#76 - The Schoolboy, The Stranger and the Failure of the System (Covent Garden, London, WC2)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On Sunday 7th May 2000 at 08:05pm, outside of The Crown public house in Seven Dial (Covent Garden), 53 year old satanic paedophile Edward Alexander Crowley stabbed 12 year old Diego Pineiro-Villar. But what seemed like a random attack by a stranger was anything but.
- Date: 7th May 2000
- Location: Seven Dials, Covent Garden, Loindon, WC2
- Victims: 1 (Diego Pineiro-Villar)
- Culprit: Edward Alexander Crowley
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with music written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music by Ars Sonor and Kai Engel, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive. A full listing of tracks used and sources for each episode is listed in the blog.
FOLLOW US HERE:
Click here to access the weekly Murder Mile Blogs
If you’d like to sign-up for exclusive Murder Mile content, check out our Patreon Page
And for OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE, please visit the Murder Mile Shop.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:12.4 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within London's West End. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's episode is about the murder of Diego Piniere Villa, a sweet-natured boy whose simple |
| 0:30.0 | act of compassion for a homeless man called Edward Crowley led to an unusual friendship |
| 0:36.4 | and to his brutal death. |
| 0:38.3 | And yet, both of their lives were destroyed by an unfortunate series of legal loopholes. |
| 0:45.3 | Murder-Miley's research used in original sources. |
| 0:49.3 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the |
| 0:55.4 | real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you |
| 1:01.5 | listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:07.6 | My name is Michael. |
| 1:09.1 | I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:14.6 | Episode 76, The Schoolboy, the Stranger, and the Failure of the System. |
| 1:32.3 | Today, I'm standing in Seven Dials, WC2. One street southwest of the St Giles' Workhouse, where frozen infant Charlie Chergwin was turfed out into the snow. |
| 1:41.3 | Two streets west of the dank hovel of Mary Ann Moriarty, who hatcheted her cruel |
| 1:46.5 | husband to death. One street southeast of the M.T. Shasbury Avenue shop, where the violated |
| 1:52.9 | corpse of Nora Upchurch, was sensationally discovered by her own killer, and two streets |
| 1:59.0 | west of the baffling murder of Morris Sholdman, coming soon |
| 2:04.3 | to murder mile. Situated north of Covent Garden Market, Seven Diles is an iconic roundabout |
| 2:13.1 | marking the convergence of seven streets, including Shorts Gardens and both ends of Mercer, |
| 2:19.3 | Erlem and Monmouth Street. In the centre, on top of a 30-foot Doric column is a sculpture |
| 2:27.3 | of six sundials, designed to face each street and to display the solar time accurate to within 10 seconds. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.