Murder Mile UK True Crime
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SEVEN TIME AWARD NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards as Best True Crime Podcast. Murder Mile UK True Crime is a unique London-based true-crime podcast, focused on Soho, the West End and West London, presented as a guided walk of 300+ untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murder cases.If you’re looking for intensely researched and in-depth multipart series, Murder Mile has covered spree killer Gordon Cummings aka 'The Blackout Ripper', John George Haigh 'The Acid Bath Murderer', John Reginald Christie of '10 Rillington Place', Anthony Hardy 'The Camden Ripper', Dennis Nilsen 'The Muswell HI...
Episodes(40 episodes)
#365 - The Foul Stench of Garlick (Carol Ann White, West Drayton)
Thursday the 11th of October 1962 at 4:20pm, off Cherry Lane, in Sipson’s Field in West Drayton, the body of 16 year old Carol Ann White was found; she had been brutally stabbed, but not sexually assaulted. Police believed it was connected to a string of other sex attacks in the area. But the true culprit wasn’t hiding in plain sight, but standing by their side.Location: Sipson’s Field, off Cherry Lane, West Drayton, MIddlesexDate: Wednesday 10th October 1962, roughly 9:30pm (murder)Victims: Carol Ann WhiteCulprit: Edward Donald GarlickSeven time nominat...
Published: Sep 10, 2026Duration: 1h 1m 54s
#364 - Soft Targets (Lichfield, Private William Robert Davies)
Friday 1st of June 1990, at 5:52pm, three off-duty Army recruits were shot at Lichfield City train station by two members of the Provisional IRA; Privates Robert Parkin & Neil Evans were injured, but being shot twice in the head in an execution style killing, Private William Robert Davies died.But who were his killers, and why were they never tried and convicted?Location: Lichfield City train station, Lichfield, StaffordshireDate: Friday 1st of June 1990, at 5:52pm (murder)Victims: Privates Robert Parkin, Neil Evans & William Robert DaviesCulprit: Nessan Quinlivan & Pearse McAuleySeven t...
Published: Sep 3, 2026Duration: 1h 7m 0s
#363 - The Beast of Bedsitland - Part 2 of 2 (Ronald Evans, Clifton, Bristol)
This is Part Two of Two of The Beast of Bedsitland.As one of Britain’s longest serving prisoners, Ronald Evans has been incarcerated for more than 55 years for GBH, ABH, rape and murder, and has never expressed any true remorse for his victims. Aged 22, he murdered Kathleen Heathcote in Mansfield, across the late 1970s he terrorised the city of Bristol being known as ‘The Clifton Rapist’ and even in his 80s, he committed a sexual assault. So why wasn’t he rehabilitated?Location:Brickyard Tip, off Princes Street, Mansfield, DerbyshireDate: Thursday 21st of November 1963 at 11pm...
Published: Aug 27, 2026Duration: 1h 3m 0s
#362 - The Beast of Bedsitland - Part 1 of 2 (Ronald Evans, Kathleen Heathcote)
This is Part One of Two of The Beast of Bedsitland.As one of Britain’s longest serving prisoners, Ronald Evans has been incarcerated for more than 55 years for GBH, ABH, rape and murder, and has never expressed any true remorse for his victims. Aged 22, he murdered Kathleen Heathcote in Mansfield, across the late 1970s he terrorised the city of Bristol being known as ‘The Clifton Rapist’ and even in his 80s, he committed a sexual assault. So why wasn’t he rehabilitated?Location:Brickyard Tip, off Princes Street, Mansfield, DerbyshireDate: Thursday 21st of November 1963 at 11pm...
Published: Aug 20, 2026Duration: 1h 3m 6s
#361 - The Vanishing of Wendy Upton (Lichfield, Steven Salisbury)
Wednesday the 7th of October 1998, 40-year-old Wendy Upton of Lichfield went to her local Tesco’s to buy the basics, and vanished without a trace. For nine months, there was no trace of her; no sightings, no calls and her bank account wasn’t touched, her husband believed she had been murdered, but the Police held firm to their belief that she was missing, had fled, or had overdosed.But what was the truth, and how did her killer subvert the investigation to his own need?Seven time nominated at the True Crime Awar...
Published: Aug 13, 2026Duration: 1h 5m 40s
#360 - Who 'Rolled' Tommy Walker? (Polesworth, Martin O'Halloran & Albert Langford)
Thursday the 5th of June 1975, hairdresser William ‘Tommy’ Walker headed into Birmingham to buy supplies, he went to a few bars, and the nest day, his body was found 6 miles from his home, in a lover’s lane having been beaten to death and robbed. The police convicted two men of his murder, but how safe was this conviction? Location: bridleway, off B4116 Coleshill Road, Bentley, Warwickshire Date: Thursday the 5th of June 1975 between 11 and 12pm (murder)Victims: William ‘Tommy’ WalkerCulprit: Martin O’Halloran & Albert LangfordSeven time nominated at the True Crime Awards, Independent Po...
Published: Aug 6, 2026Duration: 58m 51s
#359 - Buried Under Lies (Dhirajlal & Lalitaben Ladva, Rugby)
Sunday 9th of October 1983, at around noon, roughly 75 yards north of the Coventry Canal, homeless man, George Cunningham was shuffling up the Old Leicester Road, when he discovered the body of 30-year-old wife and mother-of-three Lalitaben Ladva of Rugby. She had been strangled, beaten with a hammer, and her body dumped. It seemed like a motiveless crime, but a series of lies and deceptions by her killer would unearth the selfish reason for her murder.Location: Old Leicester Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, Date: Tuesday 8th of October 1983 between 11 and 12pm (murder)Victims: Lalitaben LadvaCulprit: Dhirajlal Ladva<p...
Published: Jul 30, 2026Duration: 1h 2m 59s
#358 - Evil Little Droog - Part 2 of 2 (Peter Foster & Linda Wardill, Bridlington)
This is Part 2 of 2 of Evil Little Droog.From 1976 to 2003, Peter Allan Foster of Bridlington committed a string of vicious and brutal attacks on his girlfriends and wives, including holding them hostage, kidnapping them at knifepoint, strangling, beating, shooting, coercion, and two counts of murder. But how did he evade justice for so long, and what has any of this got to do with his obsession – the 1973 film, A Clockwork Orange.Locations: various across Bridlington, East Riding, YorkshireDates: 1976 to 2003Victims: Linda Grimm nee Peacock, Linda Wardill, Lindy Foster nee Derham, Margaret Foster nee...
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 1h 5m 4s
#357 - Evil Little Droog - Part 1 of 2 (Peter Foster & Linda Grimm, Bridlington)
This is Part 1 of 2 of Evil Little Droog.From 1976 to 2003, Peter Allan Foster of Bridlington committed a string of vicious and brutal attacks on his girlfriends and wives, including holding them hostage, kidnapping them at knifepoint, strangling, beating, shooting, coercion, and two counts of murder. But how did he evade justice for so long, and what has any of this got to do with his obsession – the 1973 film, A Clockwork Orange.Locations: various across Bridlington, East Riding, YorkshireDates: 1976 to 2003Victims: Linda Grimm nee Peacock, Linda Wardill, Lindy Foster nee Derham, Margaret Fos...
Published: Jul 16, 2026Duration: 1h 2m 7s
#356 - A Clockwork Orange Killer (David McManus & Richard Palmer, Fenny Stratford)
Wednesday 4th of April 1973 at 11pm, on the porch of St Martin’s Church in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire, 60-year-old homeless man, David McManus was beaten to death in an attack identical to a fictional killing in the book ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess and the controversial film by director Stanley Kubrick. But who was to blame, the book, the film or the killer?Location: St Martin’s Church, Watling/Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford, BuckinghamshireDate: Wednesday 4th of April 1973 at 11pm-ishVictims: David McManusCulprit: Richard John PalmerSeven time nominated at the True...
Published: Jul 9, 2026Duration: 1h 4m 42s
#355 - The UK's Penultimate School Shooting (Higham Ferrers, Northants)
On Wednesday 8th of January 1988, at 3:25pm, expelled pupil 16-year-old Darren Fowler entered the Ferrers School in the town of Higham Ferrers with two knives, 25 cartridges and a shotgun. He had written a suicide note, and planned to get revenge on those who had wronged him. By 3:37pm, it was over. But unlike the Dunblane massacre, it is largely forgotten, and why, like the Dormers Wells school shooting did it not lead for stricter gun control? This was the UK’s penultimate school shooting.Location: Ferrers School, Queensway, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, Date: Wednesday 8th of Janu...
Published: Jul 2, 2026Duration: 1h 6m 36s
#354 - The Strangler's Excuse (Matthew Kavanagh & Isaiah Dixon, Rugby)
Saturday the 12th of April 1958, two men – 60-year-old Isaiah Dixon and 32-year-old Matthew Kavanagh – returned to their boarding house at 11 Hillmorton Road in Rugby. Kavanagh strangled Dixon with his own tie, stole 34 10s from his pockets, went shopping, and confessed to his murder. But then in court, he denied murder, and used an alibi which had got many 1950s killers off a murder charge.Location: Ground floor bedsit, 11 Hillmorton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, Date: Saturday the 12th of April 1958, evening, Victims: Isaiah Dixon (and Evelyn Ullah)Culprit: Matthew KavanaghSeven time nominated at th...
Published: Jun 25, 2026Duration: 1h 2m 24s
#353 - The 9.02 Killer (Janet Maddocks & Jack Roy Jnr)
Wednesday 20th of March 1985, the 9:02pm slow train from London Euston to Birmingham New Street pulls out of Coventry Station, having passed through Northampton, Long Buckby and Rugby. It was silent, empty, and as the lone passenger slides open the door, in an off-side compartment, he saw blood up the windows and its seats saturated in a dark goo, as running twelve feet from the seat to a door stained with red sticky prints, a ‘river’ of blood ran along the aisle.A woman had been brutally murdered, and her body was missing, But how...
Published: Jun 18, 2026Duration: 59m 4s
#352 - Living with 'Cancer' (Laureline Garcia-Bertaux & Kirill Belorusov)
Back in 2019, the ground floor flat at 4 Darell Road in Kew was home to 34-year-old Laureline Garcia-Bertaux, a busy singleton working in the media who had big plans of being a creative success, and was striving to make it happen.She had a good job, a busy social life, she was liked, and she was popular. By the March, she was about to begin (what she believed or maybe hoped) was a fresh start by moving to a new flat. Yet, something was eating away at her, a sickness that pervaded her life, and a terminal...
Published: Jun 11, 2026Duration: 1h 1m 31s
#351 - The Ghost of 'Veronique' (Soho, 1940-42)
In the spring of 1942, a young French girl known only as ‘Veronique’ vanished from the streets of Soho. No-one knew her real name, where she came from, or how she had got there, but she had lived and worked as a prostitute for almost two years, and then having tried to escape, she vanished. Her disappearance is as much of a mystery as her life, or identity.Unlike others episodes of Murder Mile, this was compiled over a decade from the reminiscences of those who knew her or knew of her, therefore not everything should be take...
Published: Jun 4, 2026Duration: 1h 0m 49s
Behind the Scenes Chat - Undressing Jack the Stripper with Murder Mile and True Crime Enthusiast
This is a chat between myself, Mike at Murder Mile and Paul at The True Crime Enthusiast as we dive deeper into our eight part series called 'Undressing Jack the Stripper'. If you haven't listened to it already, please do, otherwise this won;t make any sense at all. Search 'Undressing Jack the Stripper'. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published: Jun 4, 2026Duration: 1h 25m 21s
#350 - Undressing Jack the Stripper - Part D of D (Hammersmith Nudes; Margaret McGowan & Bridget O'Hara)
This is Part D of D of Undressing Jack the Stripper, an eight part series made in conjunction with the True Crime Enthusiast podcast.From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, the bodies of eight sex-workers (Elizabeth Figg, Gwynneth Rees, Hannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helen Barthelemy, Mary Fleming, Margaret McGowan and Bridget O’Hara) were found dumped in or near the River Thames in West London.Panic spread that a sadistic serial killer was on the loose who targeted young petite brunettes; stripped and strangled them, dumped each body within weeks and st...
Published: May 28, 2026Duration: 1h 4m 10s
#349 - Undressing Jack the Stripper - Part C of D (Hammersmith Nudes; Helen Barthelemy & Mary Fleming)
This is Part C of D of Undressing Jack the Stripper, an eight part series made in conjunction with the True Crime Enthusiast podcast.From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, the bodies of eight sex-workers (Elizabeth Figg, Gwynneth Rees, Hannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helen Barthelemy, Mary Fleming, Margaret McGowan and Bridget O’Hara) were found dumped in or near the River Thames in West London. Panic spread that a sadistic serial killer was on the loose who targeted young petite brunettes; stripped and strangled them, dumped each body within weeks and streets of each ot...
Published: May 21, 2026Duration: 1h 1m 50s
#348 - Undressing Jack the Stripper - Part B of D (Hammersmith Nudes; Hannah Tailford & Irene Lockwood)
This is Part B of D of Undressing Jack the Stripper, an eight part series made in conjunction with the True Crime Enthusiast podcast.From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, the bodies of eight sex-workers (Elizabeth Figg, Gwynneth Rees, Hannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helen Barthelemy, Mary Fleming, Margaret McGowan and Bridget O’Hara) were found dumped in or near the River Thames in West London.Panic spread that a sadistic serial killer was on the loose who targeted young petite brunettes; stripped and strangled them, dumped each body within weeks and st...
Published: May 14, 2026Duration: 1h 1m 29s
#347 - Undressing Jack the Stripper - Part A of D (Hammersmith Nudes; Elizabeth Figg & Gwynneth Rees)
This is Part A of D of Undressing Jack the Stripper, an eight part series made in conjunction with the True Crime Enthusiast podcast.From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, the bodies of eight sex-workers (Elizabeth Figg, Gwynneth Rees, Hannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helen Barthelemy, Mary Fleming, Margaret McGowan and Bridget O’Hara) were found dumped in or near the River Thames in West London.Panic spread that a sadistic serial killer was on the loose who targeted young petite brunettes; stripped and strangled them, dumped each body within weeks and st...
Published: May 7, 2026Duration: 1h 2m 23s