Murder Mile UK True Crime

Nov 20 2024 376 ep. 55 mins 10.2k
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Nominated for the BEST TRUE CRIME PODCAST award at the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile UK True Crime 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. Praised as one of the best British and UK True Crime podcasts, as well as 4th Best True-Crime Podcast by This Week, iTunes Top 25 Podcast, Podcast Magazine's Hot 50, The Telegraph's Top 5, Crime & Investigation Channel's Top 20 True-Crime Podcasts, also seen on BBC Radio, Sky News, The Guardian and Talk Radio's Podcast of the Week.

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#276 - Killing for Victory

Nov 20 2024 58 mins  
In the evening of Tuesday 20th of May 1941, 28-year-old single-mother Phyllis Crocker and her 18-month-old daughter Eileen went to bed, as usual. Being 3 months pregnant, Phyllis drank a cup of cocoa to help her sleep, as made by her husband, Lionel Watson. But little did she know it would make her sleep for an eternity.Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael of

#275 - Stolen Womanhood

Nov 13 2024 54 mins  
On Sunday 5th of November 1978, at a little after 5:30pm, two women stood at a bus stop on Sydney Place in Kensington, SW7, waiting for the rush hour bus. Having been close friends for decades, there seemed to be an odd friction between them, and although their issue was of a personal nature, within minutes, one would be a wanted criminal on the run, and the other would be shot dea

#274 - Immoral Earnings

Nov 06 2024 62 mins  
1st August 1970, 20-year-old Mary McCormack of Limerick was found strangled in her ground floor flat at 85 Talgarth Road in Baron’s Court, W14. With no signs of a break-in, the police suspected it was either a client who she let in, or a tenant with a key. But did the Police convict the right man?Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True C

#273 - A 'Bad' Man

Oct 30 2024 62 mins  
On Tuesday 11th August 1936, at roughly noon, in the basement flat of 7 Roseford Gardens in Shepherd’s Bush, 66-year-old widow Elizabeth Fortescue was smothered to death, as her attacker ransacked her flat. Given the violence used against her, the Police suspected “she had died at the hands of a violent man”. But how true was that?Murder Mile is researched, written and perfor

#272 - Red Mist

Oct 23 2024 58 mins  
On Sunday 31st July 1949, just before midnight, Michael Martin unleashed a violent attack on a defenseless 53-year-old prostitute known locally as ‘Mona’. To the press, it seemed like an all-too-familiar story of a destitute woman who was brutally murdered by a horny drunken punter, but with time and infirmity catching up with all of us, this anonymous streetwalker’s death ma

#271 - Vicious Circles

Oct 16 2024 63 mins  
On Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th of August 2021, having recently been released from prison, Lee Peacock brutally murdered his ex-partner Sharon Pickles and her partner Clinton Ashmore. But was this due to jealousy, or a drug-induced paranoia, or jealousy, being stuck inside their own ‘vicious circles’.Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile

#270 - The 'Taxi Driver' Murders - Part Two

Oct 09 2024 59 mins  
This is Part Two of Two of The 'Taxi Driver' Murders.Two weeks after the murder of veteran taxi-driver Frank Everitt, a 39-year-old black marketeet called Reuben Martirosoff alias 'Russian Robert' was murdered in an almost identical way. Only this didn't look like a meticulously planned execution, it looked like the epitome of incompetence. Murder Mile is researched, written and pe

#269 - The 'Taxi Driver' Murders - Part One

Oct 02 2024 55 mins  
This is Part One of Two of The 'Taxi Driver' Murders. On Thursday 18th of October 1945, the bloodied body of veteran taxi-driver Frank Everitt was found wedged on the bridge in a hole at the pump house on Lambeth Bridge, which he could hardly fit into. At first, it seemed like he was either stuck or sleeping, but was this just a crude attempt to conceal a corpse, or a meticulously

#268 - The Savaged 'Prince'

Sep 25 2024 65 mins  
On the evening of Monday 18th of September 1989, 40-year-old Christoph Schliack, an eccentric German who many only knew as 'The Prince' left the White Horse pub with two men. 30 minutes later, he would be brutally stabbed to death. But why? Was it political, personal, was it a robbery, or was it a known homosexual?Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murde

#267 - Sadistic Cruelty

Sep 18 2024 60 mins  
Shakira Spencer was a loving mother-of-two, who lived to be loved and gave it back in spades. But when her “best friend” became her worst enemy, her life no longer became her own, she was reduced to being little more than a slave, and across the weekend Friday 9th to Monday 12th of September 2022 – out of boredom or spite - her so-called friends subjected her to what the judg