#188 - The Bearded Man - Part Two (Paddington, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This is Part Two of Two of The Bearded Man.
At 12:45am on Saturday 14th January 1956, Ruby a local sex-worker was dropped off at this spot by her husband and pimp called Ernest. In his own words, “it was the last time I saw her alive”, as when he returned to their flat at 32 Westbourne Terrace, Ruby had been hatchetted to death in their bed.
As the police’s prime suspect, Ernest would lay the blame for her murder on a mysterious man he had neither seen, met and had only heard about from his dead wife in passing. Unable to provide a single shred of evidence that this suspect even existed, his only description was that he was ‘a bearded man’. But was this the truth, a lie, or a shaky alibi?
- Date: Saturday 14th January 1956 at 12:45am (last seen alive)
- Location: Flat 7, 32 Westbourne Terrace. Paddington, London, W2
- Victims: 1 (Rosina Bolton/Pattinson, known as Ruby)
- Culprits: 1 (Leonard Vincent Atter? Ernest Bolton?)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:13.2 | Today, I'm standing on the junction of Hartford Street and Park Lane in Mayfair W1. |
| 0:22.0 | One street south of the last defence of Tudor Simeonov. |
| 0:26.4 | One street east of the monstrous murder blamed on the horror maestro Lanchini, a few doors |
| 0:33.1 | down from the Bloody Butler's big blowout, and a short walk northeast |
| 0:38.3 | of the tragic war hero |
| 0:40.4 | who would never return home. |
| 0:44.3 | Coming soon to murder mile. |
| 0:50.8 | Engulfed by a flank of five-star hotels, |
| 0:55.0 | if you're a talentless, fame-hungry personality vacuum, with fake teeth, fake tan, fake |
| 1:01.5 | tits and a fake life, with a trawled on smile, a solo brain cell reserved for poutink, |
| 1:08.4 | and a single expression of, oh my god, uttered like a constipated frog, |
| 1:14.8 | then this is the place for you. |
| 1:20.0 | But since the early 1700s, when Park Lane was developed as a Playboy's playground, |
| 1:26.4 | it has always been a place where prostitutes and punters |
| 1:29.1 | meet. As rightfully, a lady of the night should want to meet a man with money and hopefully |
| 1:36.1 | manners, rather than a drunk thug with fast fists and hardly a tuppence. |
| 1:45.0 | At 12.45 a.m, on Saturday the 14th of January, |
| 1:49.0 | 1956, Ruby, a local sex worker, was dropped off at this spot |
| 1:56.0 | by her husband and pimp called Ernest. |
| 2:00.0 | In his own words, |
| 2:02.2 | it was the last time I saw her alive. |
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