#69 - The Abominable Mr & Mrs Cox (Holborn, London, WC1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 15 August 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On Friday 26th December 1947, Elizabeth Wakefield; an elderly widow who was desperate to remarry for fear of being left on the shelf, moved into the first floor flat at 46 Calthorpe Street with an angry drunken maniac called Frederick Cox who had been convicted of the attempted murder of his entire family. But who was worse – the widow or her killer?
- Date: Friday 26th December 1947
- Location: First floor flat, 46 Calthorpe Street, Holborn, London, WC1
- Victims: 1 (Elizabeth Henrietta Wakefield)
- Culprit: Frederick John Cox
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:13.4 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, |
| 0:19.0 | all set within London's West End. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's episode is about Elizabeth Wakefield, an elderly widow, desperate to remarry for fear of |
| 0:31.0 | being left on the shelf, and when left with very few options, she moved in with an angry |
| 0:37.1 | drunken maniac who had attempted |
| 0:39.3 | to murder his entire family. |
| 0:42.8 | But who was worse? |
| 0:44.4 | The widow or her killer? |
| 0:48.6 | Murder Marley's researched using the original police files. |
| 0:52.0 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details. And as a dramatization |
| 0:57.3 | of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where |
| 1:03.3 | you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. My name is Michael. I am your tall guide and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:15.6 | Episode 69, The Abominable Mr. and Mrs. Cox. |
| 1:20.6 | Today Today, I'm standing on Caltholbe Street, W.C.1. |
| 1:36.3 | Two streets east of the square, where the body parts of Louis Vrasin's mistress were dumped. |
| 1:41.3 | Three streets south of the warehouse where the corpse hero Glendor Michael |
| 1:46.0 | began his infamous second life, and 200 feet west of the hostel where Reg Christie spent his |
| 1:53.0 | last night of freedom, as well as being just streets away from the King's Crossfire, the 7-7 bus bombing |
| 2:00.0 | and the untold stories of the victims of |
| 2:03.1 | the Camden Ripper. Coming soon to Murdimar. Calthorpe Street is a quiet residential street |
| 2:12.7 | with three-story Georgian terrace houses on both sides of a curved street, access to a basement flat |
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