#107 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part One (The Girls)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 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?
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| 1:35.0 | A True Crime Podcast, an audio guided walk featuring many of London's untold, |
| 1:41.0 | untold, unsolved and long forgotten murders, all set within and beyond |
| 1:47.5 | the West End. |
| 1:50.5 | Today's episode is about the vicious double murder of Barbara Songhurst and Christine Reed. |
| 1:57.8 | Two innocent and inseparable best friends brutally savaged on a peaceful riverside towpath. |
| 2:05.0 | But who would want these two young girls dead? |
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