#108 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part Two (The Investigation)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 71 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.
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| 1:20.6 | code at UK for terms. Welcome to Murder Mile. A True Crime Podcast, an audio guided walk, featuring many of London's |
| 1:40.6 | untold, unsolved and long forgotten murders. All said within and beyond the worst end. |
| 1:47.0 | Today's episode is about the investigation into the vicious double murder of two best friends, Barbara |
| 1:56.0 | Songhurst and Christine Reed, who was stabbed, raped and disposed of by an unknown attacker on a peaceful Thames towpath. |
| 2:06.4 | But who was this man and why did he kill? |
| 2:10.9 | Murder-Miley's research using the original police files. |
| 2:14.0 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details. |
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