#176 - The Night Porter - Part One (Bayswater, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This is Part One of Three of The Night Porter.
On the morning of Sunday 17th September 1972, in Room 11,68-year-old Emmy Werner was found dead in the bed of Room 11 in the Queen’s Hotel, Bayswater. Having locked her door from the inside – gaining entry - someone had beaten, suffocated and strangled her. It was a cruel and motiveless crime on a defenseless old lady, which remains unsolved to this day. But who had killed her, and why?
- Date: Sunday 17th September 1972 (discovered)
- Location: Room 11, Queen's Hotel, Inverness Terrace, London, UK, W2
- Victims: 1 (Emmy Werner)
- Keywords: burglary, unsolved,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:15.4 | Today, I'm standing on Inverness Terrace in Bayswater, W2. |
| 0:22.4 | Two streets west of the three possible murders of Vincent Carey, |
| 0:27.4 | a few doors north of the stabbing of U.S. airmen Stanley Thurman, |
| 0:32.8 | and two streets west of the sadistic sex pest known as the bearded man. |
| 0:38.3 | Coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 0:45.3 | Inverness Terrace is a quiet little side street between Hyde Park, Paddington and Notting Hill. |
| 0:51.3 | Dotted with cheap little beanbees for tourists. |
| 0:55.0 | Many guests dismiss the damp walls, sticky sheets and deluxe views of the bins out back. |
| 1:02.0 | Feeling they've got value for money, if it includes a complimentary sliver of soap, |
| 1:07.0 | two tea bags, a stale biscuit and a splat of shampoo, barely enough to scrub |
| 1:14.0 | three hairs and half a nipple. And yet freebies aside, we all flippantly take our safety |
| 1:22.5 | in a strange room, as if it's a given. |
| 1:33.2 | In 1972, at 86 to 90 Inverness Terrace one stood the Queen's Hotel. |
| 1:36.7 | A row of five-story townhouses knocked through |
| 1:39.6 | to create a 60-roomed guesthouse |
| 1:42.1 | with accommodation for residents and staff. |
| 1:47.0 | A regular customer was 68-year-old Emmy Werner, |
| 1:51.0 | a harmless little daughter of a lady who suffered with dementia owing to the horrors of her past. |
| 1:58.0 | But having found a place to stay, as well as much needed company among the youthful and friendly |
| 2:03.6 | staff, here she felt safe. Or at least, she should have been. |
| 2:11.6 | On the morning of Sunday, 17th of September, 1972, in room 11, Emmy was found dead in her bed. |
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