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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#242 - Meticulous - Part Four (The Disposal, Chiswick, 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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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This is Part Four of Four of Meticulous.


On Thursday 2nd January 1969 at 10:30am, Alec Vanags got off the train to Mitcham carrying a large and unwieldy cardboard box, which weighing 12lbs or 5.4kgs, roughly the same as a sack of spuds. His suit was unusually scruffy and his hands were covered in dirt, and with his back starting to hurt, he went to the storage lockers, popped in a shilling, and into Locker 424, he placed the box. Inside was hidden the decapitated head of his girlfriend, Nora. But why?


  • Date: Sunday 29th December 1969
  • Location: Kendal, Sutton Lane North, Chiswick, London, Britain, W4
  • Victim: 1 (Elenora Essens)
  • Culprit: 1 (Alexsander Leonard Vanags)
  • Method: bludgeoning, dismembering, disposal


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0:00.0

Thursday the 2nd January, 1969, at 10.m.

0:17.0

Victoria Station.

0:28.3

Through the turnstile, Alec Yannock departed the train, blending in amongst the families,

0:29.6

shoppers and commuters.

0:38.3

Dressed in a once neat, now slightly shabby suit, although it was bitterly cold outside. He wiped a bead of sweat from his furrowed brow with a dirt sodden hand,

0:43.3

as pain ripped across his face.

0:49.3

His injured back was arched and aching,

0:52.3

as with his one good eye red raw with exhaustion

0:56.1

and tears.

0:58.5

In his arms he grappled with an unwieldy cardboard box which was clutched to his chest.

1:07.5

Weighing twelve pounds or five point four kilos, roughly the same as Asaka Spuds.

1:13.6

Alec Yannix was a man out of his depth, as although he was famously meticulous when it came to research in military aircraft.

1:22.6

Faced with the task of disposing of a dead body, or at least part of a dead body.

1:29.3

He hadn't a clue what to do or how to do it.

1:37.3

I wanted to get rid of it quickly, Alec confessed.

1:41.3

So I got the train to Mitch him.

1:43.3

I went to some woods near there and realised I couldn't

1:47.7

scrape a hole with my hands. So he returned, still carrying the head. With the Vox too heavy

1:56.8

to carry home, he popped it in a 24-hour locker number 44 and locked it.

2:06.6

I was glad to get rid of it. I felt it was evil.

2:11.6

But he knew he would have to return to it soon.

2:19.7

The police mistakenly believed that the murderer of Eleanor Essence was a monster.

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