#334 - The Beast of Belvedere - Part Two of Two (Allan Pearey)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This is Part Two 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: The Dartford Loop began 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 | The police were closing in. |
| 0:16.1 | But how was the Beast of Belvedere caught? |
| 0:18.9 | Find out on Murder Mile. |
| 0:28.6 | Yeah. the beast of Belvedere caught. Find out on Myrdemol. Situated to the side of Burstead Woods, just shy of Barnhurst station and overlooking a roundabout at the junctions of Ereth Road |
| 0:34.6 | and Barnhurst Road, set a tiny flat perched above a car showroom. |
| 0:40.3 | It wasn't the kind of place that anyone would choose to live, as there was no bed, sofa, telly, or any personal effects. |
| 0:48.3 | Just a kettle, a cup, an overflowing ashtray, a bin full of empty takeaway cartons and an electric heater. |
| 0:58.3 | With a bare bulb off, the room was ominously dark, so no one could see the occupant |
| 1:04.2 | who was sat at a desk by a window. Silent and still, their binoculars spying as streams of women and young girls walked by, unaware. |
| 1:16.6 | Into a logbook, the following was written. |
| 1:19.6 | Friday the 10th of August, 1984, 2pm, second shift. |
| 1:33.6 | For months, 21-year-old WPC Julie Edwards had been on observation duty. |
| 1:40.8 | A dull job split into eight hours as one of a team of officers keeping surveillance on 18 locations where the beast of Belvedere had struck, including Abbey Wood, Mottingham, Lee, |
| 1:46.6 | Hither Green, Birch Walk and Falconwood. For many long hours, she would patiently sit |
| 1:54.0 | and wait and watch, biding her time until a certain someone caught your eye. |
| 2:01.6 | And oddly, being just two miles south of Lesness Abbey Woods, this was not unlike his suspected hideout. |
| 2:12.6 | It had been a year since P.C. Clifford Thomas had stood on a thick brush of holly leaves, |
| 2:20.3 | heard a metal glink, and moving aside a sheet of corrugated iron, unearthed the 15-foot-by-three-foot |
| 2:27.3 | tunnel full of rapists' apparel. Situated between Bexley Heath and the North Kent lines, in the dead centre of the four square miles where he hunted his prey, |
| 2:39.7 | detested to avoid having found his lair and soon him. |
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