#206 - The Soho Strangler - Part Ten 'Norman Stephenson the Serial Strangler' (Soho, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This is Part Ten of Ten of The Soho Strangler. At the crime-scene of ‘French Marie’s murder, the culprit had left his fingerprints. At the pub and a nearby market, he was seen with the victim, just hours before ethe murder, by at least twenty eye-witnesses, some of whom he had spoken to, even giving them details about his life. As the case stalled, once again, a strangler had vanished into thin air, and the murders would stop… but only in Soho. The Soho Strangler is Britain's least known serial killer.
300 miles north of London, another murder and an attempted murder or two prostitutes in very similar circumstances would lead the Police to a very likely suspect in the murder of French Marie.
But was he The Soho Strangler?
- Date: Monday 16th August 1937
- Location: 2nd Floor, 306 Euston Road, NW1 (now demolished)
- Victim: 1 (Lottie Asterley, alias 'French Marie/Suzette')
- This is Britain's least known / long forgotten serial killer
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| 0:00.0 | The investigation was led by Chief Inspector Drew of the CID, who had overseen the murders of French Fifi, Marie Cotton, Dutch Leia and Red Max, |
| 0:25.9 | and would confirm this is the case of murder. |
| 0:34.0 | As before, there was no struggle, robbery or assault. |
| 0:38.3 | With a timeline of events, as clear as the day itself, |
| 0:43.3 | the evidence as irrefutable as dust, |
| 0:47.3 | and an embarrassment of eyewitnesses who had seen and spoken to her killer |
| 0:52.3 | face to face from just a few inches away. |
| 0:57.0 | There was no mystery as to who had murdered her. |
| 1:04.0 | A composite description was compiled by the witnesses. |
| 1:08.0 | He was aged 24 to 30, 5'3 to 5'4, thin to medium built, a roundish pasty face, |
| 1:16.6 | a ruddy complexion, blue eyes, brown brushback hair, a dark brownish scruffy suit, |
| 1:23.6 | and no hat. |
| 1:34.3 | That same man was seen with the victim at the Adam and Eve pub at Seton Place Market, |
| 1:37.3 | and then at 4pm. |
| 1:40.3 | Both were seen by the tenants of the building, entering her second floor flat at 306 Euston Road. |
| 1:49.0 | Dr. Alexander Burnie confirmed by in situ examination |
| 1:54.0 | that her time of death was 4pm to 5pm. |
| 2:08.6 | Eva and Kaufman Schladeva, living one floor above, saw that same man from their window walk into Bathrow and InterEuston Road at roughly 5.30pm. |
| 2:15.6 | And no one was seen to enter or exit her room until at 6pm, as established by the |
| 2:22.5 | scent factory whistle, when they extinguished the fire and found Marie. |
| 2:33.4 | With the police report stating, |
| 2:35.0 | There is no doubt that the murderer was a chance pick-up in a public house. |
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