#204 - The Soho Strangler - Part Eight 'Roger the Strangler's Slayer' (Soho, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This is Part Eight of Ten of The Soho Strangler.
On Thursday 23rd January 1936 at 6:50pm, Red Max entered 35/36 Little Newport Street, the lodging of a petite French brunette known as ‘French Suzette’, who was the mistress of his rival, Roger Vernon. Within half an hour, there would be another killing in Soho. But was this the work of The Soho Strangler?
- Date: Thursday 23rd January 1936 from 6:50pm
- Location: 2nd Floor, 35-36 Little Newport Street (Now 11 Newport Place), W1
- Victim: 1 (Meier Kassel, alias 'Red Max')
- Culprit: 1 (Roger Marcel Vernon, alias Charles Edward Lacroix)
- This is Britain's least known and long forgotten serial killer
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| 0:00.0 | At 6.50pm, Red Max rang the doorbell of 35 to 36 little Newport Street. |
| 0:22.3 | The lodging of a petite French brunette, unnervingly similar to the other three victims, who |
| 0:29.2 | was known as French Z. He didn't wear a disguise, or bring a weapon, as Max's power was |
| 0:40.6 | his stranglehold and so-ho. A place so in fear, he could kill in plain sight and disappear |
| 0:50.1 | into a busy city street, as no one dared to speak his name. Unlocked by the prostitute's |
| 1:00.8 | terrified maid, as with Fifi, Marie and Leia, the street door led up a tight stair, as |
| 1:09.4 | his heavy boots thudded up to this soon to be crime scene of another killing. By the time |
| 1:21.7 | the police would arrive, the room would be cleaned, the evidence erased, the witness |
| 1:28.4 | is silenced, and the killer unseen. Many have speculated that the so-ho strangler wasn't |
| 1:42.8 | the work of a sadistic serial killer, or a series of copycat killings, but a white |
| 1:49.9 | slave, sending a message to his pimps, girls and ponces. And now, just a few streets south |
| 2:00.2 | of the murders of Fifi, Marie and Leia, a rifle crime boss, was dead. |
| 2:15.5 | Roger Marcel Verne was born on the 4th of January 1901, in Fontaineux, Cevoir, a pleasant |
| 2:22.9 | suburb on the outskirts of Paris. His father was a postal official, his mother was a housewife, |
| 2:31.7 | and coming from a good hard work in family, although he was educated and cultured, Roger |
| 2:38.1 | wanted more. |
| 2:42.4 | Nignamed Petit Georges, owing to his small stature, Roger was a thin, slightly-built man, |
| 2:50.3 | barely five foot high in heels, who wore very expensive, exquisitely-tailed suits, to hide |
| 2:56.9 | the fact that they were child-sized. And although, with dark, slicked-down hair, a florler's |
| 3:05.4 | face, an often-wearing and natty little bow tie, many mistook him for a little boy dressed |
| 3:12.3 | in his Sunday best, but in truth, he was an angel-faced killer. |
| 3:22.7 | Like a little highland terrier, Roger could become loyal and intensely smart, but burdened |
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