#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. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, I'm standing on Finborough Road in Fulham, S.W. 10. |
| 0:18.0 | Three streets southwest of the beating of Gunter-Pedola. |
| 0:23.6 | A tube stops south of John George Hague's bubbling drum. |
| 0:28.1 | Two doors down from the woman in red, |
| 0:31.1 | and one street east of the lynchic of the last fighter. |
| 0:35.6 | Coming soon to Murdema. |
| 0:42.3 | Opposite Brompton Cemetery sits 13, Finborough Road. |
| 0:49.3 | One of 10, five-story Victorian terraces in a block, |
| 0:53.3 | with fake Doric columns around the door, and its stucco |
| 0:56.8 | painted white, as if the house was hand-chiseled from marble, like a Greek god's buttocks, |
| 1:03.8 | flexing majestically as if to lure the inhabitants of Lesbos. |
| 1:10.4 | The last time I stood here, a man living in the flat where the woman in Red's body smashed |
| 1:16.0 | onto the steps below, glared at me, as I told his grinning neighbour about the murder in his |
| 1:22.5 | flat. |
| 1:24.4 | And although a hint of one-upmanship permeated her lips, |
| 1:28.3 | Today, sorry, Mrs. |
| 1:31.3 | But your house is equally as bloody. |
| 1:35.3 | The basement flat was the home of 25-year-old Gertrude Yates, |
| 1:41.3 | a high-class call girl who was smart, well-liked and polite. |
| 1:47.7 | Her preferred clients were titled gentlemen and men of rank, who could treat her to the finer things in life that she felt that she deserved. |
| 1:58.7 | But on the morning of Monday, the 6th of March, 1922, |
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