#262 - Guns, Girls and Glamour (Soho, London)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
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Summary
#262 - Guns, Girls and Glamour.
On Tuesday 21st of March 1972, at 7:15pm, two businessmen (Joe Wilkins and Wally Birch) were shot in the reception of Glamour International at 61-63 Beak Street in Soho. But was that a warning, mistaken identity, or a failed hit?
- Wally Birch, Joe Wilkins & Pearl Wilkins,
- 61-63 Beak Street in Soho, London, England, W1
- On Tuesday 21st of March 1972
- Method of death: shooting
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, I'm standing on Beak Street in Soho W-1, |
| 0:20.0 | five doors east of the Soho Strangler's second victim, |
| 0:25.0 | three doors west of William Stoltz's penile dismemberment, |
| 0:29.6 | opposite the last sighting of Ginger Ray in the Sun and Thirteen Canton's pub, |
| 0:34.8 | and the death of the one-legged deadbeat coming soon to murder mile just shy of |
| 0:46.1 | carnaby street sits 61 to 63 Beak Street a five-story business premises which is now sitting dormant. |
| 0:55.0 | In the hundred years since this building has stood, |
| 0:59.0 | it's been a bar, a restaurant, a nightclub, a gallery, a newsagents, a fishmongers, a brothel, a film company, a porn distributors, and even a coffin makers. No one lasts long here. |
| 1:13.6 | It's almost as if some meat has been left behind the radiated to Fester. |
| 1:18.6 | The place has been infested with rodents, |
| 1:21.6 | or the spectra of crime and corruption hangs over it like a foul stink. |
| 1:30.3 | Back in 1972, this was the home of Glamour International, an exclusive West End escort |
| 1:37.3 | agency which supplied a slew of beautiful girls for wealthy businessmen to take out to dinner |
| 1:43.3 | and nothing else. |
| 1:47.0 | According to its unnamed owners, it wasn't a brothel, it wasn't a front. The women |
| 1:53.0 | weren't prostitutes and the bosses weren't corrupt. It was just a legitimate business, |
| 2:00.0 | unfairly targeted by hired assassins. |
| 2:05.8 | On Tuesday the 21st of March, 1978 at 7.15 p.m., two businessmen, Joe Wilkins and |
| 2:13.6 | Wally Birch, were shot in the reception of Glamour International. |
| 2:19.3 | But was that a warning, mistaken identity, or a failed hit? |
| 2:26.7 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
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