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Murder Mile UK True Crime
Episodes — page 24
#21 - Canal Killers - Sebastiano Magnanini (King's Cross, Islington, N1)On the evening of Tuesday 22nd September 2015, Italian tour-guide and English teacher Sebastiano Magnanini was last seen alive walking by King’s Cross Station. Two days later, his…
#20 - The Bungled Assassinations of Alexander Litvinenko (Mayfair, London, W1))On 1st November 2006, Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was assassinated in the heart of London’s West End, by two of Russia’s top assassins, using one of the most bizarre and…
#19 - Norah Upchurch and her Lonely Death in the Empty Shop Part 2 (Bloomsbury, London, W1)On Tuesday 25th July 1933, 27 year old Frederick Field fully confessed to the murder of West End prostitute Norah Upchurch who was found strangled inside a locked empty shop in Sha…
#18 - Norah Upchurch and her Lonely Death in the Empty Shop - Part 1 (Bloomsbury, London, W1)On Friday 2nd October 1931, West End prostitute Norah Upchurch was found strangled inside a locked empty shop in Shaftesbury Avenue; with no sign of a break-in, no-one knows how sh…
#17 - David Martin and the Baffling Case of the Transgender Houdini (Marylebone, London, W2)On Christmas Eve 1982, 36 year old David Ralph Martin was charged at the Marlborough Street Magistrates Court on twelve counts including armed robbery, theft, fraud and attempted m…
#16 - Richard Rhodes Henley - the Seaman, the Semen and the murder of the Porn Peddler (Soho, London, W1)On Saturday 27th October 1956, 26 year old Canadian sailor Richard Rhodes Henley committed armed robbery for the first and very last time, but he didn’t steal money, or booze, or d…
#15 - The Almost Double Deaths of the Disgruntled Dish Washer (Soho, London, W1)On Friday 12th May 1933, 31 year old disgruntled dish-washer Varnavros Antorka murdered his overbearing boss, head-chef Boleslaw Pankorski at Bellometti’s restaurant in Soho Square…
#14 - William Stoltzer and the stabbing of Peter Keim (Soho, London, W1)On Saturday 30th September 1843, 28 year old William Stoltzer stabbed Peter Keim once in the stomach with a boot-maker’s knife, and even though he confessed to the murder; the life…
#13 - Margaret Cook and the Long Confession (Soho, London, W1)On 10th November 1946, a 26 year old club singer and prostitute Margaret Cook was brutally gunned down outside the Soho nightclub known as the Blue Lagoon, and although the murder…
#12 - Dennis Nilsen and the Sleeping Bag of Death Part Two (Serial Killer, Soho, W1)The CONCLUDING PART of Dennis Nilsen and the Sleeping Bag of Death. On 23rd November 1981, 19 year old student Paul Nobbs met a man in The Golden Lion public house on Dean Street;…
#11 - Dennis Nilsen and the Sleeping Bag of Death Part One (Serial Killer, Soho, W1)On 23rd November 1981, 19 year old student Paul Nobbs met a man in The Golden Lion public house on Dean Street; here they drank, laughed and headed back to his place for more drink…
#10 - Alfredo Zomparelli and the Golden Goose (Soho, London, W1)On 4th September 1974, Soho gangster Alfredo Zomparelli was shot to death as he played on a pinball machine in the Golden Goose amusement arcade on Old Compton Street, by two hitme…
#9 - Who Killed Ginger Rae? (Soho, London, W1)Who killed “Ginger Rae”? A warm, kind and sweet-natured Soho prostitute who didn’t seem to have any drug issues, debts or enemies? Was her death part of a turf-war between two riva…
#8 - The Brutal Death of Ginger Rae (Soho, London, W1)On Saturday 25th September 1948, Rachel Annie Fennick (alias Ginger Rae), a veteran Soho sex-worker with a sweet smile and a kind heart was brutally murdered. And yet, her bloody d…
#7 - The Identikit Killing at the Curiosity Shop (Charing Cross, London, W1)On Friday 3rd March 1961, at 23 Cecil Court (London), 21 year old Edwin Bush would brutally murder 59 year old part-time shop assistant Elsie May Batten whilst attempting to steal…
#6 - The Deadliest Dentist in Soho (Soho, London, W1)On Saturday 18th January 1908, 41 year old Jane Farvish entered her local dentist’s for the first and last time, and yet, although she had a simple problem to solve, her agonising…
#5 - The Bombing of the Admiral Duncan (Soho, London, W1)On Friday 30th April 1999, a deeply-deluded neo-Nazi exploded the third in a series of nail-bombs across London at the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho. In total, he killed three people…
#4 - The Mysterious Death of Dutch Leah (Soho, London, W1)On Saturday 9th May 1936, on 66 Old Compton Street, Soho prostitute “Dutch Leah” was brutally strangled and beaten to death in her flat, a crime which, over 80 years on, remains un…
#3 - The Bedfordbury Baby-Batterer (Covent Garden, London, WC2)On Saturday 5th September 1901, two year old Thomas James Mills was brutally beaten to death by his death by his depressed, unemployed and alcoholic father, but what initially seem…
#2 - Double Murder at the Bus Stop Club (Soho, London, W1)On Monday 28th January 1963, the bodies of a Soho gangster (Tony Mella) and his bodyguard (Alfred Melvin) were discovered by the Police, they had been shot to death on Dean Street,…
