TRIPLE NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025 and nominated for the Best True Crime Podcast at the British Podcast Awards. 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. Praised as one of the best London, British, English and UK True Crime podcasts, as well as 4th Best True-Crime Podcast by This Week, iTunes Top 25 Podcast, Podcast Magaz ...
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#298 - Schizophrenic: The Real/Fake Peter Bryan - Part One (Peter Andrew Bryan)
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1:06:52This is Part One of Five of Schizophrenic: The Real/Fake Peter Bryan. Peter Bryan is regarded as one of Britain's most infamous serial-killers and cannibals with almost every article and documentary about him slavering over the grisly details of his murders, and especially his cannibalism. But how much of this story is the truth, an exaggeration or…
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#297 - Simply Complicated (Donald & Jean Ramsey, Kentish Town, NW5)
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1:06:46On Sunday 8th of August 1948 at just after 10:30pm, Jean & Donald Ramsey, a young couple with two children met at this junction to discuss their collapsing marriage. It ended in murder. But how could something so simple be so complicated, as was this the story of a good man who was pushed to his limits by an unfaithful wife, or a good wife who was …
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#296 - An Afterglow of Hate (Styllou Christofi, Hella Belcher / Christofi, Hampstead, NW3)
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1:08:45On the night of Wednesday 28th of July 1954, 11 South Hill Park was the scene of one of London’s most shocking and brutal murders. It was so horrific, it caused an outrage in society, an uproar in the press and a debate in Parliament as how could anyone be so callous and cruel? It was a murder which devastated a family, yet, the killer would claim …
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#295 - The Good Mum (Nicole Hurley, Primrose Hill, NW8)
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1:00:17On Saturday 9th of October 2021, mother-of-four Nicole Hurley was brutally attacked in her bed; only the man who murdered her wasn’t a stranger who’d stalked her or a burglar who’d broken in, but the jealous and controlling boyfriend she’d loved, lay beside, and raised a family with for half of her life. That night, he took her life, orphaned her c…
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#294 - Sheer 'Bloody' Ignorance (‘Robyn’ Browne, Fitvrovia, UK)
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1:02:52On Friday 28th of February 1997 sometime after 7pm, at 6b Gosfield Street, a brutal and bloody attack on a lone sex-worker occurred in this first floor flat. Barely reported in the newspapers and ignored by television, the murder of ‘Robyn’ Browne is a case which was largely forgotten… yet the truth of what happened could be hidden among a scatteri…
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#293 - The Mercy Murderess (Valerie & Carmen Swann, Maida Vale)
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1:02:25On Friday the 7th of February 1936, 32-year-old Carmen Swann booked a twin room for one night in Clarendon Court at 33 Maida Vale, West London. Staying in Room 4 of Flat 20 on the third floor, she and her 8-year-old daughter unpacked their cases, popped on their nightdresses, ordered a pot of tea and got into bed beside the reassuring warmth of the…
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#292 - One of Life's Winners (Peter Wickins, Gordon Topen, UK)
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1:04:19Saturday 19th of December 1992 at 2:20pm, behind a wooden hut at White City bus depot off Caxton Road in Shepherd's Bush, the body of 32-year-old successful Peter Wickins was found, he was naked except for a pair of socks and had been stabbed 19 times. The Police assumed because he was a millionaire dressed in a tuxedo and that his Rolex watch was …
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#291 - The Scourge of Soho (Ernest Pink & Det Sgt Harold Challoner)
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1:02:31On Saturday 25th of May 1963 at 12:20am, four men were ejected from The Establishment Club on Greek Street in Soho. They left without a struggle, with no blood spilled, no damage done and nobody hurt. And yet, with accusations of corruption, violence and an attempted murder in its wake, it sparked a criminal trial and an inquiry which almost brough…
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#290 - A God called JACKIE (Aravindan Balakrishnan, Brixton, UK)
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1:02:31On Friday 25th of October 2013 at 11:15am, charity workers aided by the police coordinated the escape of several followers from a flat in Brixton. Some of the women had been held for 30+ years, one for her entire life, but they didn't see themselves as hostages, as having began living life in the commune under a political belief, they didn't realis…
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#289 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part Two (Thomas John Ley, Kensington, London)
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1:01:58This is Part Two of Two of The Chalk Pit Murder. On Thursday 28th of November 1946, Australian politician Thomas Ley enlisted four good people to help him trap a bad man who terrorised women. As a simple plan with no law broken and nobody hurt, it was a gentlemanly reaction to a dastardly crime by a criminal who they felt deserved worse. Only what …
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#288 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part One (John McMain Mudie, Kensington, UK)
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57:07This is Part One of Two of The Chalk Pit Murder. On Thursday 28th of November 1946, Australian politician Thomas Ley enlisted four good people to help him trap a bad man who terrorised women. As a simple plan with no law broken and nobody hurt, it was a gentlemanly reaction to a dastardly crime by a criminal who they felt deserved worse. Only what …
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#287 - The PIN Heads (Xyaire Howard / Chelsea Grant)
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1:05:01On Tuesday 6th of September 2022, 71-year-old Susan Hawkey was last seen entering her flat on Aylesbury Street in Neasden. Nobody saw her, nobody heard her, and – although vulnerable and afraid - no-one was looking out for her. And yet, the quiet isolation of her flat aided her brutal torture and murder by a pack of brainless thugs. Date: Tuesday 6…
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#286 - The Black Cap Farce (Edith McQuaid, Soho, UK)
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1:01:39On 1st January 1932, in the attic room of 27 Old Compton Street in Soho, 19-year-old domestic servant Edith McQuaid gave birth to a baby boy. Whether he died of natural causes, or she took his life by infanticide will never be known. But she wasn't alone. Edith was one of 1000s of women who concealed the pregnancy, the body of the dead babies or mu…
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#285 - The Suitcase of Death (Jemma Mitchell & Mee Kuen Chong)
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1:03:40On Friday 11th of June 2021 at 6:23am, 34-year-old Jemma Mitchell left her home at 9 Brondesbury Park in Wilsden to visit her friend and fellow Christian Mee Kuen Chong known as Deborah. She was wheeling behind her an empty blue suitcase, five hours later, the suitcase was full and her friend was dead. But why? Date: Monday 26th of April 1993 at 4:…
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#284 - Dead Man's Hand (Bayswater, London, UK)
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1:02:47Monday 31st of October 1960, at 5:30pm, the body of 53-year-old William Davies was found inside the top-floor flat of 5 Westbourne Park Road in Bayswater, London, W2. There was no sign of a break-in, no struggle and no obvious robbery. He was found on his knees, with a knife in his chest, and even though all the evidence pointed to this being a sui…
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#283 - The Vice Girl Killer - Part Three (Justin Martin Clarke, West End, London)
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1:09:32This is Part Three of Three of The Vice Girl Killer. On the weekend of the 24th and 25th of January 1987, two sex-workers vanished from two street (Sussex Gardens and Cleveland Terrace) near to Paddington Station. With their beaten, strangled and mutilated bodies found barely 24 hours apart in places where they didn't belong. The police quickly con…
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#282 - The Vice Girl Killer - Part Two (Racheal Applewhaite, London, UK)
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55:13This is Part Two of Three of The Vice Girl Killer. On the weekend of the 24th and 25th of January 1987, two sex-workers vanished from two street (Sussex Gardens and Cleveland Terrace) near to Paddington Station. With their beaten, strangled and mutilated bodies found barely 24 hours apart in places where they didn't belong. The police quickly confi…
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#281 - The Vice Girl Killer - Part One (Marina Monti, London, UK)
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1:04:01This is Part One of Three of The Vice Girl Killer. On the weekend of the 24th and 25th of January 1987, two sex-workers vanished from two street (Sussex Gardens and Cleveland Terrace) near to Paddington Station. With their beaten, strangled and mutilated bodies found barely 24 hours apart in places where they didn't belong. The police quickly confi…
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Ho-ho-ho muddy funsters. This isn't a regular episode, but a little bit of festive cheer from myself to say thank you for listening to and supporting Murder Mile over the year and beyond. Your regular episodes of Murder Mile will be back on Thursday 23rd January 2025. Until then, farewell. Mx Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile.…
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#280 - The Grey Man - Part Two (Chiswick, London, England)
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1:02:16This is Part Two of Two of The Grey Man. Across the morning of Tuesday 11th of November 1941, from 8:50am to 10:20am, an armed man dressed in grey went on a killing spree across Chiswick, Hammersmith and Acton armed with two shotguns. It seemed like he was picking off random people, but having spent months rehearsing and surveilling his targets, hi…
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#279 - The Grey Man - Part One (Chiswick, London, England)
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1:01:55This is Part One of Two of The Grey Man. Across the morning of Tuesday 11th of November 1941, from 8:50am to 10:20am, an armed man dressed in grey went on a killing spree across Chiswick, Hammersmith and Acton armed with two shotguns. It seemed like he was picking off random people, but having spent months rehearsing and surveilling his targets, hi…
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#278 - In the Ripper's Shadow (Soho, London, UK)
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1:01:26Across October and early November 1888, when 'Jack the Ripper' slayed several women in the East End of London, a smaller and largely forgotten sexual sadist was attacking women in Soho in the West End. Masked using a series of baffling distractions, his crimes were made possible owing to the fevered frenzy in the midst of a mini media mania committ…
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#277 - The Cuckoo (William Blaise, Barnes, London)
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59:56Sunday the 1st of December 2019 was the last time 53-year-old William Algar, a talented jazz trumpeter was seen alive. One month later, parts of his dismembered body were found in his flat at 7 Nowell Road in Barnes, having been the victim of cuckooing by a drugs gang. But who had murdered him? This is a story about a county lines gang who murdered…
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#276 - Killing for Victory (Greenford, London, Britain)
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58:39#276 - Killing for Victory In the evening of Tuesday 20th of May 1941, 28-year-old single-mother Phyllis Crocker and her 18-month-old daughter Eileen went to bed, as usual. Being 3 months pregnant, Phyllis drank a cup of cocoa to help her sleep, as made by her husband. But little did she know it would make her sleep for an eternity. Date: Tuesday 2…
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#275 - Stolen Womanhood (Fulham, London, England)
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54:50#275 - Stolen Womanhood. On Sunday 5th of November 1978, at a little after 5:30pm, two women stood at a bus stop on Sydney Place in Kensington, SW7, waiting for the rush hour bus. Having been close friends for decades, there seemed to be an odd friction between them, and although their issue was of a personal nature, within minutes, one would be a …
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#274 - Immoral Earnings (Baron's Court, London, UK)
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1:02:02#274 - Immoral Earnings. 1st August 1970, 20-year-old Mary McCormack of Limerick was found strangled in her ground floor flat at 85 Talgarth Road in Baron’s Court, W14. With no signs of a break-in, the police suspected it was either a client who she let in, or a tenant with a key. But did the Police convict the right man? Date: 1st August 1970 (rou…
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#273 - A 'Bad' Man (Shepherd's Bush, London, UK)
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1:02:46#273 - A 'Bad' Man. On Tuesday 11th August 1936, at roughly noon, in the basement flat of 7 Roseford Gardens in Shepherd’s Bush, 66-year-old widow Elizabeth Fortescue was smothered to death, as her attacker ransacked her flat. Given the violence used against her, the Police suspected “she had died at the hands of a violent man”. But how true was th…
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#272 - Red Mist On Sunday 31st July 1949, just before midnight, Michael Martin unleashed a violent attack on a defenceless 53-year-old prostitute known locally as ‘Mona’. To the press, it seemed like an all-too-familiar story of a destitute woman who was brutally murdered by a horny drunken punter, but with time and infirmity catching up with all o…
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#271 - Vicious Circles (Lisson Grove, London, England)
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1:03:58#271 - Vicious Circles On Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th of August 2021, having recently been released from prison, Lee Peacock brutally murdered his ex-partner Sharon Pickles and her partner Clinton Ashmore. But was this due to jealousy, or a drug-induced paranoia, or jealousy, being stuck inside their own ‘vicious circles’. Date #1 (Sharon's mu…
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#270 - The 'Taxi Driver' Murders - Part Two (Lambeth, London, UK)
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59:48This is Part Two of Two of The 'Taxi Driver' Murders. On Thursday 18th of October 1945, the bloodied body of veteran taxi-driver Frank Everitt was found wedged on the bridge in a hole at the pump house on Lambeth Bridge, which he could hardly fit into. At first, it seemed like he was either stuck or sleeping, but was this just a crude attempt to co…
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#269 - The 'Taxi Driver' Murders - Part One (Lambeth, London, UK)
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55:26This is Part One of Two of The 'Taxi Driver' Murders. On Thursday 18th of October 1945, the bloodied body of veteran taxi-driver Frank Everitt was found wedged on the bridge in a hole at the pump house on Lambeth Bridge, which he could hardly fit into. At first, it seemed like he was either stuck or sleeping, but was this just a crude attempt to co…
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#268 - The Savaged 'Prince' (Shepherd's Bush, London, UK)
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1:05:07#268 - The Savaged 'Prince'. On the evening of Monday 18th of September 1989, 40-year-old Christoph Schliack, an eccentric German who many only knew as 'The Prince' left the White Horse pub with two men. 30 minutes later, he would be brutally stabbed to death. But why? Was it political, personal, was it a robbery, or was it a known homosexual? Date…
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#267 - Sadistic Cruelty (Shakira Spencer, Ealing)
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1:00:35#267 - Sadistic Cruelty. Shakira Spencer was a loving mother-of-two, who lived to be loved and gave it back in spades. But when her “best friend” became her worst enemy, her life no longer became her own, she was reduced to being little more than a slave, and across the weekend Friday 9th to Monday 12th of September 2022 – out of boredom or spite -…
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#266 - The Fearmonger - Part Two (John Steed, London, UK)
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1:04:33This is Part Two of Two of The Fearmonger. On Monday 4th of November 1985, a three-week spree of rape and murder culminated, as at 9:50pm, a silvery-blue Montego sped north up Park Lane towards Marble Arch, zigzagging like a crazed loon across both lanes at a suicidal 80mph. Inside, two terrified women screamed, as John Steed, the M4 Rapist shot on…
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#265 - The Fearmonger - Part One (London, England, UK)
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1:05:40This is Part One of Two of The Fearmonger. On Monday 4th of November 1985, a three-week spree of rape and murder culminated, as at 9:50pm, a silvery-blue Montego sped north up Park Lane towards Marble Arch, zigzagging like a crazed loon across both lanes at a suicidal 80mph. Inside, two terrified women screamed, as John Steed, the M4 Rapist shot on…
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#264 - 'Shock Tactics' (Euston, London, England)
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1:00:26#264 - 'Shock Tactics' On Monday 24th of October 1966, Dr Abdullah a noted psychiatrist walked into a clip joint in Soho and shot a hostess (Rita Rothery) in the chest from 3 feet away. Four days later, on Friday 28th of October 1966, he shot art Student Diane Spencer in broad daylight outside of Euston Station. Neither of them he had met before. S…
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#263 - Sweethearts (Southwark, London, UK)
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1:06:38#263 - Sweethearts On the night of Saturday 4th to Sunday 5th February 1984, in the workshop of Courier Display Systems on Union Street in Southwark, teenage lovers (Robert Ian Vaughan & Michelle Anne Sadler) were brutally murdered by their work colleague David Carty. But why? Date: Sunday 5th February 1984, at 1am (estimated) Location: Courier Dis…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 28 (the Final Part) of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 27 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 26 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 25 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 24 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 23 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 22 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 1 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Arm…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 20 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 19 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 18 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 17 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing. This is Part 16 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks. It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Ar…
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