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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#58 - Jacqueline Birri: the Hooker, the Poker and the Stranger (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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🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On Thursday 2nd November 1961, on the first floor of 3 Peter Street, a Soho sex-worker called Jacqueline Birri was bludgeoned to death… by a complete stranger. But why?

  • Date: Thursday 2nd November 1961
  • Location: 3 Peter Street, Soho, London, W1 (now Supreme)
  • Victims: 1 (Jacqueline Birri)
  • Culprit: David Emery


Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with music written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music by Kai Engel, Parvus Decree and Chris Zabriskie, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive. A full listing of tracks used and sources for each episode is listed here.


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0:44.8

Watch all episodes of the new series of the Lazarus Project on Sky. Welcome to Murder Mile.

1:00.0

A True Crime Podcast and audio guided walk featuring many of London's untold

1:06.4

unsolved long forgotten murders all set within London's West End.

1:14.0

Today's episode is about the murder of Soho prostitute Jacqueline Bury.

1:19.0

It seemed like a simple open and shut case.

1:28.3

There was a body, a culprit and several eyewitnesses and in a case neatly wrapped up with a confession, a sentence and a conviction.

1:33.0

Justice was served, but something didn't sit right.

1:37.0

Murder-Mile is researched using the original police files.

1:42.0

It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details.

1:46.1

And as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds,

1:52.0

so that no matter where you listen to this

1:55.2

podcast you'll feel like you're actually there. My name is Michael I am your

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