#19 - Norah Upchurch and her Lonely Death in the Empty Shop Part 2
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday 25th July 1933, 27 year old Frederick Field fully confessed to the murder of West End prostitute Norah Upchurch who was found strangled inside a locked empty shop in Shaftesbury Avenue. And yet – in a bizarre twist of fate - even today, her murder remains unsolved.
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| 0:37.5 | Terms apply 18 plus subject to approval. Welcome to Murder Mile. A true Crime Podcast and Audio Guided Walk |
| 0:55.0 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and long forgotten murders, |
| 1:00.0 | all set within one square mile of the West End. |
| 1:06.0 | Today's episode is the concluding part of the murder of Nora Upchurch. |
| 1:12.0 | A West End prostitute who is of Nora Upchurch. |
| 1:20.0 | A West End prostitute who was found strangled in a locked and empty shop by Frederick Field. |
| 1:31.0 | A local handyman whose detailed description of her supposed killer ultimately led the police to their chief suspect himself. no matter where you listen to this podcast you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:48.0 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:56.0 | Episode 19, Nora Upchurch and her lonely death in the empty shop, part two. |
| 2:04.0 | On Tuesday the 25th of July, 1933 at 1230 PM in Shoe Lane, a tightly cobblestone |
| 2:21.7 | road just off Fleet Street, which is the supposed workplace of the bloody barber, Sweeney Todd. |
| 2:28.5 | But is more famously the home of many of Britain's worst tabloid hacks, who'd happily slit their own mother's throat, |
| 2:36.0 | spill their granny's guts, and package up the entrails into a steamy festering pie, |
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