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 which returns in May 2019. In Mini Mile #4 we’ll ask what are the favourite nibbles of serial killers, what happens during decomposition, is there...

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 #3, we’ll ask what music do deranged killers listen to, what happens during rigor mortis, are you a necrop...

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 #2 we’ll ask which infamous murderers loved their pets, we’ll investigate fingerprint powder, we’ll redefi...

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 #1 we’ll ask what are the favourite drinks of murderers, what is luminal, how many different types of kill...

For your enjoyment, this is the omnibus edition of The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place - Parts Six to Ten with all the waffle and Extra Mile taken out. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For your enjoyment, this is the omnibus edition of The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place - Parts 1 to 5, with all of the waffle and Extra Mile taken out Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the final part of The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place. On Friday 20th March 1953, Reg Christie left 10 Rillington Place forever and entered Rowton House at 1 Calthorpe Street, a lodging house for homeless men, but being a wanted serial-killer, what was his big plan to escape? Date: Friday 20th March 1953 Location: Rowton House, King's Cross, London, N1 (now demolished) Victims: 9 (assort...

On Friday 6th March 1953, 27 year old mother-of-two Hectorina MacLennan went missing from Ladbroke Grove having spent the last three nights staying at a new friend’s house with her boyfriend, Alex. Little did anyone know, that she was the ninth and final victim of British serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie. Date: Friday 6th March 1953 Location: Gaumont Palace (now The Hammersmith Apollo...

On an unspecified date in January 1953, 25 year old Rita Elizabeth Nelson disappeared from the streets of West London, she was six months pregnant and was due to return home to Belfast to have the baby. She was the sixth victim of British serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie. Date: January 1953 Location: 10 Rillington Place, Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 Victims: 1 (Rita Elizabeth Nelson) C...

On an unspecified date in January 1953, 26 year old Kathleen Madeleine Maloney, an orphan, alcoholic and full-times prostitute went missing from the Paddington area. She was never reported missing. And yet she would be the seventh victim of British serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie. Date: January / February 1953 Location: 10 Rillington Place, Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 Victims: 1 (Kat...

On Sunday 14th December 1952, Ethel Christie died of an accidental overdose of sleeping tablets in bed, her husband tried to save her, but it was too late. And yet, was this the truth... given that her husband was John Reginald Halliday Christie and he had already murdered four people and sent an innocent man to his death? Date: Sunday 14th December 1952 Location: 10 Rillington Place, Ladbrok...

On 10th November 1949, 14 month old Geraldine Evans was murdered, her body wouldn’t be discovered until almost three weeks later, and although he claimed to know nothing about it, her father – Timothy Evans – would confess to her murder… but what was the real truth? This is part five of the full, true and untold story of The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place. Date: Thursday 10th November 1949 Loca...

On 30th November 1949, 24 year old Timothy John Evans walked into Merthyr Vale Police Station and confessed to disposing of the body of his wife Beryl Evans, following a failed abortion attempt at 10 Rillington Place… but what was the real truth? This is part four of the full, true and untold story of The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place. Date: Wednesday 30th November 1949 Location: The Kensingto...

On 8th November 1949, 20 year old Beryl Susanna Evans, a married mother-of-one who lived in the second floor flat at 10 Rillington Place, died following a suspected suicide attempt after a series of failed abortions, and yet, her husband Timothy Evans would be arrested for her murder. But was this a suicide, a murder, or was she the third victim of the infamous British serial killer John Reginald...

On Saturday 7th October 1944, 32 year old East London orphan Muriel Eady vanished from Ladbroke Grove in West London, one year after 21 year old Ruth Fuerst, but with this being war-time, it was believed that she was just one of thousands of unidentified bodies and body-parts littered across the city’s bomb-craters, but she was the second confirmed victim of the infamous British serial killer John...

On Tuesday 24th August 1943, 21 year old Austrian refugee Ruth Fuerst vanished from Ladbroke Grove in West London. Having been missing for almost a decade, it was believed that she was just one of thousands of unidentified bodies and body-parts littered across the city’s bomb-craters, but – in truth – Ruth Fuerst was the first confirmed victim of the infamous British serial killer John Reginald Ha...

This is part two of a two-part episode. On Sunday 25th July 1965, in Goslett Yard in Soho; world champion light-heavyweight boxer, film star and club-owner Freddie Mills was found dead, shot in the head. But was it a suicide, or murder? Date: Sunday 25th July 1965 Location: Goslett Yard, Soho, London, W1 Victims: 1 (Freddie Mills) Culprit: Unknown Nominated one of the BEST BRITISH TRUE CRIME PODCA...

On Sunday 25th July 1965, in Goslett Yard in Soho; world champion light-heavyweight boxer, film star and club-owner Freddie Mills was found dead, shot in the head. But was it a suicide, or murder? This is part one of a two-part episode. Date: Sunday 25th July 1965 Location: Goslett Yard, Soho, London, W1 Victims: 1 (Freddie Mills) Culprit: Unknown Nominated one of the BEST BRITISH TRUE CRIME PODCA...

On Monday 1st March 2004, Camille Gordon; a bubbly student with a beaming smile, a big heart and a bright future, who had no enemies, only friends, and yet, she was stabbed to death outside of The Blue Bunny Club in Soho. But why? Date: Monday 1st March 2004 Location: The Blue Bunny Club, 7 Archer Street, Soho, London, W1 Victims: 1 (Camille Gordon) Culprit: Unknown Nominated one of the BEST BRITI...

Between Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd, Sunday 24th and Monday 25th March 1850, at 25 Brydges Street, a baker’s wife called Susan Moir was literally beaten to death. And although this story is almost 170 years old, it remains just as relevant today Date: Friday 22nd to Monday 25th March 1850 Location: Moir's Bakery, 25 Brydges Street , Covent Garden, London, WC2 (no demolished) Victims: 1 (Susan Moir)...

On 30th December 1942, in 112 Bryanston Court, Marion Lees-Smith was a single mother who was struggling alone to cope with the daily demands of Derek - her deaf and brain-damaged son. And as frustrated and exasperated as Marion would often be, her death would come about, not by exhaustion, but by the hand of her own son. Date: Friday 30th December 1942 Location: Flat 112, Bryanston Court, Marylebo...

On the afternoon of Friday 12th December 2014, in Ormond Yard, a quiet back-street at the back of a garish restaurant called Abracadabra, larger-than-life businessman David West Senior was brutally stabbed to death by his diligent business partner and beloved son – David West Junior. But why? Date: Friday 12th December 2014 Location: 8 Ormond Yard, Piccadilly, London, SW1 Victims: 1 (David West Sn...

On Friday 19th September 1947, two robbers - Christopher James Geraghty and Charles Henry Jenkins - were executed having killed an innocent bystander whilst in pursuit of a robbery, as no-one could prove which man had committed the murder. It's a trial which brought about the abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom. But who was the real victim? Date: Friday 29th April 1943 Location: 7...

On Tuesday 26th January 1943, somewhere at the back of King’s Cross station, in an unknown derelict warehouse, Glyndwr Michael; a nobody, a nothing, a homeless man became a hero, and although he saved my life, your life and all of our lives, 80 years on, his name his hardly known. Date: Tuesday 26th January 1943 Location: King's Cross, London, N1 (exact location unknown) Victims: 1 (Glyndwr Michae...

George Thomas Pickering – The Silent Killer: on Monday 8th October 1963, in the first floor flat of 12 Brewer Street in Soho, W1, a hard-working husband and doting father-of three, brutally murdered a Soho prostitute called Rosa O’Neill. And yet, why he killed her remains the real mystery. Date: Monday 8th October 1963 Location: 12 Brewer Street, Soho, London, W1 Victims: 1 (Rosa O'Neill) Culprit:...