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Murder Mile UK True Crime
Episodes — page 19
#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…
#93 - The Landor House Murders (Westbourne Park, London, W2)Today’s episode began as a violent sexual assault on a young woman, a humiliating and traumatic rape which changed her life forever, but this isn’t the victim’s story and neither i…
#92 - Elizabeth McLindon and the Wrong 'Mr Right' (Belgravia, London, SW1)Today’s episode is about Elizabeth McLindon, a lonely lady looking for love who had finally found her future husband in a man named Arthur Boyce, and although this sweet and attent…
#91 - The Sad Faced Killer (Paddington, London, W2)Today’s episode isn’t about the victim, it’s about her murderer. His identity isn’t a mystery; we know his name, his age and (based on witness descriptions) he would later become k…
#90 - The Wormwood Scrubs Police Massacre (East Acton / Shepherds Bush, London, W12)Today’s episode began as an ordinary morning for three police officers going about their regular duties. And what started as a simple stop-and-search on a West London street for (w…
#89 - The Last Gasp of Peter Buckingham (Harlesden, London, NW10)Today’s episode is about the tragic death of eight-year-old Peter Buckingham; a lovely little boy who wasn’t starved, abused or mistreated, if anything he was adored, and yet, seve…
#88 - The Three (Possible) Murders of Vincent Patrick Keighery (Bayswater, London, W2)Today’s episode is about the three possible murders of Vincent Patrick Keighery, a delightful elegant bachelor brutally tortured in his Bayswater flat. But whose story was true and…
#87 - The First Date Killer (Richmond, London, TW10)Today’s episode is about the murder of Kate Beagley; a smart independent woman who had agreed to go out for a drink with a handsome young man; she did everything right, she took ev…
#86 - The Lover's Death Pact (Queensway, London, W2)Today’s episode is a romantic wartime tale about Barbara Shuttleworth and Felic Sterbe, who amidst the ruins of a bombed-out London found comfort in each other’s arms, and yet, som…
#85 - The Beast - Part Three (Andrzej Kunowski, Acton, W3)This is part three of three about the shocking murder of Katerina Koneva; by pure luck her killer had been caught, and what seemed like a one-off attack led to “one of the most pro…
#84 - The Beast - Part Two (Trajce Koneva, Shepherd's Bush, W12)This is part two of three about the shocking murder of Katerina Koneva; an innocent little girl who was brutally raped and strangled to death in her own bedroom by an unknown assai…
#83 - The Beast - Part One (Katerina Koneva, Shepherd's Bush, W12)This is part one of three about the shocking murder of Katerina Koneva; an innocent little girl whose doting parents had done everything to protect her, she had a nice home, a lovi…
