#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
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:14.1 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, long-forgotten murders, |
| 0:20.1 | all set within and beyond the worst end. |
| 0:25.2 | Today's episode is part one of two about 19-year-old Michael Douglas Dowdell. |
| 0:32.2 | Described as a pathetic little mama's boy, his early crimes didn't just set out to prove his bullies wrong. |
| 0:39.3 | They also became the first faltering steps of potentially a fledgling serial killer. |
| 0:47.3 | Murder-Mali's research using authentic sources. |
| 0:51.3 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization |
| 0:57.0 | of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you |
| 1:04.3 | 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. |
| 1:17.4 | Episode 154, The Sadistic Little Drummer Boy, Part 1. |
| 1:40.9 | Today Today, I'm standing on Chaltern on Kilburn, NW6. Right in the middle of the St. John's home of Teddy Seif, where Carlos the Jackal botched his first assassination, |
| 1:46.0 | the Halston home where eight-year-old Peter Buckingham took his last gasp, |
| 1:51.0 | the Cricklewood Arms pub where Stephen Holmes met the kindly killer, |
| 1:56.0 | and an unsolved attack by another potential ripper. |
| 2:01.1 | Coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 2:07.3 | Charterres Road is a lovely little residential street comprising of two long lines of two-story |
| 2:13.5 | terraces from the 1920s and 30s. It's very quiet and very orderly. |
| 2:20.3 | With a smattering of silver birch trees, |
| 2:23.3 | the road carefully marked with wide lines to denote who parks where and when, |
| 2:28.3 | and with a covered bike rack almost certainly chock full of Brompton's. |
| 2:33.3 | There's no noise, no kids, no smell, and no mess. |
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