#103 - The Beating of Baby Richard (Soho, London, W1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 74 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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:14.6 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, |
| 0:20.4 | all set within and beyond the West End. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's episode is about the tragic little life of an 11-month-old baby boy, known only as Richard. |
| 0:32.6 | Described as a bastard child, his widowed mother struggled against insurmountable odds in the hope that he would survive. |
| 0:41.3 | Only those she was forced to trust with his care became his killers. |
| 0:46.3 | Murder-Mali's research used in the original police files. |
| 0:51.3 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization |
| 0:57.2 | of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you |
| 1:03.5 | listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. My name is Michael, I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:15.8 | Episode 103, The Beating of Baby Richard. |
| 1:26.2 | Today, I'm standing on Bouchier Street in Soho, W1. |
| 1:35.1 | One street of the brutal attack on Parisian sex worker Jacqueline Bivvy, several doors |
| 1:41.6 | down from the sex shop Slayer Richard Rhodes Henley, |
| 1:45.0 | 200 feet west of the deaf-mute murder of Rosa O'Neill, |
| 1:50.0 | and with the rear windows of the Admiral Duncan Pub and Dutch Layers' pad peering over, |
| 1:56.0 | we're only a one-minute walk from the French house, |
| 2:00.0 | where William Raven met his lovers, his robbers and his executioners, |
| 2:05.6 | coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 2:11.6 | Hidden amongst the gloomy darkness of Old Compton Street and Maid Street, |
| 2:15.6 | Bruchier Street is little more than a side alley between Dean Street and Wardour Street. |
| 2:21.3 | First known as Mill Calle, from 1883 to 1937, it became Little Dean Street, |
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