Mini Mile #13 (Siblings, Shanks, Loose Screws and Fishy Semtex)

Nominated BEST TRUE-CRIME PODCAST at British Podcast Awards 2018, The Telegraph's Top Five True-Crime Podcasts, The Guardian's Podcast of the Week and iTunes Top 25. Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Acast, Stitcher and all podcast platforms.

Welcome to Mini Mile, your indispensable compendium of UK true-crime trivia.

This week, we’ll ask which sibling is most likely to become a serial-killer, what ponsy toys do crime scene investigators have at their disposal, what homemade weapons can be made in prison, who are some serious odd-balls with a screw loose, and who is London’s other worst robber.

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Credits: The Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast 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. ​​Additional music was used under the Creative Common Agreement 4.0. The music featured in this episode includes:

• Start It Again by Cult With No Name (intro)Ghost Town by Mike Relm
• There’s a Special Place for Some People by Chris Zabriskie
• What Does Anyone Known About Anything by Chris Zabriskie
• Air Hockey Saloon by Chris Zabriskie
• The Heist by The Whole Other
• A New Day in the Sector by Chris Zabriskie
• Plain Loafer by Kevin MacLeod
• Walter & Wally by Cult With No Name (credits)

SOURCES:

• https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/equipment-needed-crime-scene-investigation
• https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/serial-killers-youngest-middle-oldest-or-an-only-child
• https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/resources/10-modern-forensic-science-technologies
• https://listverse.com/2017/06/12/top-10-cutting-edge-innovations-in-the-future-of-forensic-science/
• https://thefutureofthings.com/10468-5-important-tools-used-forensic-scientists/
• https://www.toptenz.net/10-crazy-improvised-prison-weapons.php
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-27643702
• https://metro.co.uk/2011/06/22/man-hides-in-portable-toilet-at-festival-found-by-woman-53353/
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1569272/Man-who-had-sex-with-bicycle-sentenced.html
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2001236/The-man-who-has-sex-with-cars.html
• http://courtnewsuk.co.uk/bandit-tried-rob-bookies-tin-pilchards/

SOUNDS

• Fanfare - https://freesound.org/people/joepayne/sounds/413203/
• Soda Can - https://freesound.org/people/morgantj/sounds/58846/
• Chips Wrapper - https://freesound.org/people/RuonVNiekerk/sounds/327910/
• Rollercoaster - https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/399376/
• Donkey - https://freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/19836/
• Party - https://freesound.org/people/winsx87/sounds/152026/
• Red Alert Klaxon - https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/350508/

Michael J Buchanan-Dunne is a writer, crime historian, podcaster and tour-guide who runs Murder Mile Walks, a guided tour 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