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Thank you. network. Camden Town in London is home to bustling markets, street food vendors and alternative clothing shops. It's popular with both locals and tourists alike.

However, it was once known as a sordid area full of distilleries, pubs and sex workers,

not to mention being the location of a murder that still remains unsolved over a hundred years later.

Music over a hundred years later. Welcome to Season 7, Episode 7 of They Walk Among Us,

a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

Thank you. It's a UK true crime. After working, the overnight shift as a dining car attendant on the Midland Railway,

Bertram Shaw returned home at No 29 St Paul's Road in Camden Town. Thursday, September 12, 1907 had been warm and dry. Bertram

must have felt relief leaving the confines of the compact carriages.

But, as he was more commonly known, had departed his home the previous evening at 4.30pm.

Upon his return he used his key to let himself in through the property's front door. With the high prices of

rent in London, even an issue over a hundred years ago, Bert and his partner shared the house

with their landlord and landlady. The couple had their own private space in the parlour with an

adjoining bedroom.

When Bert arrived home and tried to open the door to the front room, he found it locked,

and the key was not where he expected.

It was a house rule to ensure the interior door key was in the lock.

Furthermore, Bert's wife knew he would be returning home from his shift.

He went to see his landlady and borrowed a key.

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