Murder Mile UK True Crime

This is Mini Mile, a weekly compendium of UK true-crime facts and trivia designed to accompany Murder Mile True-Crime Podcast and to entertain and inform you whilst your host (Michael) is writing and researching the next multi-part series of Murder Mile. In Mini Mile #9 we’ll ask which serial killers and murderers were disabled, what’s the best way to clean-up after a murder, how much do things co...

This is Mini Mile, a weekly compendium of UK true-crime facts and trivia designed to accompany Murder Mile True-Crime Podcast and to entertain and inform you whilst your host (Michael) is writing and researching the next multi-part series of Murder Mile. In Mini Mile #8, we’ll take a peek at murderers who appeared on the telly, we’ll discover what body parts are destroyed when a corpse is incinera...

On Sunday 7th May 2000 at 08:05pm, outside of The Crown public house in Seven Dial (Covent Garden), 53 year old satanic paedophile Edward Alexander Crowley stabbed 12 year old Diego Pineiro-Villar. But what seemed like a random attack by a stranger was anything but.  Date: 7th May 2000 Location: Seven Dials, Covent Garden, Loindon, WC2 Victims: 1 (Diego Pineiro-Villar) Culprit: Edward Alexand...

This is the concluding part of a TWO PART episode. On 2nd May 1924, Patrick Mahon was arrested after Police found a brown Gladstone bag in the left luggage kiosk of Waterloo Station containing a woman's bloodstained clothes and a ten inch cook's knife. But with Emily missing, very little evidence and her body destroyed, although her death looked accidental, the Police now had to prove that this wa...

This is PART ONE of a TWO PART episode which concludes next week. On Monday 7th April 1924, Emily Beilby Kaye; a smart independent lady who felt her last chance of wedding bells and babies had her slipped-by, left her apartment at the Green Cross Club at 68 Guilford Street, WC1, having met an Irish rogue called “Pat”. And although this tawdry affair would lead to her death…it also led to one of th...

On Saturday 18th September 2004, at 3:10am, on the South bank of the River Thames, David Morley met Chelsea O'Mahoney; two very different people raised by very different parents under very different circumstances; one was loving and kind, the other was heartless and cruel, and yet, having met by chance, their lives would be changed forever. Date: Saturday 18th September 2004 Location: Queen's Walk...

On Saturday 18th September 1948, in Room 1 of the Grenville Hotel, Vera Crawford, an unwell woman was found dead in her hotel bed. It seemed as if she had died of natural causes but being required to inform the victim’s next-of-kin, the Police uncovered a murder which was both sinister and tragic. Date:  Saturday 18th September 19 48 Location: The Grenville Hotel, 1 Grenville Street, Bloomsbu...

On Saturday 7th December 1872, Mary Ann Moriarty; a good, decent and hard-working mother of eight children, who struggled to protect her family whilst trapped in an abusive relationship with a violent angry drunk, had her life and pain ended by the blade of an axe. Date: Saturday 7th December 1872 Location: 13 Granby Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2 (demolished) Victims: 1 (Daniel Moriarty) Culpr...

On Saturday 18th June 1982 at 7:30am, the body of Roberto Calvi, the ex-Chairman of Banco Ambrosiano was found hanging under the north-side of Blackfriars Bridge. Having been sacked, with his bank having collapsed owing to a $1.4 billion dollar debt, which he had caused by illegal trade deals, it looked like a regular suicide. But was it? Date:  Saturday 18th June 1982 Location: Blackfriars B...

On Friday 26th December 1947, Elizabeth Wakefield; an elderly widow who was desperate to remarry for fear of being left on the shelf, moved into the first floor flat at 46 Calthorpe Street with an angry drunken maniac called Frederick Cox who had been convicted of the attempted murder of his entire family. But who was worse – the widow or her killer? Date: Friday 26th December 1947 Location: First...

On Friday 8th March 2013, wealthy Mayfair socialite Roberto Troyan; a gregarious, fun and generous man who being gripped with grief and unable to cope placed his life in the hands of someone he felt he could trust - his financial advisor - and yet this greedy little man would bleed Roberto dry. Date: Friday 8th March 2013 Location: Flat 6, 101 Mount Street, Mayfair, London, W1 Victims: 1 (Roberto...

On Thursday 5th April 1934, in Flat 5 of 35 Gosfield Street, 34 year old Juliette Merrill was murdered; it was a crime of passion committed by her boyfriend, investigated by the Police and convicted in a court of law, and although the case is now closed, the details of her life and death are a little sketchy… with one vital clue almost erased forever. Date: Thursday 5th April 1934 Location: Flat 5...

On Monday 26th December 2011, Seydou Diarrassouba was stabbed to death outside of Foot Locker on Oxford Street, he was a promising young man from a good solid family who had a great start in life, and yet, believing that he had to carry a knife, instead of becoming someone great, he became just another statistic.... and another wasted life. Date:  Tuesday 26th December 2011 Location: Foot Loc...

Gordon Johnson; a tragic man of many misfortunes, who was side-lined by life and shafted by fate, and yet crueller still, with no reason and being so unexpected, on Tuesday 5th September 1945, in Mac’s Dance Hall in Soho, the first time he ever met, saw or even knew about his killer was in the seconds before his death. Date: Tuesday 5th September 1945 Location: 41 Great Windmill Street, Soho, Lond...

On Tuesday 20th July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded in Hyde Park. Ben and Freya Pedersen were the last two victims of the Hyde Park bombing, and yet their faces don’t appear in any photos and their names aren’t etched on the memorial plaque, and although they died thirty years after this terrorist attack, their deaths are no less tragic. Date: Tuesday 20th July 1982 Location: Hyde Park, London, W2 Vic...

On 31st October 1917, Emilienne Gerard went missing, two days later her dismembered corpse was found. The Police suspected her killer was Louis Voisin; an experienced butcher who could kill a cow with a single blow, a conniving love-rat who carefully juggled his two secret mistresses and a romantic soul who would do anything for the woman he loved. But was he her killer? Date: Wednesday 31st Octob...

This is a PART TWO of a TWO part special on the murder of Michael Barry Porter; a twenty-three year old scaffolder from King’s Cross, who was brutally murdered in a disreputable West End club, and yet, strangely, almost none of the forty witnesses could identify his killer. This is the investigation. Date: Sunday 26th September 1971 Location: The Rosendale Club, 9 Newport Place, Chinatown, London,...

This is a PART ONE of a TWO part special on the murder of Michael Barry Porter; a twenty-three year old scaffolder from King’s Cross, who was brutally murdered in a disreputable West End club, and yet, strangely, almost none of the forty witnesses could identify his killer. Date: Sunday 26th September 1971 Location: The Rose n Dale Club, 9 Newport Place, Chinatown, London, WC2 (first and second fl...

On Thursday 14th November 1872, the life of Charlie Chirgwin was ended; he was an innocent who wasn’t stabbed, beaten or shot; but his last few hours alive were decided by rules, red-tape and petty revenge, and yet Charlie would never know that, as he was only fourteen weeks old. Date: Monday 14th November 1872 Location: The Strand Union, W1 and St Giles' Workhouse, London, WC2 Victims: 1 (Charles...

On Monday 25th April 1966, Reginald Gordon West was murdered by three young men; he had never met them before, he had never seen them before and they had never spoken before. In fact, they had never met. So why and how did they kill him? Date: Monday 25th April 1966 Location: 23 Lisle Street, WC2 (now Beijing Dumpling) Victims: 1 (Reginald Gordon West) Culprit: Roger Hammond, Robert Alcock and Dav...

On Monday 15th August 1949, a lovely but lonely lady with big dreams and a warm heart - who had struggled against the odds to build her own business from scratch - had finally succeeded. She should have been happy… but (unbeknownst to her) someone wanted her dead. Date: Monday 15th August 1949 Location: 157 High Holborn , Covent Garden, London, WC2 (now demolished) Victims: 1 (Daisy Edith Wallis)...

On Thursday 2nd November 1961, on the first floor of 3 Peter Street, a Soho sex-worker called Jacqueline Birri was bludgeoned to death… by a complete stranger. But why? Date: Thursday 2nd November 1961 Location: 3 Peter Street, Soho, London, W1 (now Supreme) Victims: 1 (Jacqueline Birri) Culprit: David Emery Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mil...

This is Mini Mile, a weekly compendium of UK true-crime facts and trivia designed to accompany Murder Mile True-Crime Podcast and to entertain and inform you whilst your host (Michael) is writing and researching the next multi-part series of Murder Mile which returns in May 2019. In Mini Mile #7 we’ll ask what jobs do most serial killers do, can stomach contents determine a time of death, we do a...

This is Mini Mile, a weekly compendium of UK true-crime facts and trivia designed to accompany Murder Mile True-Crime Podcast and to entertain and inform you whilst your host (Michael) is writing and researching the next series of Murder Mile which returns in May 2019. In Mini Mile #6, this week we’ll ask are most murderers born under a full moon, can you be identified by a single strand of hair,...

This is Mini Mile, a weekly compendium of UK true-crime facts and trivia designed to accompany Murder Mile True-Crime Podcast and to entertain and inform you whilst your host (Michael) is writing and researching the next multi-part series of Murder Mile which returns in May 2019. In Mini Mile #5 we’ll ask how tall or short are serial killers, what occurs during an autopsy, which celebrities have b...