#69 - The Abominable Mr & Mrs Cox
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2019
⏱️ 65 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?
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| 1:20.6 | code at UK for terms. Welcome to Murder Mile. A True Crime Podcast, an audio guided walk featuring many of |
| 1:38.7 | London's untold unsolved and long forgotten murders. |
| 1:43.7 | All set within London's West End. |
| 1:48.6 | Today's episode is about Elizabeth Wakefield, an elderly widow desperate to remarry for fear of being left on the |
| 1:56.2 | shelf and when left with very few options she moved in with an angry drunken maniac who had attempted to murder his entire family. |
| 2:07.0 | But who was worse? The widow or her killer? |
| 2:16.0 | Murder-Mile researched researched using the original police files. It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, |
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