#197 - The Soho Strangler - Part One 'The Suicide of French Fifi' (Soho/UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This is Part One of Ten of The Soho Strangler.
On Monday 4th November 1935, at roughly noon, the body of 41—year-old Josephine Martin, a Soho prostitute known as ‘French Fifi’ was found by her maid in her own bed, having asphyxiated herself using her own stocking. Wracked with debts and depression, her death was noted as “possibly a suicide”… when in fact, it was the first killing by The Soho Strangler.
- Date: Monday 4th November 1935 between 2am and 4am
- Location: Flat 1, 3rd Floor, 3-4 Archer Street, Soho, W1
- Victim: 1 (Josephine Mechanique/Martin, alias 'French Fifi')
- Britain's unknown and long forgotten serial killer
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| 0:00.0 | Extra, extra, read all about it. |
| 0:04.0 | Chat the river battle's Scotland Yard. |
| 0:26.6 | 1888, Whitechapel, |
| 0:29.6 | Home to East London's sex trade. |
| 0:35.6 | The sinister shadow stalked its dark brooding alleys, brutally slaying a slew of so-called |
| 0:41.9 | fallen women in a vicious spree over just a few streets. |
| 0:49.1 | Fleeing unseen and leaving no clues. |
| 0:53.3 | The mystery of Jack the Ripper's identity and motive |
| 0:56.2 | fueled a burgeoning tabloid media, |
| 0:59.4 | baying for blood and print, |
| 1:03.0 | making his killings as infamous today as they were back then. |
| 1:16.6 | Jack the Ripper was the first free killer of his kind. |
| 1:20.6 | But he wasn't the last. |
| 1:26.6 | Extra, extra, read all about it. Soho Strangler Battle of Scotland Yard. |
| 1:33.3 | 1935, Soho. |
| 1:38.3 | Almost 50 years later, and three miles west, |
| 1:42.3 | An unseen slayer stalked the fog-wreath streets of West London's Red Light District. |
| 1:48.0 | Four women, all poor, all foreign, all linked to the sex trade, |
| 1:56.0 | and all unnervingly similar in life and looks, |
| 2:00.0 | were strangled alone in their beds with escalating |
| 2:03.6 | ferocity. |
| 2:08.6 | Dubbed the Soho Strangler, this lone maniac terrified these few streets, leaving women in fear, |
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