#315 - The Twilight Sex Killer - Part Two (Alan Vigar, Pimlico, SW1)

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This is Part Two of Two of The Twilight Sex Killer.

On Monday 19th of February 1962, the same day that Norman Rickard’s body was found, 23-year-old Alan Vigar, who was also a quiet, handsome and secretly-gay man was strangled to death in the privacy of his flat by a tall and attractive man that the Police believe he too had picked up in Piccadilly Circus. Both men had invited their killer in, undressed, willingly been tied up and asphyxiated as part of this sex play. The press dubbed him the Twilight Sex Killer. But who was he?

· Location: first floor (front), 29 St George’s Drive, Pimlico, London, UK, SW1

· Date: Tuesday 20th of February 1962, body found

· Victims: Alan John Vigar

· Culprits: ?

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0:33.0	So who was the Twilight Sex Killer?
0:35.7	Find out on Murder Mile.
0:44.3	Yeah. So who was the Twilight sex killer? Find out on Murder Mile. Today I'm standing on St George's Drive in Pimlico S.W. 1. Four streets southeast of Maggie's
0:50.9	fall. Two streets west of Martha Browning's deadly alibi, four streets east of
0:56.0	the woman in red, and yet a full three and a half miles south of the murderer of Norman Rickard,
1:02.9	as covered last week on Murder Mile.
1:07.7	At 29 St George's Drive stands yet another five-story Mid-Victorian terraced house on the corner of a busy street
1:15.3	and just a short walk from a tube station, not dissimilar to Normans.
1:21.5	Today it's an affordably priced hotel for city breakers called the 29,
1:26.2	with good showers so you can scrub away the London
1:29.4	filth, and soft beds, so you can cry yourself to sleep, having been fleeced in London, Europe's
1:35.9	biggest rip-off. Yet if true crime is your thing, the front first-floor room was once
1:43.4	the scene of a little-known sex
1:44.9	killer. On Monday the 19th of February, 1962, the same day that Norman Rickett's body was
1:52.9	found. 23-year-old Alan Vigar, who was also a quiet, handsome and secretly gay man, was strangled
2:00.0	to death in the privacy of his own
2:01.7	flat by a tall and attractive man that the police believed he had picked up in Piccadilly
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