#348 - Undressing Jack the Stripper - Part B of D (Hammersmith Nudes; Hannah Tailford & Irene Lockwood)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
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This is Part B of D of Undressing Jack the Stripper, an eight part series made in conjunction with the True Crime Enthusiast podcast.
From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, the bodies of eight sex-workers (Elizabeth Figg, Gwynneth Rees, Hannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helen Barthelemy, Mary Fleming, Margaret McGowan and Bridget O’Hara) were found dumped in or near the River Thames in West London.
Panic spread that a sadistic serial killer was on the loose who targeted young petite brunettes; stripped and strangled them, dumped each body within weeks and streets of each other. Yet with not a single witness to his crimes, even though several suspects have since been named, with no convictions, it’s a series of killing which remains a mystery to this day.
After the success of their ten-part series, Parychopath: Two Side of Patrick MacKay, Mike at Murder Mile and Paul at the True Crime Enthusiast join forces once again to bring you an eight-part crossover series about one of Britain’s most infamous unsolved serial killing – Jack the Stripper.
This episode is about Hannah Tailford & Irene Lockwood.
- Location: London Corinthian Sailing Club, Hammersmith, London, W4
- Date: 2nd of February 1964 (body found)
- Victims: Hannah Tailford
- Location: Corney Reach, Hammersmith, London, W4
- Date: 8th of April 1964 (body found)
- Victims: Irene Lockwood
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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. |
| 0:30.6 | Everybody loves a good villain, and by the 1960s, Jack the stripper was synonymous as a sadistic serial killer of sex workers in West London. |
| 0:40.3 | His first two victims, Elizabeth Figg and Gwyneth Rees, were listed as unofficial, as with Figg most likely murdered by a client, and Rees' impossible to determine owing to her decomposition, |
| 0:44.3 | but thought by police to have died during a botched abortion. |
| 0:47.3 | Like every killing, listed as unofficial or official, |
| 0:51.3 | they only come to the surface when it suits a theory. |
| 0:56.4 | They died four and a half years apart. |
| 0:58.9 | They didn't know each other. |
| 1:00.4 | They didn't solicited in the same area. |
| 1:02.6 | Their injuries were inconsistent. |
| 1:04.5 | Their individual suspects were ruled out and unconnected. |
| 1:08.2 | Figg was dumped against a tree. |
| 1:09.9 | Rees was buried in a rubbish tip. One was found after |
| 1:13.0 | five hours, one after 40 days, and only one of these victims of Jack the stripper was naked, |
| 1:20.0 | which is odd if that's his trademark. All that connected them were they were sex workers |
| 1:27.0 | who died half a mile apart. |
| 1:30.2 | With the press wholly disinterested, the detectives didn't think these two murders were linked, |
| 1:35.4 | and yet you can't quell a rumor. |
| 1:38.6 | Yet all that changed with Hannah Telf for Denireen Lockwood, the first two official killings |
| 1:43.3 | by Jack the Stripper. |
| 1:45.8 | As both women were found naked, possibly strangled and drugged, and dumped in the same stretch |
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