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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#26 - The Blackout Ripper Part 2 (Evelyn Oatley)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

English, Society & Culture, London, True-crime, Documentary, History, Uk, Killer, True Crime, Crime, Murder, British

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🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Blackout Ripper Part 2: On 10th February 1942, 34 year old Evelyn Oatley was found strangled, posed and mutilated in her flat at 153 Wardour Street in a murder strangely similar to Evelyn Hamilton, just one night before. Was this coincidence, or was there a sadistic spree-killer on the loose in Soho?

  • Date: Monday 10th February 1942
  • Location: 153 Wardour Street (now demolished), Soho, London, W1
  • Victims: 1 (Evelyn Oatley)
  • Culprit: The Blackout Ripper


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Terms apply 18 plus subject to approval. One year into the Second World War, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the Nazi High Command sought to deplete, destroy and demoralize Britain with a series of devastating bombing raids,

1:06.0

beginning with what the Luftwaffe called Unter Nama Ceis Schlanger, or Operation Sea Snake.

1:13.0

A terrifying attack from the clouds,

1:16.0

so fast and so deadly,

1:18.0

that the British people referred to it

1:20.0

by the German word for lightning.

1:23.0

They called it the Blitz.

1:28.0

Between the 7th of September 1940 and the 11th of May 1941 German bombers rain down over 41,000 tons of high

1:38.0

explosives, incendiary devices and parachute mines onto Britain's industrial cities.

1:45.0

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1:50.0

and bring Britain to its knees.

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But amidst the smoky bombed out inferno of London's West End,

2:05.6

with a blackout in force, which plunged the suit-covered city into a perpetual darkness.

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