#62 - The Rosendale Murder - Part Two (Chinatown, London, WC2)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This is a PART TWO 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. This is the investigation.
- Date: Sunday 26th September 1971
- Location: The Rosendale Club, 9 Newport Place, Chinatown, London, WC2 (first floor)
- Victims: 1 (Michael Barry Porter)
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| 0:00.0 | This is part two of a two-part episode. |
| 0:04.3 | If you haven't already listened to part one of episode 62, The Rosendale Murder, |
| 0:10.3 | I strongly suggest that you do that first, otherwise you will be very confused. |
| 0:29.8 | Welcome, Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:35.1 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, |
| 0:38.3 | all set within London's West End. |
| 0:46.3 | Today's episode is the final part of a two-part special on Michael Barry Porter. A 23-year-old scaffolder brutally murdered at the notorious Rosendale Club, |
| 0:52.3 | and although there was very little evidence, and not a single eyewitness |
| 0:56.4 | could identify his killer, the police would bring a murderer to justice. |
| 1:04.0 | Murder Marley's researched using the original police files. It contains moments of satire, |
| 1:09.3 | shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, |
| 1:14.2 | it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that, no matter where you listen to this podcast, |
| 1:20.9 | you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:24.5 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide. This is Murder Mile. Episode 62, The Rosendale Murder Murder, Part 2. |
| 1:52.3 | Today, I'm standing by the Regents Canal in Hagerston, E8. |
| 2:01.5 | Two miles west of the Islington Tunnel, where the body of Sebastiano Magnanini was tied to a shopping trolley and dumped in a watery grave. |
| 2:07.6 | Two miles west of Battlebridge Basin, where the hacked up bits of polar fields, were fished out by two boys, and barely a quarter of a mile east of Broadway Market, where bobbing |
| 2:14.4 | along, in the stagnant water were found the dismembered body parts of Jim and McCluskey. |
| 2:20.3 | Coming soon to Murdimar. |
| 2:26.3 | That's three bodies in 16 bits, and all in one small stretch of the region's canal, |
| 2:32.3 | which is about average for this place. |
| 2:35.7 | As recently, when the canal was drained, amongst the submerged detritus, like beer cans, |
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