#200 - The Soho Strangler - Part Four 'The Mysterious Death by a Lodger' (Soho, UK)

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Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This is Part Four of Ten of The Soho Strangler.

By the morning of Friday 17th April 1936, word had spread around Soho that 43-year-old Jeanne-Marie Cotton had been murdered; strangled in her own flat, using her own scarf, with no suspects or motive.

It seemed like a random unprovoked attack on a defenceless woman for no reason. It was a case which would have been forgotten, until it was connected to an unnervingly similar murder two streets south and five months earlier upon another French brunette in her early forties. Was this a coincidence?

Date: Friday 17th April 1936
Location: 3rd Floor, Denard Manufacturing, 65 Margaret Street, London, UK, W1
Victim: 1 (Jeanne-Marie Cotton, also Marie or Jeanette Cousins)
This is Britain's least known and long forgotten serial killers

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0:28.3	The Future is Open The morning of Friday the 17th of April 1936 was deathly still, as a damp fog hung.
1:01.0	Drenched in somber silence, a small crowd bowed their heads, as down the staircase and through the street door of
1:12.1	47 Lexington Street, two men in mournful suits carried a black wooden coffin into the
1:20.3	back of a black waiting van.
1:42.3	Worded quickly spread across Soho that Jean-Marie Cotton had been murdered, strangled in her own flat, with her own scarf, in a motiveless attack by an unknown killer.
1:46.8	Fuelling the fire.
1:52.4	That day, Marie's murder was headline news in many national newspapers.
1:59.1	Hastily recycling any salacious tidbits, whether fact or false, to get the scoop.
2:00.9	Many like the Daily Mail and the Leicester Evening Mail both went with beautiful woman
2:06.7	murdered in Soho.
2:09.4	As it's faster and cheaper to copy and paste from a press release than it is to dispatch
2:14.4	a reporter to do their job. And having already connected a few of the dots,
2:21.3	the Nottingham Evening Post went with
2:24.3	Second Beauty slain in London.
2:31.3	The story of French Fethy was as dead and buried as her body.
2:39.5	But now, they had a reason to remember her.
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