#63 - Louis Voisin: the Love Rat, his Ladies and the Bloody Belgian (Fitzrovia, London, W1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
On 31st October 1917, Emilienne Gerard went missing, two days later her dismembered corpse was found. The Police suspected her killer was Louis Voisin; an experienced butcher who could kill a cow with a single blow, a conniving love-rat who carefully juggled his two secret mistresses and a romantic soul who would do anything for the woman he loved. But was he her killer?
- Date: Wednesday 31st October 1917
- Location: 101 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1
- Victims: 1 (Emmilienne Gerard)
- Culprit: Louis Marie Joseph Voisin?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:14.6 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders, all set within London's West End. |
| 0:22.6 | Today's episode is about Louis Voisin, an experienced butcher who could kill a cow with a single blow, |
| 0:32.6 | a conniving love rat who carefully juggled his two mistresses, and a romantic soul who would do |
| 0:39.1 | anything for the woman he loved. |
| 0:42.1 | But which one did he love? |
| 0:46.2 | Murder Mile is researched using the original police files. |
| 0:49.5 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, |
| 0:56.0 | it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, |
| 1:02.8 | you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:06.2 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:13.6 | Episode 63, Louis Vuassine, the love rat, his ladies and the bloody Belgian. |
| 1:25.6 | Today I'm standing on Charlotte Street, W1. |
| 1:33.3 | One street north of the infamous Charlotte Street robbery, three streets east of the Blackout |
| 1:38.8 | Ripper's third victim, Margaret Lowe, one street west of the deathbed of 14-week-old Charlie Chergwin, |
| 1:46.0 | and between Hyde Park and Regions Park, where two terrorist bombs caused two innocents to die |
| 1:53.0 | who weren't even there, coming soon to murder myr. |
| 2:00.0 | Situated in Fitzrovia, a supposedly fashionable district just north of Soho, Charlotte Street |
| 2:07.1 | stretches almost the entire length of this square mile, running parallel to Tottencourt |
| 2:12.6 | Road. |
| 2:13.6 | But unlike the funky, seedy filth of Soho's Old Compton Street, Charlotte Street is dull, grey, drab and bland. |
| 2:22.3 | As a long straight road, with flat-fronted townhouses on both sides, |
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