The Trail Went Cold - Episode 331 - Jean Bradley

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

March 25, 1993. London, England. After getting off a train at the Acton Town tube station, 47-year old Jean Bradley heads towards her parked car, but is attacked and murdered by a man who stabs her eight times. A witness chases after the assailant for several blocks before losing him, but manages to provide a detailed description to the police. Five months later, a suspect named Frank Marnell is charged with Jean’s murder after this witness identifies him, but since a magistrate does not feel the evidence against Marnell is strong enough to bring him to trial, the charges against him are dropped. Was Frank Marnell actually responsible for killing Jean Bradley or could someone else have been the perpetrator? And what could the motive for this crime have been? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore one of the most disturbing unsolved murders in the history of the United Kingdom. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jean_Bradley https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business-woman-stabbed-to-death-murder-near-station-similar-to-1991-attack-1500751.html https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/dec/20/robert-napper-rachel-nickell https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/murder-successful-businesswoman-stabbed-8-24414130 https://www.newspapers.com/image/260260709/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/260259630/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon. Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is doing a weekly livestream show on Vokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Tower Bridge, Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on June 10-11, 2023, as well as “Crimecon” at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida on September 22-24, 2023. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to either event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD23”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.co.uk or https://www.crimecon.com. “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Austin, Texas on August 25-27, 2023. To get a 15 % discount on the purchase of tickets, please our specialized promo code, “TRAIL”, by visiting https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	March 25th, 1993.
0:03.0	London, England.
0:06.0	After getting off a train at the Act in town tube station, 47-year-old Jean Bradley heads
0:10.9	towards a parked car, but is murdered by a man who stabs her eight times.
0:15.6	A witness chases after the attacker for several blocks before losing him, but manages to provide
0:20.6	a detailed description to the police. Five months later, a suspect named Frank
0:25.5	Martnell is charged with Jean's murder after this witness identifies him. But since a magistrate
0:30.8	does not feel that the evidence against Martnell is strong enough to bring him to trial,
0:35.2	the charges against him are dropped, and no one is ever convicted of the crime.
0:39.7	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, well, uh, and uh,
0:53.0	uh, uh, it's all. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:23.1	I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be exploring an unsolved cold
1:27.7	case from the United Kingdom, the 1993 murder of Jean Bradley.
1:33.1	So this coming weekend, I'm going to be appearing on Podcast Row at CrimeCon UK in London,
1:38.6	and per tradition, in the week preceding these podcasting events, I always like to cover a case from the
1:43.8	host city.
1:44.8	Now if I was to put together a list of crimes from this podcast which appeared to be unlikely
1:49.8	candidates to remain unsolved, the murder of Jean Bradley would be right near the top of the list.
1:55.5	Jean was a businesswoman who was stabbed to death by an unidentified man while approaching
2:00.5	her parked car in the Acton suburb of West London, and what makes this crime
2:05.0	stand out is that an eyewitness took the initiative to chase down the killer for over a mile
2:10.0	before losing him.
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