380: Murder in Blackout London w/ Amy Helen Bell

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Dr. Amy Helen Bell, author of "Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London". She shares accounts of the terror, tragedy and crime experienced by Londoners during the blackout and the blitz in 1940s wartime Britain. More about the author here: https://amyhelenbell.com/ Interested in revisiting the serial killers mentioned in this episode? John Reginald Christie: https://www.mostnotorious.com/2022/12/17/serial-killer-john-reginald-christie-the-great-london-smog-w-kate-winkler-dawson/ John George Haigh ("The Acid Bath Murderer"). https://www.mostnotorious.com/2022/11/22/the-acid-bath-murderer-w-gordon-lowe/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.7	and thank you for tuning in. Well, I'm very pleased to announce that my guest today is Dr. Amy
1:37.7	Helen Bell. She is a historian at Huron University College, University of Western Ontario. Her research and teaching focuses on the
1:47.2	social and cultural history of 20th century Britain, especially London. Her previous books include
1:54.4	London was ours, diaries and memoirs of the London Blitz, murder capital, Suspicious Deaths in London, 1933 to
2:02.6	1953, and Life Sentence, How My Father Defended Two Murderers and Lost Himself,
2:09.7	and her newest book, which came out last October, and is the subject of today's interview,
2:15.0	is called Undercover of Darkness, Murders in Blackout, London.
2:20.6	Thank you for joining me.
2:22.3	So great to have you here.
2:24.0	Thanks, Eric.
2:24.8	I'm happy to be here.
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