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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)


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