#268 - The Savaged 'Prince' (Shepherd's Bush, London, UK)

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🗓️ 26 September 2024

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#268 - The Savaged 'Prince'.

On the evening of Monday 18th of September 1989, 40-year-old Christoph Schliack, an eccentric German who many only knew as 'The Prince' left the White Horse pub with two men. 30 minutes later, he would be brutally stabbed to death. But why? Was it political, personal, was it a robbery, or was it a known homosexual?

Date: Monday 18th of September 1989 at roughly 10pm
Locations: First floor flat, 52 Coverdale Road, Shepherd's Bush, W12
Victim: 1 (Christoph Schliack)
Culprit: 1 (Kenneth Hamilton)
Method: sadistic stabbing

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:10.0	Today, I'm standing on Coverdale Road in Shepard's Bush W12.
0:18.0	Two streets east of the child rapist known as the beast.
0:23.2	One street south of the first date killer's last takeaway.
0:27.7	Three streets west of the crazed shoebox killer.
0:31.6	And two streets north of the bad booze bandit.
0:35.7	Coming soon to Murder Mile.
0:41.5	Situated opposite the old Shepherdsbush police station, Covedell Road is a quiet residential street
0:48.0	lined with four-story terraced houses from the mid-1800s. Seemingly crime-free.
0:56.0	It's the kind of place which claims to have no drunks, just passionate wine connoisseurs.
1:02.0	No pornographers. Only everyone is an expert in artie lithographs.
1:08.0	And no drug addicts.
1:10.0	Although every yummyummy spends all day
1:13.6	pye-e-done lithium and injects wheatgrass up her jack-sea as Gwyneth Paltrow says it's fashionable.
1:24.6	This is a street with a mystery about a murder, which starts with a mystery itself.
1:30.3	Every article written about this case states the murder occurred at 150 Coverdale Road.
1:38.3	But the street only goes up to 60, it always has.
1:43.3	The real murder house was 52 Coverdale Road. only goes up to 60, it always has.
1:50.9	The real murder house was 52 Coverdale Road, in the first floor flat, in which in 1989, a 40-year-old eccentric homosexual and German exile, nicknamed the Prince, was murdered.
2:01.6	It was an odd case which almost collapsed owing to a lack of witnesses, a death of evidence,
2:08.6	a victim who was more myth than man, and although finally resolved, the killer's motive
2:15.6	still remains a mystery.
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