#32 - The Blackout Ripper Part 8 (The life of Gordon Frederick Cummins)
The Blackout Ripper Part 8 (of 8): Who was Gordon Frederick Cummins? What incidents in his childhood made him kill? And why would he go on t...
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A weekly true-crime podcast and audio guided walk, featuring 300+ of London’s untold, unsolved and (often) forgotten murder cases, all within one square mile
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#31 - The Blackout Ripper Part 7
The Blackout Ripper Part 7 of 8: On Friday 13th February 1942, Gordon Frederick Cummins was arrested for assault, and as the evidence mounte...
#30 - The Blackout Ripper Part 6
The Blackout Ripper Part 6: On the morning of Friday 13 th February 1942, The Blackout Ripper was caught and arrested, but not for the bruta...
#29 - The Blackout Ripper Part 5
The Blackout Ripper Part 5: Before the brutal murder of 34 year old Doris Jouanett on Thursday 12th February 1942 at roughly 11pm, The Black...
#28 - The Blackout Ripper Part 4
The Blackout Ripper Part 4: On 12th February 1942, 32 year old Doris Jouanett was found strangled, posed and mutilated in her flat at 187 Su...
#27 - The Blackout Ripper Part 3
The Blackout Ripper Part 3: On 11th February 1942, 43 year old Margaret Florence Lowe was found strangled, posed and mutilated in her flat a...
#26 - The Blackout Ripper Part 2
The Blackout Ripper Part 2: On 10th February 1942, 34 year old Evelyn Oatley was found strangled, posed and mutilated in her flat at 153 War...
#25 - The Blackout Ripper Part 1
The Blackout Ripper Part 1: On 9th February 1942, 41 year old Evelyn Margaret Hamilton was found strangled and posed in an air-raid shelter...
#24 - Canal Killers John Sweeney - Part 2
PART 2 OF 2: On 19th February 2001, ten dismembered body-parts of an unidentified woman were found submerged in the Regent's Canal, in a sic...
#23 - Canal Killers - John Sweeney Part 1
PART 1 OF 2: On 19th February 2001, at Battlebridge Basin, ten dismembered body-parts, belonging to an unidentified woman, wrapped in six se...
#22 - Canal Killers - Tomasz Kocik (Marta Ligman)
On the afternoon of Sunday 10th May 2015, a suitcase was found floating in the Grand Union Canal in Little Venice containing the folded-up c...
#21 - Canal Killers - Sebastiano Magnanini
On the evening of Tuesday 22nd September 2015, Italian tour-guide and English teacher Sebastiano Magnanini was last seen alive walking by Ki...
The Extra Mile Part 2
This is part two of The Extra Mile, a special behind-the-scene episode of Murder Mile true-crime podcast, whilst I'm busy researching the ne...
The Extra Mile Part 1
Warning: This is NOT a regular episode of Murder Mile. Whilst I'm at the National Archive, knee-deep in Police investigation files, this wee...
#20 - The Bungled Assassinations of Alexander LItvinenko
On 1st November 2006, Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was assassinated in the heart of London's West End, by two of Russia's top assa...
#19 - Norah Upchurch and her Lonely Death in the Empty Shop Part 2
The original Daily Sketch article in which Frederick Field (left) confessed to the murder of Annie Upchurch (right) On Tuesday 25th July 193...
#18 - Norah Upchurch and her Lonely Death in the Empty Shop Part 1
177 Shaftesbury Avenue as it looked in 1931 On Friday 2nd October 1931, West End prostitute Norah Upchurch was found strangled inside a lock...
#17 - David Martin and the Baffling Case of the Transgender Houdini
David Martin (left) and Stephen Waldorf (right). On Christmas Eve 1982, 36 year old David Ralph Martin was charged at the Marlborough Street...
#16 - Richard Rhodes Henley - the Seaman, the Semen and the murder of the Porn Peddler
Big Al's "book-shop" in Dean Street, Soho. On Saturday 27th October 1956, 26 year old Canadian sailor Richard Rhodes Henley committed armed...
#15 - The Almost Double Deaths of the Disgruntled Dish Washer
A crime scene photo taken at Bellometti's Restaurant. On Friday 12th May 1933, 31 year old disgruntled dish-washer Varnavros Antorka murdere...