#64 - Ben & Freya Pedersen, the Last Victims of the Hyde Park Bombing (Hyde Park, London, W2)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday 20th July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded in Hyde Park. Ben and Freya Pedersen were the last two victims of the Hyde Park bombing, and yet their faces don’t appear in any photos and their names aren’t etched on the memorial plaque, and although they died thirty years after this terrorist attack, their deaths are no less tragic.
- Date: Tuesday 20th July 1982
- Location: Hyde Park, London, W2
- Victims: 1 (Ben & Freya Pedersen)
- Culprit: Michael Pedersen
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, |
| 0:10.2 | A True Crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:14.1 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, |
| 0:19.6 | all set within London's West End. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's episode is about Ben and Freya Pedersen, |
| 0:27.6 | the last two victims of the Hyde Park bombing. |
| 0:31.6 | And yet their faces don't appear in any photos. |
| 0:34.6 | Their names aren't etched on the memorial plaque, and although they |
| 0:38.4 | died 30 years after this terrorist attack, their deaths are no less tragic. |
| 0:46.0 | Murder Mile is researched using original and authentic sources. It contains moments of satire, |
| 0:52.3 | shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, |
| 0:57.3 | it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, |
| 1:03.5 | you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:07.0 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile. Episode 64, Ben and Freya |
| 1:16.8 | Pedersen, the last victims of the High Park bombing. |
| 1:38.1 | Today, I'm standing on South Carriage Drive in Hyde Park, W2, a short walk south of Maison Leoness, where Evelyn Hamilton met the blackout ripper, a brisk doodle east of the milk bar where Rita Nelson met Reg |
| 1:45.9 | Christie, a quick canter from the Tyburn tree, London's infamous execution site, and a short |
| 1:53.2 | doodle from the ice disaster on the serpentine, coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 2:01.6 | Situated west of Mayfair and bookended by Bayswater and Kensington, Hyde Park is the largest of London's four royal parks. |
| 2:09.6 | Established in 1536, when Fat bloated Wife Shortner Henry VIII, namped 350 acres of the church's land to turn a deer reserve into |
| 2:19.9 | a shooting gallery. |
| 2:22.3 | Hyde Park is a public park, open to everyone for everything. |
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