#259 - The Lone Hand of Terror (Shepherd's Bush, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 20 June 2024
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Summary
#259 - The Lone Hand of Terror.
In the evening of Friday 1st April 1949, in the top floor flat at 32 Davisville Road in Shepherd’s Bush, W12, 38-year-old wife Mary Cooper was found murdered under her bed by her 14-year-old daughter. It seemed like an ordinary domestic, but a much darker secret was hidden behind those doors, one which would lead to this murder.
- Date: Friday 1st April 1949 at roughly 8pm (discoveries)
- Location: 32 Davisville Road in Shepherd’s Bush, London, England, W12
- Victim: 1 (Mary Cooper nee Fordham)
- Culprit: 1 (Bernard Alfred Peter Cooper)
- Method: strangulation, rape
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, I'm standing on Davisville Road and Shepers Bush W12. |
| 0:18.0 | Four streets east of the shoebox killer. |
| 0:22.6 | Two roads south of where Reg Christie euthanized his dog. |
| 0:26.6 | Two roads southwest of the beast. |
| 0:29.6 | And one road north of the cold-blooded killer with nothing to lose. |
| 0:35.6 | Coming soon to murder mile. |
| 0:42.4 | 32 Davisville Road is an ordinary house on an unremarkable street. |
| 0:49.4 | Built in the Victorian era, this three-story house was once separated into flats, and behind |
| 0:56.4 | each door many secrets may lurk, especially around the old SEX, such as Dad's Dirty DVD |
| 1:06.6 | of Susie Mellons meets the Whopper Chopper. |
| 1:10.5 | Mums' special pets, being two rabbits, a moose knuckle and a black mamba. |
| 1:16.6 | A daughter who denies being on the pill, but every time she pees, a swan goes infertile. |
| 1:23.6 | And a teenage son, with so many crinkly Kleenecks under his mattress |
| 1:28.3 | that if you knock the legs off his bed, it would be the same height of the floor. |
| 1:36.3 | Everybody is secrets. |
| 1:38.3 | But some secrets are so dark that it makes sense for them to remain hidden. |
| 1:45.0 | In the spring of 1949, the top floor flat at 32 Davisville Road was the home of 40-year-old |
| 1:54.0 | Bernard Cooper, his 38-year-old wife Mary and their two children. |
| 2:00.0 | To many, they seem like a typical but dysfunctional working class family who were struggling |
| 2:06.1 | to make ends meet. |
| 2:08.4 | And although Bernard's crimes were known, a much darker secret was hidden behind those doors, |
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