#24 - Canal Killers John Sweeney - Part 2 (Melissa Halstead, Kings Cross, N1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 5 April 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
PART 2 OF 2: On 19th February 2001, ten dismembered body-parts of an unidentified woman were found submerged in the Regent's Canal, in a sickening attacked which matched that of a headless torso found in a Rotterdam Canal a decade earlier. But who were they? And what connected them?
- Date: Monday 19th February 2015
- Location: Regent's Canal / Battlebridge Basin, Kings Cross, London, N1
- Victims: 1 (Melissa Halstead & Paula Fields)
- Culprit: John Sweeney
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:08.8 | A true crime podcast and audio-guided walk |
| 0:11.8 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders. |
| 0:17.6 | All set within one of three square miles. Ooh. Today's episode is the conclusion to the story of |
| 0:28.1 | John Sweeney. An abusive, violent and dangerously disturbed man whose drug-fueled paranoia and |
| 0:36.3 | insane jealousy of his girlfriends, led to a bloody |
| 0:40.2 | trail of body parts across Europe. The full extent of his brutality remains a mystery, even to |
| 0:47.4 | this day. Murder Mile contains graphic details of abuse, torture and death, which may offend, as well as realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:06.3 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:15.1 | Episode 24, Canal Killers, John Sweeney, Part 2. |
| 1:25.7 | Today, I'm not within one square mile of Soho, Paddington, Kingscross, or even the Regents Canal. |
| 1:36.3 | I'm 256 miles away in Holland's beautiful capital city of Amsterdam. |
| 1:42.3 | A coastal city crammed full of architectural marvels from the medieval times to the modern age, |
| 1:49.0 | crisscrossed by laid-back cycleways, stunning bridges and interconnected by an intricate canal system. |
| 1:56.0 | Unlike stuffy old London, Amsterdam is so liberal. Not only is it chock full of history and high art, |
| 2:04.3 | but it also has three museums dedicated to prostitution, procreation and penises. And also, |
| 2:13.9 | I'm guessing, a kids cannabis creche, a dildo recycling service, six streets named |
| 2:20.9 | after syphilitic sailors, a free orgasm vending machine, a shop which sells willy warmers |
| 2:27.7 | woven from old pubs, and a publicly funded institute promoting the complete history of the anus. |
| 2:36.6 | And as I sit outside a snowy cafe, chomping on pancakes, supping on wheat beers, and toking on an entirely legal spliff, |
| 2:47.0 | although I'm nowhere near Battlebridge Basin, where on the 19th of February 2001, 10 dismembered body parts of John Sweeney's ex-girlfriend were found submerged in the region's canal. |
| 2:59.9 | This is where the last episode ended and where the new episode begins. |
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