#59 - Daisy Edith Wallis: The Slaughtered Spinster (Holborn, London, WC2)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On Monday 15th August 1949, a lovely but lonely lady with big dreams and a warm heart - who had struggled against the odds to build her own business from scratch - had finally succeeded. She should have been happy… but (unbeknownst to her) someone wanted her dead.
- Date: Monday 15th August 1949
- Location: 157 High Holborn, Covent Garden, London, WC2 (now demolished)
- Victims: 1 (Daisy Edith Wallis)
- Culprit: Unknown
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's |
| 0:12.4 | untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders, all set within London's West End. |
| 0:20.4 | Today's episode is about Daisy Edith Wallace. |
| 0:24.6 | A lovely but lonely lady with big dreams and a warm heart, |
| 0:28.6 | who struggled against the odds to build her own business from scratch. |
| 0:32.6 | And having succeeded, she should have been happy. |
| 0:36.6 | But unbeknownst to her, someone wanted her dead. |
| 0:41.8 | Murdomale is researched using the original police files. |
| 0:45.2 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details. |
| 0:49.3 | And as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:02.2 | My name is Michael. I am your tall guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:08.6 | Episode 59, Daisy Edith Wallace, the slaughtered spinster. |
| 1:21.3 | Today, I'm standing in High Hoban, WC2. |
| 1:26.2 | A three-minute walk east of the Denmark Place Fire, a five-minute doordle south-west of the |
| 1:32.3 | lonely death of Nora Upchurch, and a ten-minute stroll from the truly strange but unsolved death of Vera Crawford, |
| 1:40.3 | coming soon to murder mile. |
| 1:48.6 | High Hoban is one of central London's busiest roads, |
| 1:51.3 | stretching from Farringdon to St. Paul's, |
| 1:52.9 | Hoban to Shaftsby Avenue, |
| 1:55.7 | as long lines of cars, trucks and buses, |
| 1:58.3 | burp great plumes of choking fumes, |
| 2:03.6 | across a grey, soulless landscape with no grass, trees or birds, |
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