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    Murder Mile UK True Crime

    EIGHT TIME AWARD NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards as Best True Crime Podcast. Murder Mile UK True Crime is a unique London-based true-crime podcast, focused on Soho, the West End and West London, presented as a guided walk of 300+ untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murder cases.

    If you’re looking for intensely researched and in-depth multipart series, Murder Mile has covered spree killer Gordon Cummings aka ‘The Blackout Ripper’, John George Haigh ‘The Acid Bath Murderer’, John Reginald Christie of ’10 Rillington Place’, Anthony Hardy ‘The Camden Ripper’, Dennis Nilsen ‘The Muswell HIll Killer’, The Thames Towpath Murderer, Daniel Gonzales ‘The Freddy Krueger killer’, The Soho Strangler regarded as the second Jack the Ripper, Michael Jamieson The Shoe Box Killer, M4 r*pist John Steed, London cannibal Peter Bryan, and ‘the Devil’s Disciple’ Patrick MacKay, and coming soon, the Hammersmith Nudes alias ‘Jack the Stripper’. 

    As well an unearthing new angle and evidence on infamous British murder cases; such as Gunther Podola, Emmy Werner, David Frooms, Alice Gross, Andrezej Kunowski, Katerina Koneva, Emily Beilby Kaye, The Denmark Place Fire, The Bombing of the Admiral Duncan, Alfredo Zomparelli, Karl Gustav Hulton, and previously unsolved cases like ‘The Night Porter’, Gladys Hanrahan, ‘Fat Fred’, The Old Lady Killer, the Bayswater arsonist, the gay panic, and a wealth of cases you won’t have heard before, and won’t hear anywhere else, as well as specialists pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury.

    Covering just 20 square miles of West London, Murder Mile gives into thrilling and heart-wrenching cases involving serial killers, assassinations, massacres, hitmen, torturers, drug dealers, cults, child killers, extortion, prostitution, gangland slayings, abortionists, poisoners, slavery, and personal tragedy.

    Having garnered more than 3000+ five-star reviews, Murder Mile has been praised in the press as Podcast Magazine’s Hot 50, The Telegraph’s Top 5, 4th Best True-Crime Podcast by This Week, iTunes Top 25 Podcast, Crime & Investigation Channel’s Top 20 True-Crime Podcasts, also seen on BBC Radio, Sky News, The Guardian and TalkRadio’s Podcast of the Week. Murder Mile has been the primary research on true crime podcasts Casefile, Morbid, My Favorite Murder, and Michael was also a consultant on highly acclaimed podcast series Bad Woman: The Blackout Ripper hosted by historian Hallie Rubenhold, author of ‘The Five’. Murder Mile UK True Crime has had 15 million+ downloads and continues to grow year on year, as it maintains (and improves on) its quality in research, storytelling and sound design. It continually strives to be original, different and always bring the audience a podcast series they can’t hear anywhere else. Murder Mile is unique and its fans appreciate that.

     

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    #110 - A Memorial to The Fallen (Hyde Park, London, W2) Oct 22, 2020
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    On Friday 5th July 1940 at 13:45pm, War Reservist Constable Jack William Avery left his post at the 'Old Police House' in Hyde Park having been alerted to a man "acting suspisiously" near the gun-emplacements. Confronting the man, PC Avery was stabbed to death. PC Avery is one of 1600 police officers to have died since policing began... but is there more to this story, why did he die and who was Frank Stephen Cobbett?

    • Date: Friday 5th July 1940
    • Location: Hyde Park, Baywater, London, W2
    • Victims: 1 (Jack William Avery)
    • Culprits: 1 (Frank Stephen Cobbett)


    Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.


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    #109 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part Three (The Suspect, Alfred Charles Whiteway) Sep 17, 2020
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    This is Part Three of Three of the Thames Towpath Murders.


    Across May & June 1953, a violent serial rapist who would attack lone women in isolated spots in and around Teddington, and yet, going against his own method, that same man would rape and murder two young girls at the same time. But why?

    • Date: 26th May to 17th June 1953
    • Location: Teddington Lock, Oxshott Heath and Windsor Great Park, London,
    • Victims: 4 (Barbara Songhurst, Christine Rose Reed, Patricia Birch and Kathleen Ringham)
    • Culprits: 1 (Alfred Charles Whiteway)


    Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.


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    #108 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part Two (The Investigation, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed) Sep 10, 2020
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    This is Part Two of Three of The Thames Towpath Murders.


    On the morning of Monday 1st June 1953, at 09:05am, the body of Barbara Songhurst was pulled out of the River Thames at Radnor Gardens and brought ashore at St Helena Pier, as many dead bodies are. But even before an autopsy was conducted, Scotland Yard were notified, as this was no accident, this was unmistakably a murder.

    • Date: Monday 1st June 1953
    • Location: St Helena Pier, by Richmond Bridge, Twickenham, TW1
    • Victims: 2 (Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed)
    • Culprits: 1 (Alfred Charles Whiteway)


    Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.


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    #107 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part One (The Girls, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed) Sep 03, 2020
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    This is Part One of Three of the Thames Towpath Murders.


    On the night of Sunday 31st May 1953, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Reed, two innocent and inseparable best-friends were brutally raped and murdered on a peaceful towpath and their bodies were dumped in the River Thames. But who would want these two young girls dead, and why?

    • Date: Sunday 31st May 1953
    • Location: Teddington Lock, a towpath off the River Thames, Twickenham, TW1,
    • Victims: 2 (Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed)
    • Culprits: 1 (Alfred Charles Whiteway)


    Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.


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    #106 - The Last Love of the Chiswick Cat Ladies (Chiswick, London, W4) Aug 27, 2020
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    On the morning of Friday 27th August 1971, in the basement flat at 15 Linden Gardens in Chiswick, W4; with her family life in tatters, her emotions frought and everything she had ever loved destroyed, being at a loss at her lover’s rejection, Nora Tenconi took several desperate steps which ended in death. But why?

    • Date: Friday 27th August 1971
    • Location: Basement Flat, 15A Linden Gardens, Chiswick, W4
    • Victims: 1 (Barbara Judith Doyle)
    • Culprits: 1 (Nora Tenconi nee O'Donnell)


    Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.


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    #105 - Meux and the Man-Made Tidal Wave (aka the London Beer Flood) Aug 20, 2020
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    On Monday 17th October 1814, at 5:30pm, an iron hoop on a vat of Porter beer at the Horseshoe Brewery would slip, it didn't seem like an emergency, but it would unleash a deadly tidal wave which would change Great Russell Street and the residents of The Rookery forever

    • Date: Monday 17th October 1814
    • Location: Meux & Co's Horseshoe Brewery, Tottenham Court Road, Bloomsbury, London, W1
    • Victims: 8 (Eleanor Cooper, Mary Murry/ Mulvey, Thomas Murry, Hannah Banfield, Sarah Bates, Anne Saville, Elizabeth Smith and Catherine Butler)
    • Culprits: 0 (Sir Henry Meux & Charles Young) were found innoncent


    Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.

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    #104 - The 'Elementary' Murder of William Raven (Marylebone, London, W2) Aug 13, 2020
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    On Thursday 15th October 1942, in flat 34 of Chalfont Court at 236 Baker Street, the body of William Raven was discovered. He was an elegant sociable divorcee and co-owner of a gentleman’s outfitters with no enemies, who was found battered to death in his own bed. Everybody liked him. But was this a bungled robbery, a revenge attack, or was it something a little more ordinary?

    • Date: Thursday 15th October 1942
    • Location: Flat 34 of Chalfont Court at 236 Baker Street, London, NW1
    • Victims: 1 (William Raven)
    • Culprits: 1 (Henry Smith & George Frederick Brimacombe)

    Note: Henry was acquitted and George was found guilty of manslaughter only.


    Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here.


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    #103 - The Beating of Baby Richard (Soho child killer) Aug 06, 2020
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    On Tuesday 4th October 1853, in a squalid first-floor lodging at 6 Little Dean Street, the beating of baby Richard began… and ten days later, he would be dead. Described as a ‘bastard’ child, his widowed mother struggled against insurmountable odds in the hope that he would survive, only those she was forced to trust with his care, became his killers.

    • ate: Tuesday 4th to Friday 14th October 1853
    • Location: 6 Little Dean Street, now called Bourchier Street, W1
    • Victims: 1 (Richard Higgs, possibly Ryall or Banks)
    • Culprits: 1 (Joseph Birch and Caroline Nash)


    Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here.


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    #102 - The Five Alibis of James Forbes McCallum (Covent Garden, London, WC2) Jul 30, 2020
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    On Friday 20th December 1940, James Forbes McCallum robbed the Coach & Horses public house in Covent Garden; he was a desperate man whose first and only robbery was ill-judged, unplanned and such a catastrophic failure that it ended in death. And yet, when he was arrested, he was so panicked, he gave the Police five plausible alibis. But which alibi was right?

    • Date: Friday 20th December 1940 at 5:15am
    • Location: The Coach & Horses, 42 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2
    • Victims: 1 (Morris Sholman)
    • Culprits: 1 (James Forbes McCallum)


    Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here.


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    #101 - The Fatal Seizure of John Esmond Murphy (Soho, London, W1) Jul 23, 2020
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    On Saturday 7th November 1908, at 11:40am, John Esmond Murphy walked into the bank of Cartmell & Schlittle at 84 Shaftesbury Avenue. Overwhelming evidence pointed to the fact that he bungled a heist, pulled a gun, shot and stabbed the manager dead, and was then captured, arrested, convicted and executed. But did he actually do it?

    • Date: Saturday 7th November 1908 at 11:40am
    • Location: Cartmell & Schlittle at 84 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, London, W1
    • Victims: 1 (Fredrich George Wilhelm Maria Julius Schlitte)
    • Culprits: 1 (John "Jack" Esmond Murphy)


    Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here.


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