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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#92 - Elizabeth McLindon and the Wrong 'Mr Right' (Belgravia, London, SW1)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is about Elizabeth McLindon, a lonely lady looking for love who had finally found her future husband in a man named Arthur Boyce, and although this sweet and attentive man seemed like ‘Mr Right’, he was actually a liar, a thief, a bigamist and – just months later - her murderer.

  • Date: Saturday 8th June 1946
  • Location: 45 Chester Square, Belgravia, London, SW1
  • Victims: 1 (Elizabeth McLindon)
  • Culprits: Arthur Robert Boyce


Murder Mile 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, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here.


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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of

0:13.0

of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within and beyond the West End. Today's episode is about Elizabeth

0:25.5

McClendon, a lonely lady looking for love who had finally found her future husband in a man

0:32.4

named Arthur Boyce. And although this sweet-natured, an attentive man seemed like Mr. Wright, he was actually a liar,

0:41.3

a thief, a bigamist, and just months later, her murderer.

0:47.3

Murder Marley's research used in the original police files. It contains moments of satire,

0:53.3

shock and grisly details.

0:56.7

And as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds.

1:02.8

So that, no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there.

1:09.6

My name is Michael. I am your tour guide and this is

1:14.8

Murder Mile. Episode 92 Elizabeth MacLinden and the wrong Mr. Wright.

1:34.5

Today I'm standing on Chester Square in Belgravia, S.W. 1.

1:41.1

Four roads west of the McSwan family, whose bodies were dissolved by the acid bath murderer.

1:47.6

Three streets north of Victoria Station, where Patrick Marned up bits of Emily Bell BK, a few doors down from the Murder House of Lord Lucan, and four streets southeast of

1:55.8

the infamous Spaghetti House siege, Coming soon to Murder Mile. Being tucked behind Buckingham Palace.

2:03.6

Belgravia is so posh, it makes Mayfair look like a discount bin at Poundland.

2:12.6

Everything here is super expensive to keep the riffraff out. Nothing is signposted so the tourists stay away.

2:20.3

There's enough back streets so the nannies need never be seen.

2:24.3

And just like its residents, Belgravia is extremely wealthy,

2:29.3

but it has no style, soul or personality.

2:33.3

It's ugly, old, and has had so many lifts you can't see its wrinkles.

2:39.0

And yet it's so sour-faced, it never smiles anyway.

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