#233 - Sketches (Marylebone, London, Britain)

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

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#233 - Sketches. At 5:15am, on the Boxing Day morning of 1948, cartoonist Harry Michaelson was found on his doorstep of Flat 75 at Fursecroft in Marylebone, nursing a bloody wound to his head. With no memory of what had happened, the police relied on the evidence. But having made a lazy assumption, they almost derailed the entire investigation.

Date: 26th December 1948, at 5:15am (discovered)
Location: Fursecroft, George Street, Marylebone, London, England, W1
Victim: 1 (Harry Michaelson)
Culprit: 1 (Harry Lewis)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:11.0	Today, I'm standing on George Street in Marlebone W1.
0:20.0	One street south of the first killing by the Blackout Ripper. George Street in Marlebone W1.
0:21.6	One street south of the first killing by the Blackout Ripper.
0:25.6	Two streets east of the failed hit on the exiled Iraqi general.
0:30.6	A few doors down from the deaf son's desperate mum.
0:34.6	And a few doors up from Dot the Deadly, coming soon to Murder Mile.
0:47.3	Built in the 1930s, Furscroft is a posh ten-story Edwardian mansion block.
0:58.0	The kind you'd expect to see in an episode of Poirot,
1:07.0	where for 90 minutes, the infamous Belgian detective, twist his little moustache and jiggles a little grey cells, all the while dreaming of waffles, chocolate, tin tin and moulet fritz, as what else the Belgians do?
1:14.6	Only to conclude that,
1:17.6	dun dun dun!
1:20.6	The killer was the slutty bigamist.
1:24.6	Again. slutty bigamist again. And yet, Marley Bone's own detectives almost failed to solve a simple
1:36.4	case owing to an assumption. On the Boxing Day morning of 1948,
1:45.6	50-year-old Harry Michelson was found on his doorstep at flat 75.
1:52.2	With a towel to his forehead, blood running down his face,
1:56.6	and no memory of what had occurred.
1:59.5	With no signs of forced entry,
2:02.3	the police assumed they were hunting an assailant
2:05.0	who Harry had let in.
2:08.4	And although they had supposedly interrogated every detail
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