#65 - The Unfortunate Mr Johnson (Soho, London, W1)

This is Part Eight of Ten of The Soho Strangler.On Thursday 23rd January 1936 at 6:50pm, Red Max entered 35/36 Little Newport Street, the lodging of a petite French brunette known as ‘French Suzette’,...

30 Mar 20231h 6min

This is Part Seven of Ten of The Soho Strangler.With three women dead, no witnesses to their murders and no clues to their killer’s identity, although the Police still insisted that this was not the w...

23 Mar 20231h 5min

This is Part Six of Ten of The Soho Strangler.By May 1936, three women had been strangled, by an unknown assailant, in their own homes in Soho. With the Police investigation drawing to a familiar terr...

16 Mar 20231h 13min

This is Part Five of Ten of The Soho Strangler.May 1936. Three weeks after and two street south of the murder of Marie Cotton, and just two streets east of French Fifi, ‘Dutch Leah’ a third sex-worker...

9 Mar 20231h 4min

This is Part Four of Ten of The Soho Strangler.By the morning of Friday 17th April 1936, word had spread around Soho that 43-year-old Jeanne-Marie Cotton had been murdered; strangled in her own flat, ...

2 Mar 20231h 10min

This is Part Three of Ten of The Soho Strangler.Five months later, the murder of Soho prostitute ‘French Fifi’ was forgotten.On Thursday 16th April 1936, the body of 43-year-old French national Jeanne...

23 Feb 20231h 6min

This is Part Two of Ten of The Soho Strangler.Having discovered the body of 41-year-old prostitute 'French Fifi' in her bedroom, the police surgeon had determined that that her death was "most probabl...

16 Feb 20231h 9min

This is Part One of Ten of The Soho Strangler. On Monday 4th November 1935, at roughly noon, the body of 41—year-old Josephine Martin, a Soho prostitute known as ‘French Fifi’ was found by her maid in...

9 Feb 20231h 8min