#103 - The Beating of Baby Richard (Soho child killer)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday 4th October 1853, in a squalid first-floor lodging at 6 Little Dean Street, the beating of baby Richard began… and ten days later, he would be dead. Described as a ‘bastard’ child, his widowed mother struggled against insurmountable odds in the hope that he would survive, only those she was forced to trust with his care, became his killers.
- ate: Tuesday 4th to Friday 14th October 1853
- Location: 6 Little Dean Street, now called Bourchier Street, W1
- Victims: 1 (Richard Higgs, possibly Ryall or Banks)
- Culprits: 1 (Joseph Birch and Caroline Nash)
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| 1:40.8 | untold, unsolved and long forgotten murders. |
| 1:45.1 | All said within and beyond the West End. |
| 1:49.8 | Today's episode is where the tragic little life of an 11-month-old baby boy, known only as Richard. |
| 1:57.0 | Described as a bastard child, his widowed mother struggled against insurmountable odds in the hope that he would survive. |
| 2:06.0 | Only those she was forced to trust with his care became his killers. |
| 2:12.0 | Murder-Malley's research used in the original police killers. |
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