On 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 realise it had become a cult, under the control of their leader 'Comrade Bala' and a God-machine called JACKIE. <ul><li>Date: Friday 25th of October 2013 at 11:15am (their release)</li><li>Commune 1: 60 Shakespeare Road, Herne Hill, London, SE24</li><li>Commune 2: 1C Peckford Place, Brixton, London, SW9,</li><li>Bookshop: Mao Zedong Memorial Centre, 140 Acre Lane, Brixton, SW2</li><li>Victim: several (including Katy Morgan-Davies, Sian Davies, Josephine Herivel, Aishah Abdul Wahab, Oh Kar Eng )</li><li>Culprits: 1 (Aravindan Balakrishnan, aka Comrade Bala, or AB)</li></ul> Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of <a href="https://www.cultwithnoname.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cult With No Name</a> and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/category/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> and a <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/legal-disclaimer.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal disclaimer</a>. For links <a href="https://linktr.ee/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a> To subscribe via Patreon, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>

#290 - A God called JACKIE (Aravindan Balakrishnan, Brixton, UK)

This is Part Two of Two of The Chalk Pit Murder.&nbsp;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 began as a good deed by four decent and moral people, soon descended into deceit and death.&nbsp;<ul><li>Date: Thursday 28th of November 1946 at 7:00pm+ (murder of John Mudie)</li><li>Location: 5 Beaufort Gardens, Knightsbride, London, SW3 (Ley's house, with entrance being on Brompton Place)</li><li>Victim: 1 (John McMain Mudie, known as Jack)</li><li>Culprits: 5 (Thomas John Ley &amp; Lawrence John Smith, plus co-conspirators John William Buckingham Snr, Lilian Florence Bruce &amp; John Buckingham Jnr)</li></ul>&nbsp;Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of <a href="https://www.cultwithnoname.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cult With No Name</a> and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/category/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> and a <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/legal-disclaimer.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal disclaimer</a>. For links <a href="https://linktr.ee/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a> To subscribe via Patreon, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>

#289 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part Two (Thomas John Ley, Kensington, London)

This 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 began as a good deed by four decent and moral people, soon descended into deceit and death. <ul><li>Date: Thursday 28th of November 1946 at 7:00pm+ (murder of John Mudie)</li><li>Location: 5 Beaufort Gardens, Knightsbride, London, SW3 (Ley's house, with entrance being on Brompton Place)</li><li>Victim: 1 (John McMain Mudie, known as Jack)</li><li>Culprits: 5 (Thomas John Ley &amp; Lawrence John Smith, plus co-conspirators John William Buckingham Snr, Lilian Florence Bruce &amp; John Buckingham Jnr)</li></ul> Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of <a href="https://www.cultwithnoname.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cult With No Name</a> and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/category/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> and a <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/legal-disclaimer.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal disclaimer</a>. For links <a href="https://linktr.ee/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a> To subscribe via Patreon, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>

#288 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part One (John McMain Mudie, Kensington, UK)

On 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. <ul><li>Date: Tuesday 6th of September 2022 (mid afternoon, last seen alive)</li><li>Location: ground floor flat, 65a Aylesbury Street, Neasden, London, UK, NW10</li><li>Victim: 1 (Susan Anne Hawkey)</li><li>Culprits: 2 (Xyaire Howard &amp; Chelsea Grant)﻿</li><li>Method: torture</li></ul> Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of <a href="https://www.cultwithnoname.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cult With No Name</a> and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/category/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> and a <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/legal-disclaimer.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal disclaimer</a>. For links <a href="https://linktr.ee/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a> To subscribe via Patreon, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>

#287 - The PIN Heads (Xyaire Howard / Chelsea Grant)

Infanticide / Neonaticide

On 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 murdered them at birth across the United Kingdom, and yet, it wasn't there fault, as this national scandal had been raging for centuries. <ul><li>Date: 1st of January 1932 (birth and death of her baby)</li><li>Location: attic, 27 Old Compton Street, Soho, London, UK, W1</li><li>Victim: 1 (name unknown)</li><li>Culprits: 1 (Edith McQuaid)</li><li>Method: infanticide / neonaticide</li></ul> Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British / English true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of <a href="https://www.cultwithnoname.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cult With No Name</a> and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/category/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> and a <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/legal-disclaimer.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal disclaimer</a>. For links <a href="https://linktr.ee/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a> To subscribe via Patreon, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>

#286 - The Black Cap Farce (Edith McQuaid, Soho, UK)

Wilsden, Salcombe, UK

On 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? <ul><li>Date: Monday 26th of April 1993 at 4:20pm (murder of Paul Milburn)</li><li>Location #1: 9 Brondesbury Park, Wilsden, NW6 (Jemma's house)</li><li>Location #2: 196 Chaplin Road, Wembley, HA0 (Deborah's house)</li><li>Victim: 1 (Mee Kuen Chong, known as Deborah)</li><li>Culprits: 1 (Jemma Mitchell)</li></ul> Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of <a href="https://www.cultwithnoname.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cult With No Name</a> and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/category/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> and a <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/legal-disclaimer.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal disclaimer</a>. For links <a href="https://linktr.ee/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a> To subscribe via Patreon, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>

#285 - The Suitcase of Death (Jemma Mitchell & Mee Kuen Chong)

Istavan Szabo & William Davies

Monday 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 suicide, the police knew it wasn't. <ul><li>Date: Sunday 30th of October 1960 (at 12:20am+, likely time of murder)</li><li>Location: top floor flat, 5 Westbourne Park Road, Bayswater, London, UK, W2</li><li>Victim: 1 (William Davies)</li><li>Culprits: 1 (Istvan Szabo)</li></ul> Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of <a href="https://www.cultwithnoname.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cult With No Name</a> and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/category/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> and a <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/legal-disclaimer.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal disclaimer</a>. For links <a href="https://linktr.ee/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a> To subscribe via Patreon, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>

#284 - Dead Man's Hand (Bayswater, London, UK)

This is Part Three of Three of The Vice Girl Killer.&nbsp;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 confirmed that a crazed killer was on the loose. But still unsolved today, it remains one of the most perplexing unsolved double murders in Britain. But who was he? This episode explores the often-forgotten 'other' suspect in the murder of Marina Monti, and Paul Milburn in 1993. &nbsp;<ul><li>Date: Monday 26th of April 1993 at 4:20pm (murder of Paul MIlburn)</li><li>Location: Noke Lane near St Albans</li><li>Victim: 1 (Paul Anthony Milburn)</li><li>Culprits: Justin Martin Clarke</li></ul>&nbsp;Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of <a href="https://www.cultwithnoname.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cult With No Name</a> and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/category/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> and a <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/legal-disclaimer.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal disclaimer</a>.

#283 - The Vice Girl Killer - Part Three (Justin Martin Clarke, West End, London)

This 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 confirmed that a crazed killer was on the loose. But still unsolved today, it remains one of the most perplexing unsolved double murders in Britain. But who was he? <ul><li>Date: Sunday 25th of January 1987 (last seen at 10:30pm)</li><li>Location: The King's Head, 132 Edgware Road, London, UK, W2</li><li>Victim: 1 (Racheal Applewhaite / Folke)</li><li>Culprits: ?</li></ul> Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of <a href="https://www.cultwithnoname.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cult With No Name</a> and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/category/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> and a <a href="https://www.murdermiletours.com/legal-disclaimer.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal disclaimer</a>. For links <a href="https://linktr.ee/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a> To subscribe via Patreon, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/murdermile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>

#282 - The Vice Girl Killer - Part Two (Racheal Applewhaite, London, UK)

TRIPLE NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards and nominated for the Best True Crime Podcast at the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is a unique true-crime podcast of 300+ of London, Soho and the West End’s untold, unsolved and forgotten murder cases

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 Magazine's Hot 50, The Telegraph's Top 5, Crime &amp; Investigation Channel's Top 20 True-Crime Podcasts, also seen on BBC Radio, Sky News, The Guardian and Talk Radio's Podcast of the Week. Researched using the declassified police investigation files and court records.

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