Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders, all set within and beyond the West End.

Today's episode is about Sir Bernard Spilsbury,

the acclaimed pathologist and father of forensic science,

whose most celebrated case made his name

and changed the face of murder investigations forever.

But how solid was his evidence and did it lead to an innocent man being executed?

Murder Marley's research used in the original police files.

It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you 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. Episode 115,

the lethal evidence of Sir Bernard Spilsbury.

Today I'm standing on New Oxford Street, WC1.

Two roads north of the St. Giles' Workhouse, where Charlie Chergwin's life was ended by an official's Little Jobsworth.

Two roads south of Zachariah Bullhands' delirious rampage in Russell Square, a few doors down from the deadly tidal wave at the Mayo & Co.

and Co. Brewery, and one street east of the bloody conclusion

to the Mummies'' Killing Spree.

Coming soon to Murder Mile.

Situated just shy of the Tottenham Court Road tube station,

unlike Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, is a vague part of Bloomsbury, where a multitude of people pass through

every day, but no one stops, as there's no real shops.

There are the usual branded things, like a coffee place, a sushi place and a burger place,

as well as a pub chain, a church, and a pointlessly tacky tourist shop, which sells stereotypically British crap, covered in Union Jacks, all of which were made in China.

But there's no reason to head here, or even to stay.

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