#106 - The Last Love of the Chiswick Cat Ladies (Chiswick, London, W4)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On the morning of Friday 27th August 1971, in the basement flat at 15 Linden Gardens in Chiswick, W4; with her family life in tatters, her emotions frought and everything she had ever loved destroyed, being at a loss at her lover’s rejection, Nora Tenconi took several desperate steps which ended in death. But why?
- Date: Friday 27th August 1971
- Location: Basement Flat, 15A Linden Gardens, Chiswick, W4
- Victims: 1 (Barbara Judith Doyle)
- Culprits: 1 (Nora Tenconi nee O'Donnell)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's |
| 0:15.5 | untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within and beyond the West End. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's episode is a simple story about two like-minded ladies, who found love, a nice flat, |
| 0:31.6 | and a happy home life together having adopted many cats. |
| 0:36.6 | Nora and Barbara were each other's forever lovers. |
| 0:40.3 | But true love doesn't always last, |
| 0:42.3 | and when the romance died, |
| 0:44.3 | it drove one lady to leave, |
| 0:47.3 | and her lover to kill. |
| 0:51.3 | Murder-Miley's research using the original police files. |
| 0:55.5 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details. |
| 0:59.7 | And as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, |
| 1:05.5 | so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:12.7 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. Episode 106, |
| 1:21.5 | The Last Love of the Chiswick Cat Ladies. |
| 1:41.3 | Today, I'm standing in Linden Gardens, in Chiswick, W4, a place we've only tenuously been to before, |
| 1:45.4 | as we're one street south of where Kate Beagle picked up Carl Taylor for their first and last date, a quick cycle east of the arrest of Edward |
| 1:51.3 | Tickle for the bungled abortion of Helen Mary Pickwood, and were just a few stops from the |
| 1:57.5 | six-day killing spree of Britain's very own Bonnie and Clyde. |
| 2:01.6 | Coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 2:08.6 | Chiswick High Road is deeply pretentious and desperate to cling on to its posh aspirations of yesteryear. |
| 2:14.6 | It's the kind of place where you'll find avocados, humus, sold out copies of horse and hound, |
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