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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#223 - "A Cripple for Life" (Westminster, London, UK)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

History, Society & Culture, True-crime, London, English, Uk, British, Murder, True Crime, Killer, Crime, Documentary

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

#223 - "A Cripple for Life". On Monday 27th of August 1923 at 12:45am, 18-month-old Dorothy Kaslofski drowned in the river Thames having been thrown from Westminster Bridge. Only she didn’t fall, she was thrown by her mother in an act of mercy, having been given some devastating news by a doctor that her daughter’s life wouldn’t be worth living. But was he wrong, had she misheard, or did was this a lie?


  • Date: Monday 27th of August 1923 at 12:45am
  • Location: Westminster Bridge, London, England, SW1
  • Victim: 1 (Dorothy Catherine Kaslofski)
  • Culprit: 1 (Ada Elizabeth Kaslofski)
  • Method: infanticide, child murder


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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder Mile.

0:15.5

Today, I'm standing on Westminster Bridge, SW1.

0:21.7

Three streets west of the assassination of Sir Michael O'Dwyer.

0:26.5

Four streets east of Thomas Meaney being mistaken for a tailor's dummy.

0:32.1

Four streets west of the odd excuse Martha Branning used to murder her elderly bedmate. On one street north of the odd excuse Martha Browning used to murder her elderly bedmate.

0:38.8

On one street north of the cruel ships captain, who couldn't fathom why he was going blind,

0:47.5

coming soon to murder mile.

0:53.4

Spanning the river Thames, from Waterloo to Big Ben,

0:57.0

Westminster Bridge is an 820 foot long, 85 foot wide, 7-arch cast iron structure completed in 1862.

1:08.0

Supposedly painted green.

1:11.6

To match the seats, our politicians' bone- idle bumps are perched on in the House of Commons.

1:17.6

If that is true, I'd expect to see this bridge, fiddling its expenses, banging rent boys, hoofing blow, sexing up weapons of mass destruction

1:30.5

dossiers, and voting to pump 50 million tonnes of raw shit into our waters, having first sold

1:38.5

their riverfront mansion.

1:43.5

Seen as the epitome of calmness, the river Thames belies its dangerous side,

1:50.7

as underneath its vast expanse of brown silt, in which visibility is zero,

1:57.0

sits a muddy bed of thick sludge, impossible to wade through.

2:01.6

Upon a nine mile an hour tide with deep undercurrents,

2:05.6

which can drag even the strongest swimmer under.

2:11.6

With a dead body removed from the River Thames roughly every six days,

2:15.6

some die by suicide, some fall by accident,

2:20.3

and some lives are lost as good Samaritans dive in to save those from their deaths.

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