#221 - The Saviour (Maida Vale, London)

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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#221 - The Saviour. On Saturday 8th of October 1949, 27-year-old Denis Wilfred Barrett invited 19-year-old Kathleen Mary Rosam back to his lodging at 2 Shirland Road, W9. As a homeless girl who had resorted to prostitution to survive, he was desperate to save her from a fate worse than death... only, having witnessed unspeakable horrors, what he needed was saving from life.

Date: Saturday 8th of October at roughly 2:30am
Location: Second Floor, 2 Shirland Road, Maida Vale, W9 (demolished)
Victim: 1 (Kathleen Mary Rosam)
Culprit: 1 (Denis Wilfred Barrett)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:11.5	Today, I'm standing on Chialand Road of Little Venice W9.
0:20.0	Three streets southwest of Timothy Cotter, the 6th Street standing on Shireland Road of Little Venice W9.
0:27.3	Three streets south-west of Timothy Cotter, the 16-year-old killer convicted by his own mother,
0:34.8	two streets west of the scattered remains of Hannah Brown, one street north of the suitcase stuffed with Marta Ligman's body and a few miles downstream of the torso and legs that no one could identify.
0:45.3	Coming soon to murder mile.
0:53.3	At the back of the Grand Union Canal, since Charfield Court, a seven-story housing estate
1:00.0	from the 1970s, constructed of 105 unimaginatively identical flats made of glass and concrete,
1:09.0	it's possible that it was built as a police initiative to cut crime, by making it impossible
1:16.6	for any burglar to recall which flat was theirs.
1:23.6	Demolished during the 1960s slum clearances.
1:26.6	On this spot, at the corner of Formosa Road, one stood to Shireland Road,
1:33.3	a three-story Victorian lodging house, into which a quiet, inoffensive man called Dennis moved in.
1:41.3	Missing some much-needed love in his life. He had fallen for Kathleen. Dennis moved in.
1:44.2	Missing some much needed love in his life, he had fallen for Kathleen, a girl with no home,
1:51.4	no life, and what he saw was no future.
1:56.3	But desperate to save her from a fate worse than death. What she needed saving from was him.
2:06.2	My name is Michael. I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile.
2:14.1	Episode 221, The Saviour.
2:30.5	Few who knew him ever thought that Dennis was a type of man to commit a murder.
2:40.0	Born in the Irish city of Cork on the 12th of October 1922,
2:45.0	Dennis Wilfred Barrett was one of six siblings to two hard-working parents from a respectable family.
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