Podcast
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Episodes — page 23
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
