#351 - The Ghost of 'Veronique' (Soho, 1940-42)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the spring of 1942, a young French girl known only as ‘Veronique’ vanished from the streets of Soho. No-one knew her real name, where she came from, or how she had got there, but she had lived and worked as a prostitute for almost two years, and then having tried to escape, she vanished. Her disappearance is as much of a mystery as her life, or identity.
Unlike others episodes of Murder Mile, this was compiled over a decade from the reminiscences of those who knew her or knew of her, therefore not everything should be taken as fact. Memories are subjective, and over time, the accuracy fades, and details are shifted, rearranged or adapted to suit a bias or perspective, so all that remains is a mystery.
- Location: Rupert Street (number unknown), Soho, London, W1
- Date: 1940 to 1942
- Victims: ‘Veronique’
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| 0:00.0 | There's a gripping true crime episode coming your way in just a moment, but before it starts, have you got your next listen lined up? |
| 0:08.0 | If you're in the mood for the otherworldly, check out Paranormia. |
| 0:11.8 | Elizabeth McAfee explores a neuroscientist chilling experiment into whether ghosts could actually be glitches in the brain. |
| 0:21.0 | Using the so-called God helmet, researchers triggered the feeling of a strange presence |
| 0:26.6 | in more than 80% of participants, raising the question, are ghosts real? |
| 0:33.1 | Or, for a deeply unsettling true crime case, British murders examines the brutal Christmas |
| 0:39.3 | Day killing of grandmother, Hannah Smith. With the victim kept firmly at the heart of the story, |
| 0:45.7 | Stuart uncovers the events that led to Amanda Nicholl stabbing her 45 times. Search for |
| 0:51.7 | Paranormia and British murders now and get your next episode queued up. |
| 0:58.8 | Did Veronique finally find happiness or vanish from existence? Find out on Murder Mile. |
| 1:16.8 | Today, I'm standing on Rupert Street in Soho W1. |
| 1:21.2 | One street east of Harry Kimber, who murdered his newborn child. |
| 1:24.5 | One street west of the unsolved murder of Camille Gordon. |
| 1:29.4 | The same street as Larry Winter's wasted life. And one street south of the baffling porn theatre killing, coming soon to murder. |
| 1:37.4 | Rupert Street has been gentrified over the years, as Soho, or more precisely the council, |
| 1:43.3 | tries to shake its image as a cesspit of seedy brothels |
| 1:46.5 | and mooky bookshops where men in Flashimax stifle a bone. |
| 1:51.9 | With the pittle and plop wash from the streets nightly, by morning when the artisan |
| 1:56.3 | food market opens, and Tarquin and Vanella sample a soups-on of East Asian curries, supposedly |
| 2:02.5 | made by a hundred-year-old monk from an ancient recipe, yet the website suggests his name |
| 2:07.1 | is Tom, he has a hipster beard, and he was slopped from a vat in an exotic place called |
| 2:12.0 | Wembley. Just as the giant dish of Paella beside it looks fresh, but is as crunchy as across these knickers. |
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