham carrying a large and unwieldy cardboard box, which weigh…

    01:07:07
  8. #241 - Meticulous - Part Three (The Suspect, Chiswick, UK)

    This is Part Three of Four of Meticulous. On the afternoon of Sunday 29th December 1969, Elenora Essens, a troubled woman who was prone to disappearing without warning having escap…

    57:36
  9. #240 - Meticulous - Part Two (The Woman, Chiswick, UK)

    This is Part Two of Four of Meticulous. December 1968, Bayswater. Three years before the unidentified victim’s shallow graves were unearthed, a woman matching the description enter…

    01:00:18
  10. #239 - Meticulous - Part One (The Body, Chiswick, UK)

    This is Part One of Four of Meticulous. On Wednesday 1st Sep 1971 at 3:40pm, on the 10th hole of Leatherhead golf course, a human forearm and fist was found. As one of many piece…

    01:00:35
  11. Happy New Year and Thank You from Murder Mile

    Just a little Happy New Year and a Thank You from Murder Mile. Mx Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa…

    03:10
  12. #238 - Coldblooded - Part Three (Hammersmith, London, UK)

    This is Part Three of Three of Coldblooded. On Saturday 7th October 1944 at 2:15am, 34-year-old taxi-driver George Edward Heath drove his recently loaned grey V8 Ford Sedan east al…

    01:04:43
  13. #237 - Coldblooded - Part Two (Chiswick, London, UK)

    This is Part Two of Three of Coldblooded. On Saturday 7th October 1944 at 2:15am, 34-year-old taxi-driver George Edward Heath drove his recently loaned grey V8 Ford Sedan east alon…

    01:01:36
  14. #236 - Coldblooded - Part One (Chiswick, London, UK)

    This is Part One of Three of Coldblooded. On Saturday 7th October 1944 at 2:15am, 34-year-old taxi-driver George Edward Heath drove his recently loaned grey V8 Ford Sedan east al…

    59:26
  15. #235 - The Accident, Suicide or Murder of Freddy Moon (Bayswater, London, UK)

    On Wednesday 24th of May 1871, a wealthy bachelor called Frederick Moon came 23 Newton Road in Bayswater, the lavish home of his girlfriend Hannah Newington for dinner. They ate fi…

    01:06:01
  16. #234 - Deadly Soap (Fitzrovia, London, England)

    #234 - Deadly Soap. On Monday 18th of August 1952 at roughly 2pm, a scream came from Flat 8 on the third floor of 21 Hanson Street in Fitrovia, W1. The neighbours found the body of…

    01:09:10
  17. #233 - Sketches (Marylebone, London, Britain)

    #233 - Sketches. At 5:15am, on the Boxing Day morning of 1948, cartoonist Harry Michaelson was found on his doorstep of Flat 75 at Fursecroft in Marylebone, nursing a bloody wound…

    01:08:33
  18. #232 - Finally, a home (Soho, London, England)

    #232 - Finally, a home. On Friday 23rd April 1960, 23-year-old Elaine Baker finished her shift as a striptease artiste at the Peeperama on 47 Frith Street in Soho. It was an odd jo…

    01:02:31
  19. #231 - The Good Samaritans (Soho, London, UK)

    #231 - The Good Samaritans. On Sunday 31st of July 1904, at roughly 12:30am, a fight broke out near the doorway of 23 Greek Street in Soho between two young men; Edward Devanney an…

    01:04:39
  20. #230 - Pieces (Waterloo, London, England)

    #230 - Pieces. On Monday the 25th of February 1935 at 2:30pm, an unusual parcel arrived at Platform 19 of Waterloo Station. At 21 inches long, 9 inches wide and deep and weighing c…

    01:00:38
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