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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#111 - The Scattered Remains of Hannah Brown Maida Vale, London)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

True Crime, English, Nglish, E, Uk, Crime, London, Society & Culture, Murder, Killer, True-crime, History, Personal Journals, British

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday 28th December 1836 at roughly 2pm, off Pineapple Place in Maida Vale, the dismembered torso of an unidentified lady was discovered hidden behind a paving stone. With no arms, no legs and no head, her identity was impossible to determine, but the investigation and discovery of subsequent body parts unearthed one of the most brutal murders in British history.

  • Date: 24th December 1836 to 10th April 1837
  • Location: Pineapple Place, Maida Vale, London, W2
  • Victims: 1 (Hannah Brown)
  • Culprits: 1 (James Greenacre & Sarah Gale)


Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.



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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk,

0:13.1

featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders,

0:19.0

all set within and beyond the West End.

0:23.6

Today's episode is about Hannah Brown, a hardworking, sweet-natured widow in the twilight

0:30.6

years of her life, who was looking to settle down, set up a shop and moved to America

0:36.6

with her loving husband to be. Every part of her dream

0:41.1

became true. Only what she found wasn't happiness, but death. Murdomali's research

0:49.7

using the original police files. It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details.

0:56.5

And as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds,

1:02.4

so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there.

1:09.7

My name is Michael.

1:11.6

I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile.

1:17.5

Episode 111, The Scattered Remains of Hannah Brown.

1:35.9

Today, I'm standing by the Mada Hill Tunnel, just off the Edgeware Road, W2.

1:43.8

Four blocks north of the Seedy Hotel, where Agnes Mary Walsh met a demise at the hands of the sad-faced killer.

1:45.0

Three blocks north of the odd suicide pact of Lieutenant Colonel Felix Sturber.

1:51.0

One Street northeast of the floating suitcase found to have been stuffed with the suffocated

1:57.0

corpse of Marta Ligman.

1:59.0

And one street west of the unsolved and deeply troubling death of Amala DeVier Whelan,

2:05.6

coming soon to Murder Mile.

2:13.6

Situated within tooting distance of the dingy squalor of Paddington Station,

2:18.3

running parallel with the busy roar of Edge Rail Road,

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