#72 - Vera Crawford: A Very Ordinary Murder (Bloomsbury, London, WC1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday 18th September 1948, in Room 1 of the Grenville Hotel, Vera Crawford, an unwell woman was found dead in her hotel bed. It seemed as if she had died of natural causes but being required to inform the victim’s next-of-kin, the Police uncovered a murder which was both sinister and tragic.
- Date: Saturday 18th September 1948
- Location: The Grenville Hotel, 1 Grenville Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1
- Victims: 1 (Vera "Vicky" Crawford)
- Culprit: Herbert Alfred Savill
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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, |
| 0:19.1 | all set within London's West End. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's episode is about Vera Crawford, an unwell woman who was found dead in her hotel bed. |
| 0:32.1 | It seemed as if she died from natural causes, but being required to inform the victims next of kin, the police |
| 0:39.6 | uncovered a murder which was both sinister and tragic. |
| 0:45.7 | Murder Marley's researched used in the original police files. |
| 0:49.5 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, |
| 0:57.0 | it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, |
| 1:04.0 | you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:08.0 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide. This is Murder Mile. Episode 72, Vera Crawford, a very ordinary murder. |
| 1:37.1 | Today, I'm standing on Grenville Street, W.C.1. Three streets south of the square where the body parts of Emmeline Gerard were dumped. One street east of the hotel where the unfortunate Mr. |
| 1:43.6 | Johnson's killer took a quick snooze. Two blocks east of the hotel where the unfortunate Mr Johnson's killer took a quick snooze. |
| 1:46.9 | Two blocks east of the university where nursing a sore neck, |
| 1:51.2 | Carl Stottor realised he had narrowly missed being the next victim of serial killer Dennis Nielsen |
| 1:57.1 | and a short walk from the Tavistock and Russell Square bombings, coming soon to |
| 2:04.3 | Murder Mile. |
| 2:08.8 | Grenville Street is an unsightly side street surrounded by hotels, hospitals and hostels, |
| 2:15.5 | snut between Soho and King's Cross in what is dubbed the |
| 2:19.2 | fashionable district of Bloomsbury. Fashionable, if you're a former Victorian slavemaster |
| 2:26.0 | who wears a monocle, a cane and a top hat. Lament about the good old days when you could own |
| 2:31.8 | your own pet Geordie, eat a rhino, execute |
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