#248 - The Creeper (Euston, London, England)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
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Summary
#248 - The Creeper.
On Monday 15th January 1945 at 12:15am, a Dutch seaman called Jan Pureveen was murdered at Fred White’s coffee stall on Euston Road. It was a brutal and unprovoked attack which came out of nowhere, and yet, it was both expected and unexpected, as the killer was already known to the police as ‘The Creeper’.
- Date: Monday 15th January 1945 at 12:15am
- Location: outside of the (former) Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital, 130 Euston Road, London, England, NW1 (where the shooting and death of Jan Pureveen took place)
- Victim: 1 (Jan Bernardus Pureveen)
- Culprit: 1 (Phillip Berry alias 'The Creeper')
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:12.9 | Today, I'm standing on Houston Road, NW1. |
| 0:18.7 | One street west of the Camden Ripper's pick-up place. Two roads south of Paula |
| 0:24.0 | Fields' dismembered body parts. One street north of the Sadface Killer's last sleep, and |
| 0:31.3 | a short walk from the despicable deadbeat who drilled. Coming soon to murder mile. |
| 0:43.3 | Situated at 137-1-139, Euston Road in Kingscross, |
| 0:48.3 | currently stands the Travel Lodge. |
| 0:52.3 | Like most chain hotels, |
| 0:56.2 | the complementary coffee in the rooms |
| 0:58.1 | will undoubtedly be bad. |
| 1:01.1 | It always is. |
| 1:03.3 | Being cheap, oh crap, |
| 1:05.0 | which tastes like it's been scraped off of baboon's backside. |
| 1:08.9 | With a single serving of milk, |
| 1:11.6 | so mean, I'd be better off suckling on a mouse's teat. |
| 1:14.6 | And with just two biscuits, |
| 1:17.6 | yes, two. |
| 1:18.6 | Either they don't want me to have a nice time, |
| 1:21.6 | or they don't think I'm a man, |
| 1:23.6 | but a Chihuahua on Hunger Strike. |
| 1:29.3 | Thankfully, back in 1945, on the grand floor stood an all-night coffee stall which was |
| 1:35.3 | owned by Fred White, a place where during the wartime blackout, servicemen and civilians |
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