#21 - Canal Killers - Sebastiano Magnanini (King's Cross, Islington, N1)
On the evening of Tuesday 22nd September 2015, Italian tour-guide and English teacher Sebastiano Magnanini was last seen alive walking by King’s Cross Station. Two days later, his decomposing body was...
15 Mars 201842min
#20 - The Bungled Assassinations of Alexander Litvinenko (Mayfair, London, W1))
On 1st November 2006, Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was assassinated in the heart of London’s West End, by two of Russia’s top assassins, using one of the most bizarre and deadliest poisons e...
22 Feb 201845min
#19 - Norah Upchurch and her Lonely Death in the Empty Shop Part 2 (Bloomsbury, London, W1)
On Tuesday 25th July 1933, 27 year old Frederick Field fully confessed to the murder of West End prostitute Norah Upchurch who was found strangled inside a locked empty shop in Shaftesbury Avenue. And...
15 Feb 201838min
#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 ...
8 Feb 201832min
#17 - David Martin and the Baffling Case of the Transgender Houdini (Marylebone, London, W2)
On Christmas Eve 1982, 36 year old David Ralph Martin was charged at the Marlborough Street Magistrates Court on twelve counts including armed robbery, theft, fraud and attempted murder, but his bungl...
1 Feb 201839min
#16 - Richard Rhodes Henley - the Seaman, the Semen and the murder of the Porn Peddler (Soho, London, W1)
On Saturday 27th October 1956, 26 year old Canadian sailor Richard Rhodes Henley committed armed robbery for the first and very last time, but he didn’t steal money, or booze, or drugs to feed his hab...
25 Jan 201831min
#15 - The Almost Double Deaths of the Disgruntled Dish Washer (Soho, London, W1)
On Friday 12th May 1933, 31 year old disgruntled dish-washer Varnavros Antorka murdered his overbearing boss, head-chef Boleslaw Pankorski at Bellometti’s restaurant in Soho Square, and yet this brief...
18 Jan 201833min
#14 - William Stoltzer and the stabbing of Peter Keim (Soho, London, W1)
On Saturday 30th September 1843, 28 year old William Stoltzer stabbed Peter Keim once in the stomach with a boot-maker’s knife, and even though he confessed to the murder; the life, the death and the ...
11 Jan 201831min
