#114 - The Incompetence of John Carragher (Covent Garden, London)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On Friday 29th March 1968 at roughly 4:20pm, 56-year-old wages clerk Frederick Monk was bludgeoned to death by an unknown assailant inside of a locked office. The attack was brutal, but nothing was stolen. So, was this a robbery, a murder, or something else?
- Date: Friday 29th March 1968
- Location: F Cope & Co, 17-19 Whitcomb Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2
- Victims: 1 (Frederick Ernest Monk)
- Culprits: 1 (John Carragher/Callaghan/Cash)
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:31.0 | A true crime podcast, an audio guided walk, featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and |
| 0:39.5 | long-forgotten murders. |
| 0:41.9 | All said within and beyond the West End. |
| 0:47.0 | Today's episode is about Frederick Monk, |
| 0:50.0 | an inoffensive wages clerk at a small decorating firm who was bludgeoned to death by an unknown |
| 0:56.3 | assailant inside of a locked office. |
| 1:00.4 | The attack was brutal, but nothing was stolen. |
| 1:04.0 | So was this a robbery, a murder or something else? |
| 1:10.0 | Murder mileage research using the original police files. |
| 1:14.0 | It contains moments of satire, shock, and grisly details. |
| 1:18.0 | And as a dramatization of the real events, |
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| 1:39.0 | Episode 114, the incompetence of John Carrigo. |
| 1:44.0 | Today I'm standing. |
| 1:47.0 | Today I'm standing in Wickham Street, W.C. 2. 1 Street South of the Chinatown Night Club, where David Knight's |
| 2:00.6 | death sparked a gangland hit. |
| 2:03.0 | Two streets southeast of the back alley in Piccadilly, |
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