#62 - The Rosendale Murder - Part One
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 73 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 a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | This is not your usual Murder Mile episode. |
| 0:26.0 | This is part one of a two-part episode. But I warn you now, |
| 0:28.0 | this is not your usual Murder Mile episode. |
| 0:31.0 | There are no sympathetic characters. there is no emotional backstory, there is no |
| 0:35.8 | simple narrative, and there is no one for you to root for, even the victim. |
| 0:42.6 | This is not an episode about an innocent person whose life was cruelly taken. |
| 0:47.9 | This is a story about lies. |
| 0:52.0 | The Rosendale murder should have been a simple investigation for the police to solve, |
| 0:56.0 | as 40 eyewitnesses in a small room were all within feet of a brutal murder. |
| 1:02.0 | And yet, none of them were able to identify the |
| 1:05.9 | killer. So don't expect a story about love, loss or sadness. This is a story about how eyewitnesses are accurate, fallible and |
| 1:17.0 | devious. It's about the difference between truth, lies and |
| 1:21.0 | misinformation and how against the odds, the police managed to solve an |
| 1:26.7 | unsolvable murder. |
| 1:29.7 | This is part one. |
| 1:34.0 | Welcome to Murder. |
| 1:45.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. A true crime podcast and audio guided walk featuring many of London's, |
| 1:49.7 | untold, unsolved and long forgotten murders, all set within London's West End. |
| 1:57.0 | Today's episode is a two-part special on the murderer of Michael Barry Porter, a 23-year-old |
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