#215 - The Woman in Red - Part Two of Two (West Brompton, London)

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This is Part Two of Two of The Woman in Red.

At 5:40am on Thursday 6th May 1948, on the basement steps of 17 Finborough Road in West Brompton, the broken body of 26-year-old part time waitress and prostitute Winifred Mulholland was found.

The Police initially assumed that she had been murdered elsewhere and dumped here, as no killer would be so bold, brazen or bonkers as to dump a murder victim’s body outside of their own home, almost like a grisly calling card or a callous confession to the heinous crime of killing a lone prostitute but as the Police swarmed and the neighbours congregated, along the street every curtain was open, every house-light was on, and every tenant was gossiping ten-to-the-dozen, except one.

Date: Thursday 6th May 1948
Location: 1st Floor, 17 Finborough Road, West Brompton, SW10
Victim: 1 (Winifred Virginia Mulholland)
Culprit: 1 (George Cyril Epton)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:12.0	On Thursday the 6th of May at 5.40 a.m.
0:22.6	As Albert Stamp strode down Finnsborough Road towards his place of work at Earl's Court Station,
0:29.1	he spotted the stocking defeat of a crumpled body, dumped upon the stone steps.
0:38.8	Found outside of a five-story,
0:41.3	white stone terrace at 17 Finsborough Road,
0:44.6	it was a place that 26-year-old Winifred, Virginia Mulholland, didn't belong.
0:51.9	And no one knew how she'd got there. But here lay her folded and broken body on the
0:58.9	basement steps, amongst the household waste and refuse bins. The post-mortem confirmed several vital details about Virginia's death.
1:18.9	She'd initially been attacked a few days prior, but she hadn't died until a few hours
1:25.6	before her body was found, meaning this semi-conscious, or fully comitou's lady, had lain motionless for at least three days.
1:40.3	Sustaining four injuries to her head and face. Death had occurred slowly and painfully.
1:47.0	Having been struck with a heavy blunt object,
1:50.0	later discovered to be a flat iron, weighing close to a kilo,
1:55.0	which shattered her skull, lacerated her brain,
1:59.0	and caused extensive hemorrhages, paralysis and unconsciousness.
2:03.6	And possibly, while she was collapsed, her attacker had struck her three times across the cheeks with a hammer.
2:14.6	One stead, she was dragged a short distance. with a hammer.
2:24.3	One stead, she was dragged a short distance from where she had lain for three days.
2:30.3	With her clothes, a red dress, a white blouse, and a rabbit's fur coat,
2:37.0	spattered with long lines of blood droplets, which had splashed at the moment of impact from her bloodied head and face. And although a handback containing a purse, an ID,
2:45.0	and a red diary was near, her red-heeled sling back shoes were missing.
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