#108 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part Two (The Investigation, Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This is Part Two of Three of The Thames Towpath Murders.
On the morning of Monday 1st June 1953, at 09:05am, the body of Barbara Songhurst was pulled out of the River Thames at Radnor Gardens and brought ashore at St Helena Pier, as many dead bodies are. But even before an autopsy was conducted, Scotland Yard were notified, as this was no accident, this was unmistakably a murder.
- Date: Monday 1st June 1953
- Location: St Helena Pier, by Richmond Bridge, Twickenham, TW1
- Victims: 2 (Barbara Songhurst and Christine Rose Reed)
- Culprits: 1 (Alfred Charles Whiteway)
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| 1:09.6 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 1:16.8 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, |
| 1:22.7 | all set within and beyond the worst end. |
| 1:27.1 | Today's episode is about the investigation into the vicious double murder within and beyond the worst end. |
| 1:27.8 | Today's episode is about the investigation into the vicious double murder of two best friends, |
| 1:33.7 | Barbara Songhurst and Christine Reed, who was stabbed, raped and disposed of by an unknown |
| 1:40.2 | attacker on a peaceful Thames' towpath. But who was this man and why did he kill? |
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