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 the final part about 19-year-old Michael Douglas Dowdell,

a baby-faced killer who had brutally bludgeoned a woman to death,

and although this could have been dismissed as an isolated drunken mistake,

this murder may mark the beginning of a serial killer in the making.

Murder-Marley's research used in authentic sources.

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'm your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile.

Episode 155, The Sadistic Little Drummer Boy, Part 2.

Today, I'm standing on the corner of De Morgan Road and Townsmead Road in Fulham, SW10. A few roads south of Jane Andrews' attack on a sleeping boyfriend, Tommy Cressman.

A ten-minute stroll from the home invasion by

the Devil's Child, and a few feet from the spot on the River Thames were an infamous murderer

supposedly disposed of an unrecorded victim. Coming soon to Murder Mile.

Being typical of the Hodgepodge way that most of London is built, this street is a mishmash of styles from the last two centuries.

There's a long row of identical Victorian terraces, an old wharf fashioned as an office space

and posh flats, a 1970s tower block with a recent lick of paint, and of course, near to what used to be

Ismailia Road, sits a set of flats, imaginatively called Ismailia House.

Like most new builds, Ismailia House was constructed in the old-time British tradition,

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