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 floor flat, 46 Calthorpe Street, Holborn, London, WC1
• Victims: 1 (Elizabeth Henrietta Wakefield)
• Culprit: Frederick John Cox

Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with music written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music by Kai Engel, Parvus Decree, Kevin MacLeod and Seclorance, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive. A full listing of tracks used and sources for each episode is listed in the blog.

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