#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
#13 - Margaret Cook and the Long Confession (Soho, London, W1)
On 10th November 1946, a 26 year old club singer and prostitute Margaret Cook was brutally gunned down outside the Soho nightclub known as the Blue Lagoon, and although the murder remains unsolved, he...
4 Jan 201835min
#12 - Dennis Nilsen and the Sleeping Bag of Death Part Two (Serial Killer, Soho, W1)
The CONCLUDING PART of Dennis Nilsen and the Sleeping Bag of Death. On 23rd November 1981, 19 year old student Paul Nobbs met a man in The Golden Lion public house on Dean Street; here they drank, lau...
28 Dec 201733min
#11 - Dennis Nilsen and the Sleeping Bag of Death Part One (Serial Killer, Soho, W1)
On 23rd November 1981, 19 year old student Paul Nobbs met a man in The Golden Lion public house on Dean Street; here they drank, laughed and headed back to his place for more drink, a bite to eat, som...
21 Dec 201734min
#10 - Alfredo Zomparelli and the Golden Goose (Soho, London, W1)
On 4th September 1974, Soho gangster Alfredo Zomparelli was shot to death as he played on a pinball machine in the Golden Goose amusement arcade on Old Compton Street, by two hitmen in what was suppos...
14 Dec 201730min
