#107 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part One (The Girls, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This is Part One of Three of the Thames Towpath Murders.
On the night of Sunday 31st May 1953, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Reed, two innocent and inseparable best-friends were brutally raped and murdered on a peaceful towpath and their bodies were dumped in the River Thames. But who would want these two young girls dead, and why?
- Date: Sunday 31st May 1953
- Location: Teddington Lock, a towpath off the River Thames, Twickenham, TW1,
- Victims: 2 (Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed)
- Culprits: 1 (Alfred Charles Whiteway)
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| 1:10.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 1:13.7 | A true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 1:17.4 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders, |
| 1:23.4 | all set within and beyond the West End. |
| 1:28.3 | Today's episode is about the vicious double murder of Barbara Songhurst and Christine Reed. |
| 1:35.3 | Two innocent and inseparable best friends, brutally savaged on a peaceful riverside towpath. |
| 1:42.3 | But who would want these two young girls dead and why? |
| 1:47.0 | Murder Mali's research using the original police files. |
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