#349 - Undressing Jack the Stripper - Part C of D (Hammersmith Nudes; Helen Barthelemy & Mary Fleming)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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Summary
This is Part C 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, Psychopath: 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 Helen Barthelemy & Mary Fleming.
- Location: rear of 199 Boston Manor Road, Brentford, London, TW8
- Date: Friday 24th of April 1964 (body found)
- Victims: Helen Barthelemy
- Location: 48 Berrymede Road, Chiswick, London, W4
- Date: Tuesday 14th of July 1964 (body found)
- Victims: Mary Fleming
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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. Elizabeth Figg, Gwyneth Rees, Hannah Telford and Irene Lockwood. Four women whose deaths |
| 0:27.3 | barely half a mile apart were tenuously linked for the sake of sensationalist news. Even though two |
| 0:33.3 | were drownings, one was a possible botched abortion and one was likely an unrelated murder. |
| 0:40.3 | The same happened from August, 35 to May 36 in Soho, when four sex workers, all young |
| 0:47.6 | petite brunettes were strangled but not sexually assaulted on neighbouring streets. And although |
| 0:53.4 | not a shred of evidence connects them, |
| 0:55.8 | a wealth of myths, lies and conspiracy theories linked to an unnamed killer. |
| 1:01.6 | The press love creating waves, and too often the investigation gets caught in its wake. |
| 1:08.3 | Like from January 1980 to August 1983, when in districts near to where Jack the stripper struck, |
| 1:14.6 | a slayer attacked six gay men. All was stabbed and battered, with some posed and set alight, |
| 1:21.6 | by it was believed, alone assailant. All six were murdered, yet this wasn't the work of a serial killer. It was |
| 1:30.3 | a coincidence. As the evidence later showed that one was slain by a burglar, won by a |
| 1:37.3 | lovesick vagrant, and while the other six would remain unsolved, their killers were either |
| 1:42.3 | rent boys or sadists who had taken their sex |
| 1:44.7 | games too far. |
| 1:49.4 | There was no Jack the Stripper. |
| 1:51.5 | He did not exist. |
| 1:54.4 | At least until April 1964, when he murdered his possible first victim, 22-year-old Brunette |
| 2:00.7 | Alan Bartholomey, and three more |
| 2:03.5 | would follow, Mary Fleming, Margaret McGowan and Bridget O'Hara, all whose bodies were stripped, |
| 2:10.6 | strangled and dumped. |
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