#39 - George Thomas Picking: The Silent Killer (Soho, London, W1
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
George Thomas Pickering – The Silent Killer: on Monday 8th October 1963, in the first floor flat of 12 Brewer Street in Soho, W1, a hard-working husband and doting father-of three, brutally murdered a Soho prostitute called Rosa O’Neill. And yet, why he killed her remains the real mystery.
- Date: Monday 8th October 1963
- Location: 12 Brewer Street, Soho, London, W1
- Victims: 1 (Rosa O'Neill)
- Culprit: George Thomas PIckering
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, |
| 0:10.1 | A True Crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, |
| 0:19.4 | all set within one square mile of the West End. |
| 0:25.5 | Today's episode is about George Thomas Pickering, a hardworking husband and doting father of three, |
| 0:34.4 | who was the epitome of a Jekyll and Hyde character and whose mania led him to brutally slay |
| 0:41.3 | a Soho sex worker called Rosa O'Neill, and yet why he killed her remains the real mystery. |
| 0:51.3 | Murdomile contains upsetting details which may cause the easily startled to spew, as well as realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:07.0 | My name is Michael, I am your tour guide. This is Murder Mile. |
| 1:13.6 | Episode 39, George Thomas Pickering, The Silent Killer. |
| 1:21.6 | Today, I'm standing on Brewer Street in Soho W1. |
| 1:33.3 | One road north of the White Horse Public House, where Larry Winter's gunned down patio keith. |
| 1:41.3 | One road west of the bombing of the Admiral Duncan, and two roads |
| 1:47.7 | north of the unsolved killing of police informer, Black Rita, coming soon to murder mile. |
| 1:58.5 | Originally called Wells Street, although this single-lane side street is barely 1,200 feet long, |
| 2:06.6 | as home to the now defunct and demolished Ayers and Davies breweries, |
| 2:11.7 | Wells Street was renamed Brewer Street. |
| 2:16.5 | But for at least the last century, being crammed full of seedy sex shops and |
| 2:22.2 | sweaty strip joints, all of which are occupied by spunky-handed willy fiddlers in dirty flashing |
| 2:28.7 | Macs. Surely it's time to rename this Mucky Soho backstreet with a more appropriate moniker, |
| 2:37.0 | like Perverts Parade, Wankers Way, Spooge Street or Jizzy Junction. |
| 2:45.0 | Today, No. 12 Brewer Street is called Soho's original bookshop, |
| 2:50.0 | and has a deeply dull three-story |
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