#62 - The Rosendale Murder - Part One (Chinatown, London, WC2)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This is a PART ONE of a TWO part special on the murder of Michael Barry Porter; a twenty-three year old scaffolder from King’s Cross, who was brutally murdered in a disreputable West End club, and yet, strangely, almost none of the forty witnesses could identify his killer.
- Date: Sunday 26th September 1971
- Location: The Rose n Dale Club, 9 Newport Place, Chinatown, London, WC2 (first and second floor)
- Victims: 1 (Michael Barry Porter)
- Culprit: See episode for details
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| 0:00.0 | This is part one of a two-part episode. |
| 0:04.0 | But I warn you now, this is not your usual murder-mile episode. |
| 0:08.0 | There are no sympathetic characters, there is no emotional backstory, there is no simple narrative, |
| 0:15.0 | and there is no one for you to root for, even the victim. |
| 0:19.0 | This is not an episode about an innocent person whose life was |
| 0:23.5 | cruelly taken. This is a story about lies. The Rosendale murder should have been a simple |
| 0:31.8 | investigation for the police to solve, as 40 eyewitnesses in a small room were all within feet of a brutal murder, |
| 0:40.3 | and yet none of them were able to identify the killer. |
| 0:45.3 | So don't expect a story about love, loss or sadness. |
| 0:49.3 | This is a story about how eyewitnesses are accurate, fallible and devious. |
| 0:55.8 | It's about the difference between truth, lies and misinformation, and how, against the |
| 1:01.8 | odds, the police managed to solve an unsolvable murder. |
| 1:07.1 | This is Part 1. |
| 1:21.6 | Music This is Part 1 Welcome to Murder Mile. A True Crime podcast and audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders, |
| 1:31.7 | all set within London's West End. |
| 1:36.0 | Today's episode is a two-part special on the murder of Michael Barry Porter, a 23-year-old |
| 1:43.0 | scaffolder from King's Cross, who was brutally murdered in a |
| 1:47.2 | disreputable West End club, and yet strangely, almost none of the 40 witnesses could identify |
| 1:54.9 | his killer. |
| 1:57.5 | Murder Marley's researched using the original police files. |
| 2:04.8 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details. |
| 2:10.4 | And as a dramatization of real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds. |
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