#10 - Alfredo Zomparelli and the Golden Goose (Soho, London, W1)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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 supposedly a contract killing. But who ordered him killed? And why?

Date: Wednesday 4th September 1974
Location: 36-38 Old Compton Street (now Muriel's Kitchen), Soho, London, W1
Victims: 1 (Alfredo Zomparelli, plus David Knight, Nicky Gerard and Tommy Hole)
Culprit: Nicky Gerard & George Bradshaw (but also Alfredo Zomparelli)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk,
0:13.5	featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within
0:20.4	one square mile of the West End.
0:23.6	Today's episode is a guided walk of the revenge attack on Alfredo Zamparelli.
0:29.6	A minor Soho gangster, part-time pimp, and brutal enforcer gunned down by two hitmen.
0:38.3	And yet, what started as nothing more than a minor squabble
0:41.3	with a handful of bruises and a few dented egos
0:45.3	led to one of Britain's deadliest and bloodiest gangland feuds.
0:51.3	Murder Mile contains graphic descriptions of death,
0:57.2	which may not be suitable for those of a sensitive disposition,
1:00.2	as well as loud and realistic sounds,
1:03.8	so that no matter where you listen to this podcast,
1:06.8	you'll feel like you're actually there.
1:15.0	My name is Michael. I am your tour guide. This is Murder Mile.
1:22.6	Episode 10. Alfredo Zumparelli and the Golden Goose. Today I'm back on Old Compton Street, a place that some keen-eared listeners of the Murder Mile True Crime podcast have already started to dub the epicentre of death.
1:42.3	As standing right here on this ridiculously tiny street, I'm surrounded by murder.
1:48.0	To my right is the bloody deathbed of Soho Prostitute Dutch Lair
1:53.0	and the tragic bombing of the Admiral Duncan.
1:56.0	To my left is where the Curority Shop killer Edwin Bush was captured. And ahead is the gutter where the last pint of blood of the notoriously cruel gangster, Tony Meller,
2:08.6	spilled down the drain from his infamously empty heart.
2:12.6	As well as the curious death of Charles Bellata, the baffling death of Bolloslav Pankorski,
2:20.3	the corner where Mafia frontman, Albert Dimes,
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