Episode 73: The murder of Shakilus Townsend and Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins

S'laughter: True Crime Podcast

True Crime, Comedy, News

4.5 • 981 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week is a gang murder from Lucy who tells the story of Shakilus Townsend and the honeytrap that ended in his murder. Emma tells another oldie of sister duo Catherine Flannagan and Magaret Higgins, the black widows of Liverpool.

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0:00.0	The Slaughter podcast will be discussing topics that some listeners may find disturbing.
0:05.0	If you're still listening, we really apologize for last episode's intro.
0:10.0	We listened back, it was terrible.
0:19.0	Hi guys welcome to episode number of Slaughter True Crime Podcast, UK Crime Podcast.
0:25.0	I'm gonna start with, I think it's a bit different to what I normally do.
0:30.0	It's an interesting one in the sense that it's interesting enough that as a BBC drama about it but probably not many people have seen it.
0:37.0	Okay. So I would say your style was the Grizzly murders. It's kind of grisly. So a lot of the... the soldiers to kingpins the search for Mr Big which could be about horrible true crime or could be
0:56.9	about sex in the city part four yeah sex in the city three ganglands
1:02.4	I can see that happening.
1:04.0	It's by Tony Thompson and there's also a dramatisation by the BBC and you can find it on
1:08.4	YouTube if you search for My Murder Part 1.
1:11.0	And I think there's six parts, but it's not, it's not like one of these Shannon
1:17.2	Matthews type dramatizations that people go crazy for.
1:19.8	It's sort of like a probably just played in schools.
1:22.8	Oh, okay.
1:23.8	You know what?
1:24.8	So this is the story of Shaquille's Townsend and he was a 15 year old black lad
1:30.2	living in South London.
1:32.2	Really good looking boy.
1:34.0	He wanted to go to college.
1:35.0	He wasn't part of the South London gangs.
1:38.0	Have you heard much about sort of these?
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