#109 - The Thames Towpath Murders - Part Three (The Suspect, Alfred Charles Whiteway)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
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🗓️ 17 September 2020
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This is Part Three of Three of the Thames Towpath Murders.
Across May & June 1953, a violent serial rapist who would attack lone women in isolated spots in and around Teddington, and yet, going against his own method, that same man would rape and murder two young girls at the same time. But why?
- Date: 26th May to 17th June 1953
- Location: Teddington Lock, Oxshott Heath and Windsor Great Park, London,
- Victims: 4 (Barbara Songhurst, Christine Rose Reed, Patricia Birch and Kathleen Ringham)
- Culprits: 1 (Alfred Charles Whiteway)
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