#134 - Penny Bell and the Thirty-Year Silence (Greenford, London, England)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is about Penny Bell; a successful businesswoman brutally-stabbed to death in a public place. And although her last moments alive left an exhaustive trail of witnesses and clues, thirty-years on, her murder remains unsolved.
- Date: Thursday 6th June 1991 at 10:30am
- Location: Gurnell Leisure Centre, Ruislip Road East, Greenford, London, Uk, W13
- Victims: 1 (Ruth Penelope "Penny" Bell)
- Culprits: Unknown
- Keywords: CrimeWatch, unsolved, mystery,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, |
| 0:11.2 | A True Crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:14.4 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders. |
| 0:20.1 | All sit within and beyond the West End. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's episode is about Penny Bell. |
| 0:29.6 | A successful businesswoman brutally stabbed to death in a public place. |
| 0:34.6 | And although her last moments alive left an exhaustive trail of witnesses and clues, |
| 0:40.3 | 30 years on, her murder remains unsolved. Maudemarle's research used in authentic sources. It contains |
| 0:51.0 | moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as the 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. |
| 1:08.2 | My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:13.6 | Episode 134, Penny Bell and the 30 Years' Silence. |
| 1:21.6 | Today Today, I'm standing at Gernel Grove in Greenford, W-13. |
| 1:37.4 | Two miles north east of the kidnap of the Chohan family. |
| 1:41.6 | One and a half miles north of Alice Cross's grave, one mile west of where |
| 1:47.0 | Muriel Edie met Reg Christie, and two miles west of the child rapist Bernie Cooper, |
| 1:55.0 | coming soon to murder mile. Situated north of Hanwell sits Gernel Grove, whereas once this comprised |
| 2:06.2 | of a few small farmsteads full of fields for as far as the eye could see, as the city |
| 2:12.1 | boomed, the high-rises shot up, Greenery was replaced with grey. |
| 2:20.2 | One of the last parks became a golf course, |
| 2:25.4 | where ten tossers in garish checks hog a space fit through a few thousand families. |
| 2:31.5 | And all that was left was an ugly eyesaw ensnared by the snarling A-40. To offset this inequality, beside the Reisleap Road East |
| 2:38.0 | sits the Gernel Leisure Centre. |
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