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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#37 - The Wasted Life of Larry Winters (Soho, London, W1)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

English, Society & Culture, London, True-crime, Documentary, History, Uk, Killer, True Crime, Crime, Murder, British

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🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

On Sunday 14th June 1964, in the bar-room of The White Horse public house on Rupert Street in Soho, 21 year old Larry Winters shot 44 year old barman Paddy O'Keefe to death, having never met him before. But why?

  • Date: Sunday 14th June 1964
  • Location: The White Horse, Rupert Street, Soho, London, W1
  • Victims: 1 (Paddy O'Keefe)
  • Culprit: Lawrence Costigan "Larry" Winters


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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder Mile.

0:10.0

A true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within one square mile of the West End.

0:26.3

Today's episode is about Larry Winters. A loving son, a soldier, and a violently disturbed

0:35.8

psychopath, who never got the help he so badly needed,

0:40.1

and in the moment of madness, he destroyed two lives forever.

0:48.5

Murdomile contains shocking details, which may make the delicate go doolay, as well as realistic sounds, so that no matter

0:58.8

where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there.

1:05.7

My name is Michael.

1:08.0

I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. Episode 37, the wasted life of Larry Winters. Today, I'm standing outside of the White Horse Public House on Rupert Street in Soho, W1.

1:38.9

One road west of the Old Compton Street deathbed of Dutch Leia, one road east of the salted

1:46.0

almond cocktail bar where Greta Haywood met the notorious blackout ripper, and one road

1:53.0

south of Brewer Street, where Soho sex workers, Gingeray and Margaret Cook, were last seen alive,

2:00.0

and where Rosa O'Neill was viciously stabbed to death by a deaf and mute murderer,

2:08.6

coming soon to murder mile.

2:15.6

Originally built in the 1720s and rebuilt in the 1930s, the White Horse has stood on the

2:24.0

cobblestone corner of Rupert Street for almost 300 years.

2:30.1

And being a four-story building of sandstone brick, with a dark wood façade, frosted glass,

2:37.0

brass fittings, black double doors and a defunct Victorian gaslight above.

2:44.0

As much as Soho may change, this pub has remained traditional, inside and out.

2:53.6

Barely 50 feet long, by 50 feet wide,

2:56.6

and dominated by a central bar island,

3:00.6

so broad, when the pub has 60 punters in,

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