#258 - Three Tiny Specks (Dr Joan Francisco, St John's Wood)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
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#258 - Three Tiny Specks.
On 26th December 1994, at 1pm, the body of 27-year-old Dr Joan Francisco was found in her basement flat at 13 Ordnance Hill. With the prime suspect being her ex-boyfriend, his conviction should have been imminent. Only this isn’t just a story about obsession, this is the tale of a family’s five-year battle for justice, with the evidence being missed owing to a fatal mistake.
- Date: Monday 26th December 1994, at 1pm (body found)
- Location: 13 Ordnance HIll, St John's Wood, London, Great Britain, NW8
- Victim: 1 (Dr Joan Sarah Francisco)
- Culprit: 1 (Anthony Diedrick)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, I'm standing on Ordnance Hill in St John's Wood, N.W. 8. |
| 0:21.6 | Three streets west of the first failed assassination by Carlos the Jackal. |
| 0:25.6 | Two streets north of the first possible victim of the Blackout Ripper |
| 0:30.6 | and four streets east of the seedy sex scandal of lusty Lord Lambton. Coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 0:43.4 | Ordnance Hill is a middle-class street full of four-story Georgian terraces. With many split into flats, |
| 0:52.6 | it seems odd that anyone would move into a basement flat, as their only view must surely be feet. |
| 1:02.0 | But maybe that's the selling point. |
| 1:05.0 | Basement flats are a foot fetishist must. |
| 1:09.0 | Where they go crazy for cancles, flip out over foot cheese, go |
| 1:14.5 | foo-or over corn plasters, and get a major boner for bunions. Everyone has obsessive tendencies, |
| 1:25.9 | and for many it's nothing but a bit of harmless fun. |
| 1:30.3 | But for one man, his obsession for a woman, he claimed he no longer loved, would lead to murder. |
| 1:41.3 | On the 26th of December 1994, at 1pm, the body of 27-year-old Dr. Joan Francisco was found in her basement flat at 13 Ordinance Hill. |
| 1:54.0 | With a prime suspect being her ex-boyfriend who had a history of stalking her. His conviction should have been imminent. |
| 2:04.8 | Only this isn't just a story about obsession. This is the tale of a family's five-year |
| 2:11.2 | battle for justice, with the evidence having been missed owing to a fatal mistake. |
| 2:19.1 | My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
| 2:26.6 | Episode 258, Three Tiny Specks. |
| 2:44.0 | Thank you. Spex. Joan was an exceptional woman. |
| 2:46.0 | Born on the 27th of January in 1967, in Westminster, West London, |
| 2:53.6 | Joan Sarah Francisco was one of three sisters to their father, Alfred, and their mother, Venus. |
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