#255 - The 'Other' Ronald True (Fulham, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
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Summary
#255 - The 'Other' Ronald True.
The basement flat of 13A Finborough Road in Fulham was the home of 25-year-old Gertrude Yates, a high-class call-girl who was smart, well-liked and polite. But on the morning of Monday 6th March 1922, Gertrude was found beaten, gagged and strangled by her latest client – an Army Major who was called Ronald True. But who had really murdered her? Was it Ronald True, or was it the ‘other’ Ronald True?
- Date: Monday 6th March 1922 at roughly 8:30am (murdered)
- Location: 13A Finborough Road, Fulham, London, Britain, SW10
- Victim: 1 (Gertrude Yates alias Olive Young)
- Culprit: 1 ('Major' Ronald True)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. Today I'm standing. a Three streets southwest of the beating of Gunter Padola. |
| 0:23.7 | A tube stops south of John George Haig's bubbling drum. |
| 0:28.2 | Two doors down from the woman in red. |
| 0:31.1 | A one street east of the Lincheck of the Las Viter. |
| 0:36.0 | Coming soon to Murdema. |
| 0:40.0 | Opposite Bromton Cemetery, since 13, Finnborough Road. |
| 0:49.7 | One of 10, five-story Victorian terraces in a block, with fake doric columns around the door and |
| 0:56.2 | its stucco painted white, as if the house was hand-chisled from marble, like a Greek god's buttocks flexing majestically as if to lure the inhabitants |
| 1:07.0 | of Lesbos. |
| 1:10.9 | The last time I stood here, a man living in the flat where the woman in red's body smashed onto the steps below, glared at me, as I told his grinning neighbor about the murder in his flat. And although a hint of one-upmanship permeated her lips, |
| 1:29.2 | today, sorry Mrs, but your house is equally as bloody. |
| 1:35.0 | The basement flat was the home of 25 year old Gertrude Yates, |
| 1:42.0 | a high-less call girl who was smart, well-light and polite. |
| 1:48.2 | Her preferred clients were titled gentlemen and men of rank, who could treat it to the finer things in life that she felt that she deserved. |
| 1:57.0 | But on the morning of Monday the 6th of March 1922. |
| 2:03.0 | Gertrude was found beaten, gagged and strangled by a latest client. |
| 2:08.0 | An army major called Ronald True. But who had really murdered her? |
| 2:17.0 | Was it Ronald True? |
| 2:19.0 | Or was it the other, Ronald True? |
| 2:26.0 | My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
| 2:30.0 | Episode 255, the other Ronald True. Gertrude's life was as typical as many women in that era. |
| 2:50.0 | Gertrude's life was as typical as many women in that era. Born in August 1896, Gertrude Yates was the daughter of Lillian and Lionel Yates, a working-class |
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