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Nominated for the BEST TRUE CRIME PODCAST award at the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is a unique UK true-crime podcast, presented as a guided walk of 300+ of London and the West End’s untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murder cases Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#225 - The 'Immoral' Mrs Pa...

09.21.2023

This is Part Two of Two of The ‘Immoral’ Mrs Patmore. On Saturday 4th August 1945, Private Cyril Patmore knocked on the door of 12 Greenhill Road in Harlesden to speak to his heavily pregnant wife, Kathleen. Expecting to give ...

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09.21.2023 #225 - The 'Immoral' Mrs Patmore - Part Two This is Part Two of Two of The ‘Immoral’ Mrs Patmore. On Saturday 4th August 1945, Private Cyril Patmore knocked on the door of 12 Greenhill Road in Harlesden to speak to his heavily pregnant wife, Kathleen. Expecting to give ...
09.14.2023 #224 - The 'Immoral' Mrs Patmore - Part One This is Part One of Two of The ‘Immoral’ Mrs Patmore. On Saturday 4th August 1945, Private Cyril Patmore knocked on the door of 12 Greenhill Road in Harlesden to speak to his heavily pregnant wife, Kathleen. Expecting to give ...
09.07.2023 #223 - "A Cripple for Life" On Monday 27th August of 1923 at 12:45am, 18-month-old Dorothy Kaslofski drowned in the river Thames having been thrown from Westminster Bridge. Only she didn’t fall, she was thrown by her mother in an act of mercy, having been given ...
08.31.2023 #222 - The Five Shilling Striptease On Thursday 23rd of November 1967 at just shy of midnight, Eric Simmons and David Williams entered GiGi’s, a low rent striptease at 62 Frith Street in Soho. They paid their money, they had a drink, they watched the show, ...
08.24.2023 #221 - The Saviour On Saturday 8th of October 1949, 27-year-old Denis Wilfred Barrett invited 19-year-old Kathleen Mary Rosam back to his lodging at 2 Shirland Road, W9. As a homeless girl who had resorted to prostitution to survive, he was desperate to save ...
08.18.2023 The Daily Inch #30 - 'Bad Titties' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.17.2023 The Daily Inch #29 - 'Death Bowl' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.16.2023 The Daily Inch #28 - 'The Sozzled Solicitor' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.15.2023 The Daily Inch #27 - 'Gas Leak' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.14.2023 The Daily Inch #26 - 'I See Dead People?' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.11.2023 The Daily Inch #25 - 'Going Out with a Bang' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.10.2023 The Daily Inch #24 - 'Egg Foo F**ked' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.09.2023 The Daily Inch #23- 'The Off Switch' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.08.2023 The Daily Inch #22 - 'The Curliest Brown Banana' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.07.2023 The Daily Inch #21 - 'It Just Needs a Plaster' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.04.2023 The Daily Inch #20 - 'The Life-Saving Booze of the Sinking Baker' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.03.2023 The Daily Inch #19 - 'The Fickle Finger of Fate' Friends. Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each ...
08.02.2023 The Daily Inch #18 - 'Mr Fanny Face-Fungus' Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each story ...
08.01.2023 The Daily Inch #17 - 'Ghost Yobs' Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each story ...
07.31.2023 The Daily Inch #16 - 'Emergency Boobies' Welcome to The Daily Inch. While I’m away researching Murder Mile, here’s a little treat to keep you entertained over the next three weeks. Fifteen little stories which are fun, rambly, informative, but not essential to listen to. Each story ...
07.27.2023 #220 - Shattered Memory (The Trial of Gunther Podola) - Part Three This is Part Three of Three of Shattered Memory. On Monday 13th of July at roughly 3:45pm, in the hallway of 105 Onslow Square in Kensington, SW7, 30-year-old German national Gunther Podola shot Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy dead. Traced to ...
07.20.2023 #219 - Shattered Memory (The Trial of Gunther Podola) - Part Two This is Part Two of Three of Shattered Memory. On Monday 13th of July at roughly 3:45pm, in the hallway of 105 Onslow Square in Kensington, SW7, 30-year-old German national Gunther Podola shot Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy dead. Traced to ...
07.13.2023 #218 - Shattered Memory (The Trial of Gunther Podola) - Part One This is Part One of Three of Shattered Memory. On Monday 13th of July at roughly 3:45pm, in the hallway of 105 Onslow Square in Kensington, SW7, 30-year-old German national Gunther Podola shot Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy dead. Traced to ...
07.06.2023 #217 - Eliza Crees and the Honeymoon from Hell On Wednesday 14th November 1883, William Crees married Eliza Horsman having known each other for just a few weeks. Initially it seemed like they were very much in love, but with William being a man with a few secrets, Eliza ...
06.29.2023 #216 - The Good Mother On Tuesday 17th of April 1951, Earl de Wolfe requested that Police break into his home at 19 Manchester Street in Marylebone, as he was worried about his wife Gabrielle and their four-year-old daughter Cherill. Having suffered a breakdown, Gabrielle’s ...
06.22.2023 #215 - The Woman in Red - Part Two of Two This is Part Two of Two of The Woman in Red. At 5:40am on Thursday 6th May 1948, on the basement steps of 17 Finborough Road in West Brompton, the broken body of 26-year-old part time waitress and prostitute Winifred ...
06.15.2023 #214 - The Woman in Red - Part One of Two This is Part One of Two of The Woman in Red. At 5:40am on Thursday 6th May 1948, on the basement steps of 17 Finborough Road in West Brompton, the broken body of 26-year-old part time waitress and prostitute Winifred ...
06.08.2023 #213 - "Finished with Life" (The Suicide of Father Louis Caceres) On 15th September 1894, being part way through a world tour to spread the word of God, Father Louis Caceres, a portly elderly priest had booked a room for himself and his faithful assistant Eugene at Blondel's Hotel on Old ...
06.01.2023 #212 - The Old Lady Killer - Part Two This is Part Two of Two of The Old Lady Killer. On Friday 7th of September 1973, just seven weeks after and one and a half miles east of the attack on Alice Parker, in Flat 6 of Newbury House, ...
05.25.2023 #211 - The Old Lady Killer - Part One This is Part One of Two of The Old Lady Killer. On Monday 11th June 1973 at roughly noon, as part of her routine, she was standing on the first floor walkway awaiting a visit from a librarian. Form out ...
05.18.2023 #210 - The Loser On the Christmas Eve of 1968, former Leeds footballer Dominic Kelly sought revenge on the hotel manager who had sacked him for his bad behaviour. Only being too fuelled by drink, anger and arrogance, he would inflict a truly horrifying ...
05.11.2023 #209 - Rags and Bones - Part Two This is Part Two of Two of Rags & Bones. On Thursday 13th March 1969, the body of a 52-year-old prostitute was found inside a derelict house on Kensal Road, W10. Her missing clothes lead to a very likely suspect, ...
05.04.2023 #208 - Rags and Bones - Part One This is Part One of Two of Rags & Bones. On the morning of Tuesday 11th March 1969, a 52-year-old prostitute known as ‘Scotch Maggie’ went missing from her home at 3 Oxford Gardens near Notting Hill. Two days later, ...
04.27.2023 #207 - A Jealous Streak On Wednesday 21st December 1853, 27 year old Hannah Heisse, a married mother-of-one gave birth to a baby daughter, later to be joined by her husband, a 34 year old tin plate worker called Bertolt Heisse. For three days, being ...
04.23.2023 Omnibus Edition - The Soho Strangler - Parts Eight to Ten This is the Omnibus Edition of The Soho Strangler - Parts Five to Seven, without Extra Mile. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.23.2023 Omnibus Edition - The Soho Strangler - Parts Five to Seven This is the Omnibus Edition of The Soho Strangler - Parts Five to Seven, without Extra Mile. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.23.2023 Omnibus Edition - The Soho Strangler - Parts One to Four This is the Omnibus Edition of The Soho Strangler - Parts One to Four, without Extra Mile. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.22.2023 Strangler Week - 'Norman's Timings' As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's ...
04.21.2023 Strangler Week - 'Twisted Statements' As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's ...
04.20.2023 Strangler Week - 'Other Prostitute Murders' As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's ...
04.19.2023 Strangler Week - 'Public Lies' As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's ...
04.18.2023 Strangler Week - 'False Articles' As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's ...
04.17.2023 Strangler Week - 'Eyewitness Testimony' As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's ...
04.16.2023 Strangler Week - 'Demonising the Victims' As a companion piece to The Soho Strangler series, I've included some in-depth analysis of each aspect. Such as; the demonising of the victims, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, false articles, public lies, other prostitute murders, how even a suspect's ...
04.13.2023 #206 - The Soho Strangler - Part Ten 'Norman Stephenson the Serial Strangler' This is Part Ten of Ten of The Soho Strangler. At the crime-scene of ‘French Marie’s murder, the culprit had left his fingerprints. At the pub and a nearby market, he was seen with the victim, just hours before ethe ...
04.06.2023 #205 - The Soho Strangler - Part Nine 'The Strangling of French Marie' This is Part Nine of Ten of The Soho Strangler. On Monday 16th August 1937, in the second floor lodging of a 48-year-old casual prostitute known as ‘French Marie’, a fourth French prostitute would strangled to death by an unknown ...
03.30.2023 #204 - The Soho Strangler - Part Eight 'Roger the Strangler's Slayer' This is Part Eight of Ten of The Soho Strangler. On Thursday 23rd January 1936 at 6:50pm, Red Max entered 35/36 Little Newport Street, the lodging of a petite French brunette known as ‘French Suzette’, who was the mistress of ...
03.23.2023 #203 - The Soho Strangler - Part Seven 'Red Max the Strangler' This is Part Seven of Ten of The Soho Strangler. With three women dead, no witnesses to their murders and no clues to their killer’s identity, although the Police still insisted that this was not the work of a serial-killer ...
03.16.2023 #202 - The Soho Strangler - Part Six 'Dutch Leah: The Making of a Monster' This is Part Six of Ten of The Soho Strangler. By May 1936, three women had been strangled, by an unknown assailant, in their own homes in Soho. With the Police investigation drawing to a familiar terrifying conclusion, that – ...
03.09.2023 #201 - The Soho Strangler - Part Five 'Dutch Leah: A Forgotten Woman' This is Part Five of Ten of The Soho Strangler. May 1936. Three weeks after and two street south of the murder of Marie Cotton, and just two streets east of French Fifi, ‘Dutch Leah’ a third sex-worker would be ...

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