#245 - Good Girl, Gone (Bloomsbury, London, WC2)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
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#245 - Good Girl, Gone. On 18th of May 1942, 33-year-old part-time prostitute Jean Stafford welcomed a regular client into her room at 3 Bedford Place in Bloomsbury. Being shy and hating her job, she was hoping that a wealthy bachelor would sweep her off her. But later found dead, the detectives initially mistook her death for natural causes. But was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder?
- Date: 18th May 1942 between 9pm and 10pm
- Location: rear room, ground floor, 3 Bedford Place, Bloomsbury, London, England, WC2
- Victim: 1 (Jean Stafford, real name Agnes Martin)
- Culprit: 1 (unknown)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:11.0 | Today I'm standing on Bedford Place in Bloomsbury, WC1. |
| 0:19.0 | One Street east of Vera Crawford's killing. |
| 0:24.3 | One street south of where the unfortunate Mr. Johnson's killer took a snooze. |
| 0:29.5 | The same street as the arrest of Zachariah Buller |
| 0:32.6 | and a few houses from the feet which stank. |
| 0:38.3 | Coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 0:45.2 | Built in 1805, Bedford Place consists of two rows of Georgian townhouses, |
| 0:51.7 | with white stucco walls and black wrought iron railings on the ground floor, |
| 0:55.9 | with brown brick and white sills on the three floors above. |
| 1:01.6 | It's easy to get confused, as with every house looking identical, |
| 1:06.6 | the neighbour's lives must resemble a bawdy sex farce from the 1960s. |
| 1:12.5 | As several Randy salesmen kiss their frumpy wives, |
| 1:16.7 | dart next door to doinkers so as his strumpet silly, |
| 1:19.8 | only to realise that he's either boffed his wife, the vicar, a dog, |
| 1:25.9 | or knowing this neighbourhood, a tub of avocado and hummus sashimi. |
| 1:35.9 | On the night of Monday, the 18th of May, 1942, |
| 1:40.3 | 33 old part-time prostitute Jean Stafford |
| 1:43.3 | was waiting in her ground floor room, a three-bedford place for a man. |
| 1:51.0 | As a good woman, in a bad situation, she hoped that this potential husband would end her struggle and take away her misery. |
| 2:01.0 | And although this expecting guest arrived, |
| 2:05.0 | that night he erased her pain by ending her life. |
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