#157 - The Blackout Ripper: First Blood - Part One (Mabel Church, Britain)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In the second week of February 1942, six women were attacked on consequecutive days across London's West End; two were violently assaulted and four were brutally tortured and murdered. All were attributed to Gordon Frederick Cummins, who would later be dubbed 'The Blackout Ripper'. But was he a one-off spree-killer, or did this sadistic maniac have two more victims in his past?
- Date: Monday 12th October 1941 at between 10pm and 10:30pm (time of the attack)
- Location: 225 Hampstead Road, London, England, NW1 (demolished)
- Victims: 1 attacked (Mabel Church)
- Culprits: 1 (Gordon Frederick Cummins?)
- Two possible killings by Britain's least known spree killer
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| 0:30.9 | It began with Evelyn Hamilton. |
| 0:42.8 | A lonely 41-year-old pharmacist found strangled in an airway shelter in Montague Place. |
| 0:50.8 | With her leg spread, her genitals and right breast exposed. |
| 0:55.0 | There was no doubt that she had been posed. |
| 0:58.0 | Whether to shame her, to shock her finders, or to titillate her crazed torturer. |
| 1:06.5 | It seemed like a one-off, but it was not. |
| 1:12.4 | The next night, 34-year-old Evelyn Oatley, a sex worker known as Lita Ward, |
| 1:18.4 | was found strangled with a stocking in a warden street flat. |
| 1:22.3 | Posed to elicit maximum horror. |
| 1:27.1 | With great relish, he had carved up her semi-conscious body, |
| 1:31.3 | with a kitchen knife, a razor blade, and a can opener with a claw-like hook. |
| 1:37.2 | Having thrust her metal torch, deep into her gaping vagina. |
| 1:45.4 | Two different police divisions handled each murder. |
| 1:48.7 | But before they knew that the cases were connected, he had attacked again. |
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