#169 - Samuel Bragg: The Miser's Demise (Maida Vale, London, England)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
On the morning of Friday 17th July 1964, Kathleen Cotter, a mother of three who lived in the top floor flat of 7 Randolph Avenue in Maida Vale found 77-year-old Samuel Bragg dead in his bed. The old man had been ill for many months owing to malnutrition and advancing dementia.
As was protocol, the police were called, an investigation was conducted, but his autopsy would confirm what everyone suspected, that old Samuel had died in his sleep. It’s a tragic story which happens every day, in every town…
…only, a small sound heard higher up in the house would lead to a truly disturbing story which nobody suspected and would lead to the arrest of the murderer of Samuel Bragg.
- Date: Friday 17th July 1964
- Location: Ground Floor Flat, 7 Randolph Avenue, Maida Vale, London, UK, W9
- Victims: 1 (Samuel Bragg)
- Culprits: 1 (Timothy Noel Cotter)
- Keywords: child, teenager, robbery, killing, pensioner, pillow
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:11.6 | Today, I'm standing on Randolph Avenue in Maida Vale, W9. |
| 0:22.4 | Two streets south of the arrest of Edward Rallstrom Lewis, a hundred feet east of the |
| 0:28.1 | frozen torso of Hannah Brown, and two roads west of the unsolved murder by a killer who |
| 0:35.6 | claimed to be the real Ripper. Coming soon to murder mile. |
| 0:45.3 | Nestled to the side of Little Venice, Randolph Avenue is a quiet, discreet and impressively |
| 0:51.6 | clean road lined with an odd mix of building styles, reflecting its ever-changing |
| 0:57.0 | fortune over the centuries. Not too long ago, it was full of run-down council tenements, |
| 1:05.0 | but today it's mostly full of celebrities. |
| 1:14.3 | But aside from featuring in the comedy, a fish called Wander, |
| 1:17.1 | where Otto, played by Kevin Klein, |
| 1:20.5 | sideswipes a car and shouts the immortal lying, |
| 1:22.1 | asshole! |
| 1:26.3 | You'll have no reason to know this street. |
| 1:35.3 | At 7 Randolph Avenue currently sits a five-story townhouse worth 6 million pounds. |
| 1:42.3 | And although the loft and the white dark columns around the door are recent additions, it looks as it did in the 1960s. Back in 1964, the |
| 1:50.4 | ground floor flat was the home of 77-year-old Samuel Bragg, a war veteran who suffered |
| 1:57.6 | with dementia and lived in squalor. |
| 2:06.6 | Thankfully, living in a house full of caring neighbours, when he needed help, they were always there, |
| 2:10.6 | right up to the day that he passed away in his bed. |
| 2:15.6 | It's a sad story which happens every day in every town. |
| 2:23.3 | Only Samuel's seemingly peaceful death would lead to his killers arrest. |
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