meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Murder Mile UK True Crime

#336 - Strange Last Days (Karoline Getta Jones, Kilburn, NW6)

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

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Wednesday 10th of April 1940 at 10.15am, Alfred Scott, a surveyor for Bates & Co, an estate agents in Kilburn entered 21 Brondesbury Villas, to check that the premises was empty. Inside, he found that the first floor flat had been ransacked, two bags (a Gladstone and an attache case) had been searched for a specific item, and the tenant, 60-year-old Karoline Jones had been murdered. But what were they looking for?


  • Location: first floor, 21 Brondesbury Villas, Kilburn, London, NW6, UK 
  • Date: Wednesday 10th of April 1940 at 10.15am (body found)
  • Victims: Karoline Getta Jones
  • Culprit: 


Five time nominated at the True Crime Awards, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.


TRUE CRIME FEST CANCELED. Sorry.


Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA

·      Instagram

·      FaceBook

·      Threads

 

SUBSCRIBE via Patreon

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.

0:13.6

Did the killer of Caroline Jones leave a clue to their identity by her body?

0:19.3

Find out of Murder Mile.

0:31.6

Yeah. identity by her body. Find out on Murder Mile. Today I'm standing on Bronzebury Villas in Kilburn, NW6. Three roads south of Jimmer Mitchell and the Grizzly suitcase of death.

0:36.6

Four roads northwest of Michael

0:38.7

Dowdzel, the sadistic little drummer boy, four streets west of the ill-fated first assassination

0:45.0

attempt by the so-called professional terrorist Carlos the Jackal, and two streets east of the

0:51.2

fat dog who ate all the diamonds, coming soon to Murder Mile.

0:58.5

Just off the busy Kilburn High Road sits 21 Bronsbury Villas, a white, flat-fronted,

1:04.4

semi-detached late Victorian townhouse on a quiet residential street dotted with an occasional

1:10.2

tree but no signs of life.

1:13.6

Unlike the other houses, its door isn't bedecked with a pretentious Doric column,

1:19.6

but with all of them being identically built, every floor is slightly off.

1:24.6

As with a set of steps taking you up to the ground floor, the bottom floor

1:29.7

isn't below the earth, but half-way up, giving its occupants a brief hint of light once

1:35.3

a day, a stunning view of the dog-plops on the pavement, but mostly the right to call their

1:40.6

grottie little basement flat, lower ground. Rather than the dungeon, the hellhole, the damp bit, the closet, or where dad stashes his jazz

1:49.6

max.

1:53.1

Back in 1940, this house was subdivided into four flats.

1:58.2

With a couple in the basement, a family above them, a lodger on the top floor, and in the

2:03.3

first floor mazinet, a woman whose life as a refugee, a widow, a mother, a loner, a recently

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.