#18 - Norah Upchurch and her Lonely Death in the Empty Shop - Part 1 (Bloomsbury, London, W1)

#18 - Norah Upchurch and her Lonely Death in the Empty Shop - Part 1 (Bloomsbury, London, W1)

On Friday 2nd October 1931, West End prostitute Norah Upchurch was found strangled inside a locked empty shop in Shaftesbury Avenue; with no sign of a break-in, no-one knows how she got in or how her killer got out. 87 years since her murder, her killer has never been caught. Or was he?

  • Date: Tuesday 29th October 1931
  • Location: 177 Shaftesbury Avenue (now demolished), Bloomsbury, London, W1)
  • Victims: 1 (Annie Louise Norah Upchurch)
  • Culprit: Frederick Herbert Charles Field


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#291 - The Scourge of Soho (Ernest Pink & Det Sgt Harold Challoner)

#291 - The Scourge of Soho (Ernest Pink & Det Sgt Harold Challoner)

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#290 - A God called JACKIE (Aravindan Balakrishnan, Brixton, UK)

#290 - A God called JACKIE (Aravindan Balakrishnan, Brixton, UK)

On Friday 25th of October 2013 at 11:15am, charity workers aided by the police coordinated the escape of several followers from a flat in Brixton. Some of the women had been held for 30+ years, one fo...

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#289 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part Two (Thomas John Ley, Kensington, London)

#289 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part Two (Thomas John Ley, Kensington, London)

This is Part Two of Two of The Chalk Pit Murder. On Thursday 28th of November 1946, Australian politician Thomas Ley enlisted four good people to help him trap a bad man who terrorised women. As a sim...

20 Mars 20251h 1min

#288 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part One (John McMain Mudie, Kensington, UK)

#288 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part One (John McMain Mudie, Kensington, UK)

This is Part One of Two of The Chalk Pit Murder. On Thursday 28th of November 1946, Australian politician Thomas Ley enlisted four good people to help him trap a bad man who terrorised women. As a sim...

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#287 - The PIN Heads (Xyaire Howard / Chelsea Grant)

#287 - The PIN Heads (Xyaire Howard / Chelsea Grant)

On Tuesday 6th of September 2022, 71-year-old Susan Hawkey was last seen entering her flat on Aylesbury Street in Neasden. Nobody saw her, nobody heard her, and – although vulnerable and afraid - no-o...

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#286 - The Black Cap Farce (Edith McQuaid, Soho, UK)

#286 - The Black Cap Farce (Edith McQuaid, Soho, UK)

On 1st January 1932, in the attic room of 27 Old Compton Street in Soho, 19-year-old domestic servant Edith McQuaid gave birth to a baby boy. Whether he died of natural causes, or she took his life by...

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#285 - The Suitcase of Death (Jemma Mitchell & Mee Kuen Chong)

#285 - The Suitcase of Death (Jemma Mitchell & Mee Kuen Chong)

On Friday 11th of June 2021 at 6:23am, 34-year-old Jemma Mitchell left her home at 9 Brondesbury Park in Wilsden to visit her friend and fellow Christian Mee Kuen Chong known as Deborah. She was wheel...

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#284 - Dead Man's Hand (Bayswater, London, UK)

#284 - Dead Man's Hand (Bayswater, London, UK)

Monday 31st of October 1960, at 5:30pm, the body of 53-year-old William Davies was found inside the top-floor flat of 5 Westbourne Park Road in Bayswater, London, W2. There was no sign of a break-in, ...

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