#110 - A Memorial to The Fallen (Hyde Park, London, W2)
On Friday 5th July 1940 at 13:45pm, War Reservist Constable Jack William Avery left his post at the 'Old Police House' in Hyde Park having been alerted to a man "acting suspisiously" near the gun-empl...
22 Okt 20201h 9min
#109 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part Three (The Suspect, Alfred Charles Whiteway)
This is Part Three of Three of the Thames Towpath Murders.Across May & June 1953, a violent serial rapist who would attack lone women in isolated spots in and around Teddington, and yet, going against...
17 Sep 20201h 13min
#108 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part Two (The Investigation, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed)
This is Part Two of Three of The Thames Towpath Murders.On the morning of Monday 1st June 1953, at 09:05am, the body of Barbara Songhurst was pulled out of the River Thames at Radnor Gardens and broug...
10 Sep 20201h 7min
#107 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part One (The Girls, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed)
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 mu...
3 Sep 20201h 1min
#106 - The Last Love of the Chiswick Cat Ladies (Chiswick, London, W4)
On the morning of Friday 27th August 1971, in the basement flat at 15 Linden Gardens in Chiswick, W4; with her family life in tatters, her emotions frought and everything she had ever loved destroyed,...
27 Aug 20201h 5min
#105 - Meux and the Man-Made Tidal Wave (aka the London Beer Flood)
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...
20 Aug 20201h 13min
#104 - The 'Elementary' Murder of William Raven (Marylebone, London, W2)
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 ...
13 Aug 20201h 20min
#103 - The Beating of Baby Richard (Soho child killer)
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 wido...
6 Aug 20201h 14min
