#154 - The Sadistic Little Drummer Boy - Part One (Kilburn, London, England)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Today’s episode is Part One of Two about 19-year-old Michael Douglas Dowdall. Described as a pathetic little mummy’s boy, his early crimes didn’t just set out to prove his bullies wrong, they also became the first faltering steps of - potentially - a fledgling serial-killer.
- Date: Monday 15th December 1958 (poss' day of the murder)
- Location: first floor flat, 58 Charteris Road, Kilburn, London, England, NW6
- Victims: 1 dead (Veronica Murray)
- Culprits: 1 (Michael Douglas Dowdall)
- Keywords: psychopath, psychotic, crazed, maniac,
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| 0:38.5 | untold, unsolved, long-forgotten murders. |
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| 0:48.0 | Today's episode is part one of two about 19-year-old Michael Douglas Dowdall. |
| 0:54.9 | Described as a pathetic little momma's boy, his early crimes |
| 0:59.2 | didn't just set out to prove his body's wrong. |
| 1:02.6 | They also became the first-fulturing steps of potentially a fledgling serial killer. |
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