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Murder Mile True-Crime Podcast #68: Roberto Troyan; Grief, Guilt and Greed

6/8/2019

Nominated BEST TRUE-CRIME PODCAST at British Podcast Awards 2018 and iTunes Top 50. Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Acast, Stitcher and all podcast platform.

101 Mount Street, Mayfair

Welcome to the Murder Mile true-crime podcast and audio guided walk of London's most infamous and often forgotten murder cases, set within one square mile of the West End.

A weekly true-crime podcast - EVERY THURSDAY
300+ infamous, untold or often forgotten true murders
Based on Soho's FIVE STAR rated Murder Mile Walks
Research collected from original and first-hand sources
Authentic sounds recorded from the location itself
An audio guided walk... all from the comfort of your home

To accompany your audio guided walk, what follows is a series of photos, videos and maps, so that no matter where you are listening to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there.

EPISODE SIXTY-EIGHT:
On Friday 8th March 2013, wealthy Mayfair socialite Roberto Troyan; a gregarious, fun and generous man who being gripped with grief and unable to cope placed his life in the hands of someone he felt he could trust - his financial advisor - and yet this greedy little man would bleed Roberto dry.

Date: Friday 8th March 2013
Location: Flat 6, 101 Mount Street, Mayfair, W1
Victims: 1 (Roberto Charles Troyan)
Culprit: David Jeffs

CLICK HERE to download the Murder Mile podcast via iTunes and to receive the latest episodes, click "subscribe". You can listen to it by clicking PLAY on the embedded media player below.

THE LOCATION
As many photos of the case are copyright protected by greedy news organisations (and I don't want to be billed £300 for copyright infringement again), to view them, take a peek at my entirely legal social media accounts - Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

I've added the location of 101 Mount Street, W1 where Roberto Troyan was murdered marked with a dark green !. It's by the words 'Mayfair'. To use the map, simply click it. If you want to see the other murder maps, such as King's Cross and Soho, you access them by clicking here.

For your enjoyment, here's a short video showing you 101 Mount Street where Roberto Troyan was murdered.

This video is only one minute long and is a link to youtube, so it won't eat up your data.

I've also posted some photos to aid your "enjoyment" of the episode. These photos were taken by myself (copyright Murder Mile) or granted under Government License 3.0, where applicable.

To the left is a photo of 101 Mount Street, Flat Six is on the first floor; at the top is an interior photo of the living room in Flat Five (not six) but they are similar, and below is a layout also of Flat Five, which is identical to Flat Six.

Credits: The Murder Mile true-crime podcast was researched, written and recorded by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne, with the sounds recorded on location (where possible), and the music written and performed by Erik Stein & Jon Boux of Cult With No Name. Additional music was written and performed as used under the Creative Common Agreement 4.0.

The music featured in this episode include:

Man in a Bag by Cult With No Name (opening and interstitials)
Winsome Lose Some by Cult With No Name (credits)
No News by Cult With No Name
Mourning Song by Kevin Macleod
As Below by Cult With No Name
Remedy for Melancholy by Kai Engel
Lighthouse (Exodus Mix) By Parvus Decree
Delirium by Kai Engel
Depths of Despair by Seclorance
Almost Home by Parvus Decree

Sources: Sadly with no National Archives file available, I had to use newspapers. Urgh! Yes, I know, British journalism is often a shoddy pile of shit, but sometimes, you have to go with what you are given.

Michael J Buchanan-Dunne is a writer, crime historian, podcaster and tour-guide who runs Murder Mile Walks, a guided tor of Soho’s most notorious murder cases, hailed as “one of the top ten curious, quirky, unusual and different things to do in London”, nominated "one of the best true-crime podcasts at the British podcast Awards 2018", and featuring 12 murderers, including 3 serial killers, across 15 locations, totaling 50 deaths, over just a one mile walk

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Meander Mile: #2 Covent Garden

29/7/2019

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Nominated BEST TRUE-CRIME PODCAST at British Podcast Awards 2018 and iTunes Top 50. Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Acast, Stitcher and all podcast platform.

Every-so-often I will be rolling out a new style of episode called Meander Mile, where I take you on a guided walk through a single street in London, or elsewhere in the United Kingdom; I'll show you streets you're already familiar with and street you aren't, pointing out locations you'll recognise from the podcast, and introducing you to new true-crime tales, as yet untold.

This week's episode focuses on Covent Garden, WC1; we'll visit Russian Dora, David Belasco, Edward Crowley, Reverend Hackman, Bow Street Police Station, Morris Sholman, Karl Taylor, Ada Chard, William Terris, Georgi Markov, Ann Webb, John Robinson, Dennis Nilsen and the Resurrection Men, to name but a few.

CLICK HERE to download the Murder Mile podcast via iTunes and to receive the latest episodes, click "subscribe". You can listen to it by clicking PLAY on the embedded media player below.

THE LOCATIONS
For your enjoyment, I've posted photos of the locations discussed in this episode. They're all in chronological order. These photos were taken by myself (copyright Murder Mile).

#1 - Covent Garden tube station (corner of Long Acre and James Street)
#2 - Long Acre (heading towards Russian Dora's murder location)
#3 - Covent Garden piazza (Martha Ray murder)
#4 - Russell Street (heading to Bow Street and Newgate Prison)
#5 - Southampton Street (looking towards The Strand, and Ann Webb's murder)
#6 - Maiden Lane (the William Terris murder)
#7 - Waterloo Bridge (Georgi Markov)
#8 - Newgate Street by The Old Bailey (execution site)
#9 - 3 Bedfordbury (home of the Bedfordbury baby batterer)
#10 - Charing Cross railway station

If you want to see 3 Henrietta Street where Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film Frenzy was shot with large chunks of it shot in Covent Garden in 1971, click on the video. You can see how it looked when it was still a fruit & veg market.

Credits: Murder Mile was researched, written and recorded by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne, with the music written and performed by Erik Stein & Jon Boux of Cult With No Name.

The music featured in this episode include:

Man in a Bag by Cult With No Name (opening and interstitials)
Winsome Lose Some by Cult With No Name (credits)

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Meander Mile: #1 Soho

24/7/2019

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Nominated BEST TRUE-CRIME PODCAST at British Podcast Awards 2018 and iTunes Top 50. Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Acast, Stitcher and all podcast platform.

Every-so-often I will be rolling out a new style of episode called Meander Mile, where I take you on a guided walk through a single street in London, or elsewhere in the United Kingdom; I'll show you streets you're already familiar with and street you aren't, pointing out locations you'll recognise from the podcast, and introducing you to new true-crime tales, as yet untold.

This week's episode focuses on Old Compton Street, W1 (in the heart of Soho); we'll visit the world of Dutch Leah, William Crees, Christos Georghiou, Charles Emile Berthier, Albert Dimes, Jack Spot, Alfredo Zomparelli, Colin Ireland, Margaret Ann Haldane, Richard Rhodes Henley, Dennis NIlsen, Tony Mella, Joe Gynane, John Alexander Ritchie, Andrey Konstantinovich Lugovoy, the Admiral Duncan and Simon Brade, to name but a few.

CLICK HERE to download the Murder Mile podcast via iTunes and to receive the latest episodes, click "subscribe". You can listen to it by clicking PLAY on the embedded media player below.

THE LOCATIONS
For your enjoyment, I've posted photos of the locations discussed in this episode. They're all in chronological order. These photos were taken by myself (copyright Murder Mile).

#1 - New Compton Street (utility corridor under Charing Cross Road)
#2 - Charing Cross Road
#3 - Formerly Little Compton Street (Edwin Albert Bush)
#4 - Moor Street (heading towards Cambridge Circus)
#5 - Greek Street (William Crees, Antorka Pankorski)
#6 - Dodo on Frith Street (Union Club)
#7 - Frith Street (Ronnie Scott's)
#8 - Old Compton Brasserie (was Golden Goose, Alfredo Zomparelli)
#9 - Dean Street (Richard Rhodes Henley, BT Tower)
#10 - 48 Dean Street (Tony Mella)
#11 - Romilly Street (Captain John Alexander Ritchie, Ann Farvish)
#12 - The Golden Lion pub (Dennis NIlsen)
#13 - The Admiral Duncan
#14 - 66 Old Compton Street (Dutch Leah)
#15 - End of Old Compton Street (Wardour Street end)
#16 - Tilsbury Court

Man in a Bag by Cult With No Name (opening and interstitials)
Winsome Lose Some by Cult With No Name (credits)

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Murder Mile True-Crime Podcast #67: The Missing Pieces of Juliette Merrill

17/7/2019

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Nominated BEST TRUE-CRIME PODCAST at British Podcast Awards 2018 and iTunes Top 50. Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Acast, Stitcher and all podcast platform.

35 Gosfield Street is the red/brown bricked building to the right, with Flat 5 on the first floor, top left with the window open. This is where Juliette Merrill was murdered

Welcome to the Murder Mile true-crime podcast and audio guided walk of London's most infamous and often forgotten murder cases, set within one square mile of the West End.

A weekly true-crime podcast - EVERY THURSDAY
300+ infamous, untold or often forgotten true murders
Based on Soho's FIVE STAR rated Murder Mile Walks
Research collected from original and first-hand sources
Authentic sounds recorded from the location itself
An audio guided walk... all from the comfort of your home

To accompany your audio guided walk, what follows is a series of photos, videos and maps, so that no matter where you are listening to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there.

EPISODE SIXTY-SEVEN
On Thursday 5th April 1934, in Flat 5 of 35 Gosfield Street, 34 year old Juliette Merrill was murdered; it was a crime of passion committed by her boyfriend, investigated by the Police and convicted in a court of law, and although the case is now closed, the details of her life and death are a little sketchy… with one vital clue almost erased forever.

Date: Thursday 5th April 1934
Location: Flat 5, 35 Gosfield Street, W1
Victims: 1 (Juliette Louise Merrill)
Culprit: Eric Russell

CLICK HERE to download the Murder Mile podcast via iTunes and to receive the latest episodes, click "subscribe". You can listen to it by clicking PLAY on the embedded media player below.

I've added the location of 35 Gosfield Street, W1 where Juliette Merrill was murdered marked with a yellow !. It's up by the words 'Fitzrovia'. To use the map, simply click it. If you want to see the other murder maps, such as King's Cross and Paddington, you access them by clicking here

For your enjoyment, here's a short video showing you 35 Gosfield Street where Juliette Merrill was murdered.

This video is only one minute long and is a link to youtube, so it won't eat up your data.

I've also posted some photos to aid your "enjoyment" of the episode. These photos were taken by myself (copyright Murder Mile) or granted under Government License 3.0, where applicable.

Gosfield Street as it looks today, an example of the "redacted file" and 35 Gosfield Street on the right

Credits: The Murder Mile true-crime podcast was researched, written and recorded by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne, with the sounds recorded on location (where possible), and the music written and performed by Erik Stein & Jon Boux of Cult With No Name. Additional music was written and performed as used under the Creative Common Agreement 4.0.

The music featured in this episode include:

Man in a Bag by Cult With No Name (opening and interstitials)
Winsome Lose Some by Cult With No Name (credits)
Maitre-D Day by Cult With No Name
July by Kai Engel
Fife Feature by The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps
You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself by Cult With No Name
Lighthouse Exodus by Parvus Decree
A Fly in the Ointment by Cult With No Name
Low Horizon by Kai Engel

Sources:
Murder of Juliette Louise Merrill - http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1257733

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Murder Mile True-Crime Podcast #66: Seydou Diarrassouba: Another Wasted Life

10/7/2019

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Nominated BEST TRUE-CRIME PODCAST at British Podcast Awards 2018 and iTunes Top 50. Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Acast, Stitcher and all podcast platform.

HMV at 363 Oxford Street, W1, where Foot Locker used to be in 2011 and where Seydou was stabbed to death

Welcome to the Murder Mile true-crime podcast and audio guided walk of London's most infamous and often forgotten murder cases, set within one square mile of the West End.

A weekly true-crime podcast - EVERY THURSDAY
300+ infamous, untold or often forgotten true murders
Based on Soho's FIVE STAR rated Murder Mile Walks
Research collected from original and first-hand sources
Authentic sounds recorded from the location itself
An audio guided walk... all from the comfort of your home

To accompany your audio guided walk, what follows is a series of photos, videos and maps, so that no matter where you are listening to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there.

EPISODE SIXTY-SIX:
On Boxing Day 2011, 18 year old Seydou Diarrassouba was stabbed to death outside of Foot Locker on Oxford Street, he was a promising young man from a good solid family who had a great start in life, and yet, believing that he had to carry a knife, instead of becoming someone great, he became just another statistic.

Date: Tuesday 26th December 2011
Location: Foot Locker, 363 Oxford Street, W1 (was HMV, now vacant)
Victims: 1 (Seydou Diarrassouba)
Culprit: Jermaine Joseph (found not guilty)

CLICK HERE to download the Murder Mile podcast via iTunes and to receive the latest episodes, click "subscribe". You can listen to it by clicking PLAY on the embedded media player below.

For your enjoyment, here's a short video showing you 363 Oxford Street where Foot Locker was in 2011. It hasn't changed much.

This video is only one minute long and is a link to youtube, so it won't eat up your data.

The location of Foot Locker at 363 Oxford Street, W1 is marked with a blue ! in the far right. To use the map, simply click it. If you want to see the other murder maps, such as King's Cross and Soho, you access them by clicking here.

Here's some useful videos to go with the story; one the left is a tribute video created by friends of Seydou and right is some grainy footage of the aftermath.