#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
⏱️ 65 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 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:13.6 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within |
| 0:20.3 | and beyond the worst end. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's episode is about Frederick Monk, |
| 0:27.6 | an inoffensive wages clerk at a small decorating firm |
| 0:31.6 | who was bludgeoned to death by an unknown assailant inside of a locked office. |
| 0:36.6 | The attack was brutal, but nothing was stolen. |
| 0:42.3 | So was this a robbery, a murder, or something else? |
| 0:48.3 | Murder Mile is research used in the original police files. |
| 0:51.3 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details. And as a dramatization |
| 0:57.6 | of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you |
| 1:03.6 | listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. My name is Michael. I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:16.4 | Episode 114, The Incompetence of John Carriger. |
| 1:33.3 | Today, I'm standing in Wickham Street, WC2. One street south of the Chinatown nightclub where David Knight's death sparked a gangland hit. |
| 1:40.3 | Two streets south-east of the back alley in Piccadilly where the Blackout Ripper's killing spree was cut short. |
| 1:47.0 | One street west of the attack on Desmond O'Burn |
| 1:51.0 | and a few doors east of the murder of the Royal Automobile Club. |
| 1:56.0 | Coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 2:01.6 | Situated within the shadow of the National Gallery, |
| 2:04.6 | Whitcomb Street is an anonymous little side street within a few seconds walk of Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square. |
| 2:12.6 | Like many parts of the West End, Wickham Street wasn't designed, it evolved in an ad hoc way. |
| 2:20.9 | Hence this gloomy little one-way road consists of a monstrous mess of new builds for big businesses, |
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