Murder Mile UK True Crime
by Always True Crime
EIGHT 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 HIll Killer', The Thames Towpath Murderer, Daniel Gonzales 'The Freddy Krueger killer', The Soho Strangler regarded as the second Jack the Ripper, Michael Jamieson The Shoe Box Killer, M4 r*pist John Steed, London cannibal Peter Bryan, and ‘the Devil’s Disciple’ Patrick MacKay, and coming soon, the Hammersmith Nudes alias ‘Jack t
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#373 - The 'Pretty Windows' Murder (George Wilson, The Fox & Grapes, Nottingham)
On Sunday 8th of September 1963, just after midnight, well-liked and popular married father of two George Wilson had closed up his pub, The Fox and Grapes in Sneinton, Nottingham, when he was stabbed to death outside of his pub. 63 years on, it remains unsolved to this day, but why? In this...
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#372 - A Fox in the Hen House (Laurence Bierton, Nottingham)
On Sunday the 25th of June 1995, chronic alcoholic Lawrence Bierton of Nottingham brutally and sadistically murdered two elderly ladies in their own home. Being released after a life sentence and seeking a safe place to house him, the council put him in the one place they shouldn’t have - a...
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#371 - Rock, Paper, Scissors, Death (Adam Morrell, Loughborough, 2002)
On the 14th of November 2002. 14-year-old Adam Morrell of Loughborough in Leicestershire told his dad he was going to stay at his friends’ house, something that boys do every day in every city. But with the group growing bored, it said, that his death was decided by a childish game of Rock…
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#370 - The Biggest Gamble (Mabel Tattershaw & Herbert Mills, Nottingham)
On Friday the 3rd of August 1951, 49-year-old housewife, Mabel Tattershaw went out on a date with 19-year-old Herbert Mills. She was smitten with him, but as a chronic gambler who was obsessed with making an easy fortune, smashing the authorities and beating the odds, she had no idea that she…
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#369 - Cracks in the Concrete (Anna Podedworna & Izabela Zablocka, Derby)
On Saturday the 28th of August 2010, 30-year-old Izabela Zablocka telephoned her mother and 9-year-old daughter, Kasia, as she did every few days without fail. That day, she vanished without a trace and would never be seen or heard from again. And although her killer thought they had got away…
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Rough Diamond - a new true crime series by Always True Crime
This is episode one of Rough Diamond, the new investigative series from Always True Crime. It starts in the 1960s when London was in the grips of a crime spree…rare diamonds are being stolen. The latest is the Colenso diamond. It’s the world’s largest uncut diamond and one of the Natural History...
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#368 - The Off Grid Killer (Colin Porter, Sylwester Krajewski, Aylesbury)
On Monday the 26th of April 2021 at 12:15pm, 63-year-old retired Police Constable, Clive Porter approached Lock 14 at Broughton on the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal. As a License Enforcement Officer, he placed a notice on an unlicensed boat... and then was brutally murdered by NOT the...
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#367 - The Serial Killer Handbook (Ian Halls & Michael Harvey)
From Saturday 20th of March 2004 to Friday 15th of May 2004, in numerous lakes and rivers, across several countries, the head, hands, thighs, lower legs and feet, but not the arms, torso and pelvis of 63 year-old Ian Halls was found. He wasn't a criminal and hadn't double crossed anyone, so why…
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#366 - Dole Money (Tring, 1988)
Sunday the 7th of February 1988 was a typical day for Samantha, Colin and their family, residents of Kingsley Way in Tring, Hertfordshire. They went to church, they had dinner, they went to bed, and by the morning, Colin had brutally murdered his wife, cut up her body and hid it in the freezer…
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#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…
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#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.…
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#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…
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#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…
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#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…
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#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…
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#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...
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#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...
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#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...
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#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...
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#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...
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#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...
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#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…
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#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...
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#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...
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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...
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#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...
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#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...
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#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...
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#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...
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#346 - Vitriol: The London Acid Attacks
On Monday the 24th of September 2018, an unnamed couple parked-up outside of Princethorpe House in Woodchester Square in Paddington, W2. The man was kidnapped, driven across London, and then in an unspecified bathroom on Fulham Palace Road, he was tortured using acid. But how did acid become the...
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#345 - Tormented (Hanna & Aziza Bennis, Acton)
Monday the 15th of August 2022 at 3pm, Flat 72 on the first floor of Clariat Court was the home of Aziza Bennis, a 58-year-old school dinner lady and a mother-of-two, where she had raised her daughters as a single parent. To their neighbours, she was liked, as were her family. But on the…
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#344 - The Blabbermouth - Part 2 of 2 (David McKenzie, Hilda Murrell & Andrew George)
THIS IS PART TWO OF TWO. On Wednesday 21st of March 1984, 79-year-old Hilda Murrell of Shropshire was attacked in her own home by an unseen assailant. Double killer, David McKenzie had already been convicted of the murders of 76-year-old widow Barbara Pinder in 1984 in Battersea and 86-year-old...
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#343 - The Blabbermouth - Part 1 of 2 (David McKenzie, Barbara Pinder, Henrietta Osbourne)
This is Part One of Two. On the Saturday the 27th of October 1984, 76-year-old widow Barbara Pinder was brutally murdered in her own flat on Prince of Wales Drive in Battersea by an unknown man with a lot of hatred for her. One year later, on Saturday 27th of October 1985, 86-year-old widow...
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#342 - The S-Hitmen (The Marriott, Marble Arch, W2)
On Sunday 28th of March 2004 at 8.20pm, Police were called to either Room 701 or 703 at The Marriott Hotel at 134 George Street near Marble Arch, London, W1. Concerned for the guest, he was found naked, in the bath, in what looked like it could have been an accident or a suicide. It had all the...
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#341 - London's Forgotten 'Gay Slayer' (W2, SW6, SW1 and SW10)
From the 31st of January 1980 to the 1st of August 1983, on neighbouring streets across the London postcodes of W2, SW6, with two in SW1 and two in SW10, six gay men were murdered - Henry Carr, Dr Richard Mercy, Carlos Mery-Squella, Anthony Bird, Harry Williams and Peter Arne. They were linked by...
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#340 - The Real 'H' (Line of Duty, Operation Countryman)
BBC TV drama series ‘Line of Duty’, a police procedural follows the exploits of AC12 (Anti-Corruption Unit 12), based on the Metropolitan Police’s A10, established in 1971 to root out corruption within the force. In the upcoming seventh series they will unravel the conundrum of who is ‘H’, the...
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#339 - Headless (Kilburn, London)
Wednesday the 6th of February 2008, the body of Lakhdar Ouyahia was found by the bins on Kingsgate Place in KIlburn, wrapped in a duvet. Someone had attempted to cut off his limbs and had decapitated his head. But who had killed this good and decent man, why had his neighbour vanished, and why…
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#338 - Death by Gilbert & George (Kye Soo Kim, Hyun-Han Jin & In-Hea Song)
From the end of October to the start of December 2001, an unspecified two-roomed second-floor flat on Eagle Street in Holborn was a warm and welcoming guesthouse rented out to two Korean students exploring London. As strangers in a notoriously dangerous city, they did everything right to ensure...
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#337 - "Everything is Broken" (William & Eliza Smith, St Giles, WC2)
On the 8th or 9th of December 1913, William & Eliza, now in their late 60s or early 70s were curled up in front of the fire in their small lodging on New Compton Street in St Giles in Holborn, London. Their life had been an unbearable tragedy which had tested every ounce of their love and…
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#336 - Strange Last Days (Karoline Getta Jones, Kilburn, NW6)
Wednesday 10th of April 1940 at 10.15am, Alfred Scott, a surveyor for Bates & Co, an estate agents in Kilburn entered 21 Brondesbury Villas, to check that the premises was empty. Inside, he found that the first floor flat had been ransacked, two bags (a Gladstone and an attache case) had been...
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#335 - Paizan: The Jigsaw Killer (Agnes Akom & Neculai Paizan, Park Royal & Neasden)
On Sunday 9th of May 2021 at 11:47am, 20-year-old Agnes Akom entered a shipping container on Everett Road in Powergate Business Park with 64-year-old Neculai Paizan, a cement mixer driver she had known for 18 months. CCTV cameras caught her walking in. but she never came out. So where did her…
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#334 - The Beast of Belvedere - Part Two of Two (Allan Pearey)
This is Part Two of Two of ‘The Beast of Belvedere’ by Murder Mile UK True Crime. From April 1983 to July 1984, a series of sadistic sex attacks were perpetrated on women and young girls on trains or near train stations on three routes from Central London to the South-East of England and Kent…
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#333 - The Beast of Belvedere - Part One of Two
This is Part One of Two of ‘The Beast of Belvedere’ by Murder Mile UK True Crime. From April 1983 to July 1984, a series of sadistic sex attacks were perpetrated on women and young girls on trains or near train stations on three routes from Central London to the South-East of England and Kent…
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#332 - The Ealing Crossbow Killer (Diana Maw, Jane Salveson, London, W5)
On Wednesday the 20th of July 1988, at 8am, 36-year-old business executive Diana Mam exited her flat at Stanley Court. Dressed in a smart green suit and stockings, she placed her handbag and briefcase on the floor, and as she locked the door, she applied a final coat of lipstick, ready for a busy...
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#331 - The Kindness of Strangers (Victoria Adams, Wynton Apapale Adoum, Shepherd’s Bush, W6)
On Friday 7th of February 2025, single mother of four children, Victoria Adams invited homeless ex-con Apapale Adoum arrived to stay at her home at 2 Coulter Road in Shepherd’s Bush. The next day, he brutally murdered her. But what were both of their motives? Location: top flat, 22 Coulter Road,...
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#330 - The Slain Stylist (Andre Mizelas, Hyde Park, W2)
On Monday 9th of November 1970 at 8:42am, the TR5 sports car of celebrity hairstylist Andre Mizelas pulled up on South Carriage Drive in Hyde Park, London. It was daylight, rush hour and he was surrounded by cars, cyclists and pedestrians. 40 minutes his body was found in the dr4iver’s seat with...
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COMING SOON: the new series of Murder Mile
Murder Mile returns to your ears on Thursday 8th January, for more details listen to this short trailer, and for extra goodies, subscribe via Patreon. Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA · Instagram · FaceBook · Threads SUBSCRIBE via Patreon
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Murder Mile Christmas Special 2025
This is the Murder Mile Christmas Special, written as a thank you to all of our loyal listeners. If you're new to the show, you probably won't get it. Listen to all the old episodes, and then you will. Enjoy and Merry Christmas. Mx
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BONUS CHAT with Murder Mile & True Crime Enthusiast - Patrick Mackay
This is a special one-off recording between myself, Mike at Murder Mile and Paul at True Crime Enthusiast about Patrick MacKay: Two Sides of a Psychopath. If you haven;t listened to our 10-part series yet, please do, as this contains lots of spoilers.Enjoy. Mx
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#329 - Patrick MacKay: Two Sides of a Psychopath - Part F (Ivy Lillian Davies)
This is Part F of F of Patrick MacKay: Two Sides of a Psychopath, about the killing of Ivy Davies. On the night of Sunday 3rd of February 1975, between 10:30pm and midnight, 48-year-old café owners and single parent of seven children Ivy Davies was brutally beaten to death in her own home by an...
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EIGHT 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 HIll Killer', The Thames Towpath Murderer, Daniel Gonzales 'The Freddy Krueger killer', The Soho Strangler regarded as the second Jack the Ripper, Michael Jamieson The Shoe Box Killer, M4 r*pist John Steed, London cannibal Peter Bryan, and ‘the Devil’s Disciple’ Patrick MacKay, and coming soon, the Hammersmith Nudes alias ‘Jack t
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