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

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 foreverDate: Monday 17th October 1814Location: Meux & Co's Horseshoe Brewery, Tottenham Court Road, Bloomsbury, London, W1Victims: 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 innoncentMurder 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. FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutube SUPPORT THE PODCAST:Support us via PATREON.Buy Merch in THE SHOPFree Goodies HERESupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

20 Aug 20201h 13min

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 1942Location: Flat 34 of Chalfont Court at 236 Baker Street, London, NW1Victims: 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.FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutubeSUPPORT THE PODCAST:Support us via PATREON.Buy Merch in THE SHOPFree Goodies HERESupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

13 Aug 20201h 20min

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 1853Location: 6 Little Dean Street, now called Bourchier Street, W1Victims: 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.FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutubeSUPPORT THE PODCAST:Support us via PATREON.Buy Merch in THE SHOPFree Goodies HERE* * * * as mentioned * * * *Murder Mile Face Mask via ThreadlessSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

6 Aug 20201h 14min

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 5:15amLocation: The Coach & Horses, 42 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2Victims: 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.FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutubeSUPPORT THE PODCAST:Support us via PATREON.Buy Merch in THE SHOPFree Goodies HERESupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

30 Jul 20201h 13min

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 11:40amLocation: Cartmell & Schlittle at 84 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, London, W1Victims: 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.FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutube SUPPORT THE PODCAST:Support us via PATREON.Buy Merch in THE SHOPFree Goodies HERESupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23 Jul 20201h 17min

On Wednesday 13th March 1940 at 4:30pm, in the Tudor Room of Caxton Hall, Udham Singh would murder Sir Michael O'Dwyer, a man he had never met before, but fuelled by hatred over twenty-one years, Udham’s reason to kill would make him not just a murderer, but a martyr.Date: Wednesday 13th March 1940Location: Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, SW1Victims: 1 (Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer)Culprits: 1 (Udham Singh)Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with music 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.FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutubeSUPPORT THE PODCAST:Support us via PATREON.Buy Merch in THE SHOPFree Goodies HERESupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

16 Jul 20201h 9min

On Sunday 29th May 1887, in the first-floor flat of 29 Great Windmill Street in Soho, twenty-year-old Amelie Pottle had a "little accident" with an oil-lamp which would lead to her slow and painful death. But was it a mishap, or a murder?Date: Sunday 29th May 1887 to Monday 30th May 1887Location: 29 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London, W1 (now Nico Didonna)Victims: 1 (Amelia Pottle)Culprits: 1 (Franz Schultz)Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with music 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. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here.FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutubeSUPPORT THE PODCAST:Support us via PATREON.Buy Merch in THE SHOPFree Goodies HERESupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

9 Jul 20201h 12min

At just before midnight on Sunday 2nd April 1989, Victor Castigador and his small gang of cohorts robbed the Leisure Investments amusement arcade at 23 Gerrard Street in Chinatown, but owing to a very petty grudge, Victor would turn a simply robbery for a few thousand pounds into one of London's worst and most horrific mass-murders.Date: Sunday 2nd April 1989 to Monday 3rd April 1989Location: 23 Gerrard Street, Chinatown, London, W1 (now the 'Play 2 Win' arcade)Victims: 4 (Ambikalpahan Anapayan, Kandiahkanapathy Vinayagamoorthy, Deborah Bernadine Alvarez and Yurev Alejandro Gomez)Culprits: 5 (Victor Morales Castigador, Calvin Graham Nelson, Paul Stephen Clinton, Karen Dunn and Allison Linda Woodside) - note: only Victor & Calvin were charged with murder and attempted murder, the others were charged with robbery.Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with music 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. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here. FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutube SUPPORT THE PODCAST:Support us via PATREON.Buy Merch in THE SHOPFree Goodies HERESupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2 Jul 20201h 17min