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Nominated for the BEST TRUE CRIME PODCAST award at the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is a unique UK true-crime podcast, presented as a guided walk of 300+ of London and the West End’s untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murder cases Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#213 - "Finished with Life" (The Suicide of Father Louis Caceres)
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On 15th September 1894, being part way through a world tour to spread the word of God, Father Louis Caceres, a portly elderly priest had booked a room for himself and his faithful assistant Eugene at Blondel's Hotel on Old Compton Street in Soho. But growing depressed at his failing health as the tour took its toll, here the priest would take his o…
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#212 - The Old Lady Killer - Part Two
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This is Part Two of Two of The Old Lady Killer. On Friday 7th of September 1973, just seven weeks after and one and a half miles east of the attack on Alice Parker, in Flat 6 of Newbury House, 74-year-old Lillian Lindemann known as Lily was awaiting the arrival of her loved one’s. Being a stiflingly hot day she left the front-door to her first-floo…
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#211 - The Old Lady Killer - Part One
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This is Part One of Two of The Old Lady Killer. On Monday 11th June 1973 at roughly noon, as part of her routine, she was standing on the first floor walkway awaiting a visit from a librarian. Form out of nowhere, she was dragged into her own home and viciously beaten by a man with no compunction about terrorising the most frail and vulnerable. The…
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On the Christmas Eve of 1968, former Leeds footballer Dominic Kelly sought revenge on the hotel manager who had sacked him for his bad behaviour. Only being too fuelled by drink, anger and arrogance, he would inflict a truly horrifying death on a woman who was entirely innocent. Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder …
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#209 - Rags and Bones - Part Two
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This is Part Two of Two of Rags & Bones. On Thursday 13th March 1969, the body of a 52-year-old prostitute was found inside a derelict house on Kensal Road, W10. Her missing clothes lead to a very likely suspect, who claimed her death was an accident. But was this the truth, a lie or an alibi? Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Mic…
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This is Part One of Two of Rags & Bones. On the morning of Tuesday 11th March 1969, a 52-year-old prostitute known as ‘Scotch Maggie’ went missing from her home at 3 Oxford Gardens near Notting Hill. Two days later, her semi-clad body was found inside a suitcase in an abandoned house. But who had killer her and why? Murder Mile is researched, writt…
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On Wednesday 21st December 1853, 27 year old Hannah Heisse, a married mother-of-one gave birth to a baby daughter, later to be joined by her husband, a 34 year old tin plate worker called Bertolt Heisse. For three days, being cared for by Bertolt and her mother, Hannah rested as this prolonged birth had left her weak. It should have been the start …
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Omnibus Edition - The Soho Strangler - Parts Eight to Ten
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This is the Omnibus Edition of The Soho Strangler - Parts Five to Seven, without Extra Mile. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Omnibus Edition - The Soho Strangler - Parts Five to Seven
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This is the Omnibus Edition of The Soho Strangler - Parts Five to Seven, without Extra Mile. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Omnibus Edition - The Soho Strangler - Parts One to Four
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This is the Omnibus Edition of The Soho Strangler - Parts One to Four, without Extra Mile. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's statements can be twisted by the press, as well as the timings of Norman Stephenson. This…
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As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's statements can be twisted by the press, as well as the timings of Norman Stephenson. This…
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Strangler Week - 'Other Prostitute Murders'
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As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's statements can be twisted by the press, as well as the timings of Norman Stephenson. This…
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As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's statements can be twisted by the press, as well as the timings of Norman Stephenson. This…
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As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's statements can be twisted by the press, as well as the timings of Norman Stephenson. This…
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As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's statements can be twisted by the press, as well as the timings of Norman Stephenson. This…
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Strangler Week - 'Demonising the Victims'
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As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's statements can be twisted by the press, as well as the timings of Norman Stephenson. This…
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#206 - The Soho Strangler - Part Ten 'Norman Stephenson the Serial Strangler'
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This is Part Ten of Ten of The Soho Strangler. At the crime-scene of ‘French Marie’s murder, the culprit had left his fingerprints. At the pub and a nearby market, he was seen with the victim, just hours before ethe murder, by at least twenty eye-witnesses, some of whom he had spoken to, even giving them details about his life. As the case stalled,…
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#205 - The Soho Strangler - Part Nine 'The Strangling of French Marie'
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This is Part Nine of Ten of The Soho Strangler. On Monday 16th August 1937, in the second floor lodging of a 48-year-old casual prostitute known as ‘French Marie’, a fourth French prostitute would strangled to death by an unknown assailant, and in a way which was as identical as the others. But unlike the others, her murderer would murder her was s…
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#204 - The Soho Strangler - Part Eight 'Roger the Strangler's Slayer'
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This is Part Eight of Ten of The Soho Strangler. On Thursday 23rd January 1936 at 6:50pm, Red Max entered 35/36 Little Newport Street, the lodging of a petite French brunette known as ‘French Suzette’, who was the mistress of his rival, Roger Vernon. Within half an hour, there would be another killing in Soho. But was this the work of The Soho Stra…
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#203 - The Soho Strangler - Part Seven 'Red Max the Strangler'
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This is Part Seven of Ten of The Soho Strangler. With three women dead, no witnesses to their murders and no clues to their killer’s identity, although the Police still insisted that this was not the work of a serial-killer but three different murders with remarkable similarities, the press had a suspect… a ‘Soho crime boss’ who was a known strangl…
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#202 - The Soho Strangler - Part Six 'Dutch Leah: The Making of a Monster'
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This is Part Six of Ten of The Soho Strangler. By May 1936, three women had been strangled, by an unknown assailant, in their own homes in Soho. With the Police investigation drawing to a familiar terrifying conclusion, that – with no witnesses or suspects – once again, the murder of a Soho prostitute will go unsolved. With no suspect to pin the mu…
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#201 - The Soho Strangler - Part Five 'Dutch Leah: A Forgotten Woman'
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This is Part Five of Ten of The Soho Strangler. May 1936. Three weeks after and two street south of the murder of Marie Cotton, and just two streets east of French Fifi, ‘Dutch Leah’ a third sex-worker would be found strangled in her Soho flat, on the second floor of 66 Old Compton Street. Again, there were no obvious signs of break-in, robbery or …
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#200 - The Soho Strangler - Part Four 'The Mysterious Death by a Lodger'
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This is Part Four of Ten of The Soho Strangler. By the morning of Friday 17th April 1936, word had spread around Soho that 43-year-old Jeanne-Marie Cotton had been murdered; strangled in her own flat, using her own scarf, with no suspects or motive. It seemed like a random unprovoked attack on a defenceless woman for no reason. It was a case which …
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#199 - The Soho Strangler - Part Three 'The Mysterious Death of a Landlady'
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This is Part Three of Ten of The Soho Strangler. Five months later, the murder of Soho prostitute ‘French Fifi’ was forgotten. On Thursday 16th April 1936, the body of 43-year-old French national Jeanne-Marie Cotton was found dead in her flat. Initially mistaken for an accident or natural causes, a more in-depth-investigation would prove it to be m…
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