#333 - The Beast of Belvedere - Part One of Two
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This is Part One of Two of ‘The Beast of Belvedere’ by Murder Mile UK True Crime.
From April 1983 to July 1984, a series of sadistic sex attacks were perpetrated on women and young girls on trains or near train stations on three routes from Central London to the South-East of England and Kent, they were the Bexleyheath Line, the North Kent Line and the Dartford Loop. This prolific serial rapist never disguised his face, he attacked in broad daylight, and he stuck to the areas he knew so well. But who was he?
- Locations: Train on The Dartford Loop starting at Charing Cross, Waterloo East or London Bridge, and called at Hither Green, Lee, Mottingham, New Eltham, Sidcup, Albany Park, Bexley and Crayford. The Bexleyheath Line called at Lewisham, Blackheath, Kidbrooke, Eltham, Falconwood, Welling, Bexleyheath and Barnehurst. The North Kent at Lewisham, Blackheath, Charlton, Woolwich, Arsenal, Abbey Wood, Belvedere, Erith and Slade Green. As well as Birch Walk in Erith, Dartford station, Bursted Wood, Lesnes Abbey Woods, etc
- Date: April 1983 to July 1984
- Victims:unnamed
- Culprit: ?
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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. |
| 0:13.4 | How did a prolific serial rapist evade capture for so long? |
| 0:18.5 | Find out on Murder Mile. |
| 0:26.9 | Yeah. for so long. Find out on Murder Mile. Today, I'm back at Charing Cross Station, just off the strand, WC2. |
| 0:32.6 | The same street is the last confirmed sighting of the Savage Prince. |
| 0:36.3 | Just to the site of where the first possible |
| 0:38.4 | victim of the blackout ripper said farewell to her pal. The station where German tourist |
| 0:43.9 | Hyder Milk met her death as confessed by serial killer Patrick Mackay, and where a bag of laundry |
| 0:49.7 | and left luggage bled red, coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 1:00.0 | We don't appreciate how safe and clean our modern trains are, being heated, well lit, and ventilated open carriages |
| 1:04.0 | with every angle covered by cameras and communication cords for our safety. |
| 1:09.0 | I mean, yes, the standard commute is a horrific assault on the senses. |
| 1:14.6 | As the tone deaf play drum and bass with an annoying tini speaker, |
| 1:18.6 | the stench of the great unwashed smells like a flatulent wet dog soaked in puk. |
| 1:24.6 | Every surface is spattered with an ominous sticky residue from any number of foods or |
| 1:30.3 | orifices. An even a ten-minute journey requires you to be scrubbed clean with hot bleach. But it was once |
| 1:38.3 | a lot worse. The design and layout of the train carriages we have today are as a direct result of the terrifying and deadly incidents inflicted on our fellow passengers of the past, |
| 1:52.0 | especially on the three train lines covering this network, the North Kent line, the Bexley Heath Line, and the dreaded Dartford Loop. |
| 2:03.6 | As a busy series of train lines from central London, through the commuter belt of South East London |
| 2:08.6 | and well into Kent, the Dartford Loop was built in 1866 to alleviate congestion as the city expanded, |
| 2:16.6 | and it remains a vital part of this link today. |
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