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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#332 - The Ealing Crossbow Killer (Diana Maw, Jane Salveson, London, W5)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday the 20th of July 1988, at 8am, 36-year-old business executive Diana Mam exited her flat at Stanley Court. Dressed in a smart green suit and stockings, she placed her handbag and briefcase on the floor, and as she locked the door, she applied a final coat of lipstick, ready for a busy day ahead. Only she never made it to work, she never made it to her car, she didn’t even make it from her door. Who killed her and why?


  • Location: Flat 24, Second Floor, 1 Woodfield Road, Ealing, London, W5, UK 
  • Date: Wednesday the 20th of July 1988 at 8am (time of murder)
  • Victims: Diana Stafford Maw
  • Culprit: Jane Frances Salveson (accused but acquitted)


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0:00.0

Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about.

0:08.2

Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com.

0:13.2

How can a statistic killing be both unsolved and some say solved?

0:19.2

Find out on Murder Mile.

0:24.6

Thank you. and some say solved. Find out on Murder Mile. Today, I'm standing on Woodfield Road in Ealing, W-5.

0:30.6

4 streets north of the home of Alice Cross's killer.

0:34.6

5 streets west of the brutal murder of Penny Bell,

0:38.3

four streets northwest of the penultimate attack by the beast, and three streets south,

0:44.3

of the custard eating knots, coming soon to murder mile.

0:53.3

In a leafy enclave of Ealing near Montpellier Park sits Stanley Court.

0:58.0

A block of 32, brown-bricked self-contained flats built in the 1930s to cater for the West London Bachelors.

1:06.0

Back then, being fitted with a double bed, a modest kitchenette, and a soft sofa for savouring

1:12.9

one's leisure time.

1:15.4

The ambience wasn't sullied by the ear-shattering wail of ungrateful brats in need of a good

1:20.1

slap, the fetid stench of sole nappies, and every surface being spattered with all manner

1:26.6

of body fluids fluids and jam,

1:29.6

as their sexless, broken and eternally knackered parents cut the years until they can finally get out, flee, or just get divorced.

1:39.4

Oh yes, tell me how having a child is a magical experience, and when you finished, tell your face.

1:47.0

In 1988, with greater and necessary changes in equality laws, several professionals who lived at Stanley Court were women,

1:57.0

career girls who assured marriage and babies for the independence to plough a furrow as a high-flying executive with her own flat, car and future.

2:06.6

One woman was 36-year-old Diana Moore, a recruitment consultant who'd done everything right in her life.

2:14.6

She was well liked, kind, popular popular and she never made a single enemy.

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