Murder Mile UK True Crime

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, and yet this brief moment of madness almost lead to him being convicted of double murder. Date: Friday 12th May 1933 Location: 27 Soho Square (now demolished), Soho, London, W1 Victims: 1 (Boleslaw "Paul" Pankorski) Cu...

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, the death and the trail of William Stoltzer is as strange and mysterious as both his past and future. Date:  Saturday 30th September 1843 Location:  Silver Street  (now Beak Street), Soho, London, W1 Vic...

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 remains unsolved, her life is even more mysterious than her death. Date: Saturday 10th November 1946 Location: 50 Carnaby Street  (now Ben Sherman), Carnaby Street, Soho, London, W1 Victims: 1 (Margaret Cook) Culpri...

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; here they drank, laughed and headed back to his place for more drink, a bite to eat, some sex and a sleep… but whether he’d ever wake-up again was not his decision, as he had just spent the night with one of Britain...

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, a bite to eat, some sex and a sleep… but whether he’d ever wake-up again was not his decision, as he had just spent the night with one of Britain’s most infamous serial killers – Dennis Nilsen. Murder Mile is a true-cr...

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 hitmen in what was supposedly a contract killing. But who ordered him killed? And why? Date: Wednesday 4th September 1974 Location: 36-38 Old Compton Street (now Muriel's Kitchen), Soho, London, W1 Victims: 1 (Alfredo Zompare...

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 rival pimps, a disagreement between jealous lovers, or was she murdered at the hands of a homicidal maniac? Date: Saturday 25th September 1948 Location: 46 Broadwick Street, Soho, London, W1 Victims: 1 (Rachel Annie Fennick)...

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 death remains shrouded in so much mystery, that 70 years on, her murder may remain unsolved forever. Date: Saturday 25th September 1948 Location: 46 Broadwick Street, Soho, London, W1 Victims: 1 (Rachel Annie Fennick) Cul...

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 a £15 ornamental dress sword. And as shocking as the case was, how the culprit was caught, would be a watershed moment in modern British murder investigations. Date: Friday 3rd March 1961 Location: 23 Cecil Court, off Ch...

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 and painful death is not the most shocking element of this case, as although this isn’t a murder (as such), the actions of the man who killed her and the outcome of this story is certain to make your blood boil Date: Sat...

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 and injured one hundred and forty, but his aim to drive apart London’s multicultural communities failed spectacularly. Date:  Friday 30th April 1999 Location: Admiral Duncan, 54 Old Compton Street, Soho, London...

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 unsolved. And yet, the secret life of the Soho prostitute “Dutch Leah” is even more mysterious than her murder. Date:  Saturday 9th May 1936 Location:  66 Old Compton Street, Soho, London, W1 Victims:  1 &nb...

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 seemed like a simple case of infanticide may actually be a lot more complicated, and although almost entirely forgotten, it is a murder case which will give you a shocking insight into the brutal and cruel life as a pauper l...

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, but what seemed like a simple double homicide involving a turf war was anything but. Murder Mile is a true-crime podcast and audio-guided walk of London’s most notorious (and often forgotten) murder cases, all set withi...

On Saturday 16th August 1980, 42 year old convicted thief John Thompson had a petty dispute with a barman at an illegal nightclub at 18 Denmark Place (London). What began as a minor argument, soon escalated into one of Britain’s deadliest mass-murderers, and yet almost 40 years on, the story, the victims and even the perpetrator himself is almost entirely forgotten. The question you have to ask yo...