#44 - Susan Moir: The Brutal Life of the Baker's Wife (Covent Garden, London, WC2)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 20 September 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Between Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd, Sunday 24th and Monday 25th March 1850, at 25 Brydges Street, a baker’s wife called Susan Moir was literally beaten to death. And although this story is almost 170 years old, it remains just as relevant today
- Date: Friday 22nd to Monday 25th March 1850
- Location: Moir's Bakery, 25 Brydges Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2 (no demolished)
- Victims: 1 (Susan Moir)
- Culprit: Alexander Moir
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's |
| 0:14.0 | Untold, Unsolved and Long-Fogden Murders, all set within London's West End. |
| 0:24.1 | Today's episode is about Susan Moyer, an East End pauper who escaped poverty to become the mother to two boys |
| 0:33.1 | and wife to a prosperous baker, and yet her new life was a fate worse than death. |
| 0:42.3 | Murder-Mali's research using the original court documents. |
| 0:46.3 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details. |
| 0:51.3 | And as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, |
| 0:57.1 | so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:05.1 | My name is Michael. I'm your toll guide. This is Murder Mile. |
| 1:13.2 | Episode 44, Susan Moyer, the brutal life of the baker's wife. |
| 1:27.4 | Today, I'm standing on Catherine Street, WC2, |
| 1:32.9 | two streets east of the baby killer James Richardson Mills, |
| 1:37.3 | two streets south of Dora Friedman, |
| 1:40.2 | the West End prostitute supposedly slaughtered by the infamous maniac known as Soho Jack, |
| 1:46.0 | and one street north of Waterloo Bridge, where Bulgarian dissident Georgie Markov |
| 1:52.0 | was assassinated by the KGB, using an umbrella. |
| 1:56.0 | Coming soon to murder mark. |
| 2:04.8 | Wedge between the historic bottle of Covent Garden and the infamous theatre district of Drury Lane. |
| 2:09.1 | Being barely 800 feet long, |
| 2:12.2 | Catherine Street is a short but slightly sloped side street, |
| 2:16.8 | which begins at the theatre Royal, ends at the |
| 2:19.5 | Strand, and with smog permitting her stunning views of the Thames. |
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