#3 - The Bedfordbury Baby-Batterer (Covent Garden, London, WC2)

#3 - The Bedfordbury Baby-Batterer (Covent Garden, London, WC2)

On Saturday 5th September 1901, two year old Thomas James Mills was brutally beaten to death by his death by his depressed, unemployed and alcoholic father, but what initially seemed like a simple case of infanticide may actually be a lot more complicated, and although almost entirely forgotten, it is a murder case which will give you a shocking insight into the brutal and cruel life as a pauper living in one of London’s worst slums.

  • Date: Saturday 5th September 1901
  • Location: 3 Bedfordbury, Covent Garden, London, WC2
  • Victims: 1 (Thomas James Mills)
  • Culprit: James John Richardson


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#51 - The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place - Part Four (Timothy John Evans)

#51 - The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place - Part Four (Timothy John Evans)

On 30th November 1949, 24 year old Timothy John Evans walked into Merthyr Vale Police Station and confessed to disposing of the body of his wife Beryl Evans, following a failed abortion attempt at 10 ...

13 Joulu 20181h 3min

#50 - The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place - Part Three (Beryl Susanna Evans)

#50 - The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place - Part Three (Beryl Susanna Evans)

On 8th November 1949, 20 year old Beryl Susanna Evans, a married mother-of-one who lived in the second floor flat at 10 Rillington Place, died following a suspected suicide attempt after a series of f...

6 Joulu 20181h 3min

#49 - The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place - Part Two (Muriel Amelia Eady)

#49 - The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place - Part Two (Muriel Amelia Eady)

On Saturday 7th October 1944, 32 year old East London orphan Muriel Eady vanished from Ladbroke Grove in West London, one year after 21 year old Ruth Fuerst, but with this being war-time, it was belie...

29 Marras 20181h 16min

#48 - The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place - Part One (Ruth Margarete Christina Fuerst)

#48 - The Other Side of 10 Rillington Place - Part One (Ruth Margarete Christina Fuerst)

On Tuesday 24th August 1943, 21 year old Austrian refugee Ruth Fuerst vanished from Ladbroke Grove in West London. Having been missing for almost a decade, it was believed that she was just one of tho...

22 Marras 20181h 15min

#47 - Who Killed Freddie Mills? Part Two (Soho, London, W1)

#47 - Who Killed Freddie Mills? Part Two (Soho, London, W1)

This is part two of a two-part episode. On Sunday 25th July 1965, in Goslett Yard in Soho; world champion light-heavyweight boxer, film star and club-owner Freddie Mills was found dead, shot in the he...

15 Marras 20181h 20min

#46 - Who Killed Freddie Mills? Part One (Soho, London, W1)

#46 - Who Killed Freddie Mills? Part One (Soho, London, W1)

On Sunday 25th July 1965, in Goslett Yard in Soho; world champion light-heavyweight boxer, film star and club-owner Freddie Mills was found dead, shot in the head. But was it a suicide, or murder? Thi...

8 Marras 20181h 6min

#45 - Who Killed Camille Gordon? (Soho, London, W1)

#45 - Who Killed Camille Gordon? (Soho, London, W1)

On Monday 1st March 2004, Camille Gordon; a bubbly student with a beaming smile, a big heart and a bright future, who had no enemies, only friends, and yet, she was stabbed to death outside of The Blu...

27 Syys 20181h 20min

#44 - Susan Moir: The Brutal Life of the Baker's Wife (Covent Garden, London, WC2)

#44 - Susan Moir: The Brutal Life of the Baker's Wife (Covent Garden, London, WC2)

Between Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd, Sunday 24th and Monday 25th March 1850, at 25 Brydges Street, a baker’s wife called Susan Moir was literally beaten to death. And although this story is almost 170 ...

20 Syys 20181h 6min

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