Murder Mile UK True-Crime #69: The Abominable Mr & Mrs Cox

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46 Calthorpe Street

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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.

Here is a photo of 46 Calthorpe Street, WC2 today, the first floor flat is where Frederick Cox murdered Elizabeth Wakefield.

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EPISODE SIXTY-NINE
On Friday 26th December 1947, Elizabeth Wakefield; an elderly widow who was desperate to remarry for fear of being left on the shelf, moved into the first floor flat at 46 Calthorpe Street with an angry drunken maniac called Frederick Cox who had been convicted of the attempted murder of his entire family. But who was worse – the widow or her killer?

• Date: Friday 26th December 1947
• Location: First floor flat, 46 Calthorpe Street, WC1
• Victims: 1 (Elizabeth Henrietta Wakefield)
• Culprit: Frederick John Cox

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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 46 Calthorpe Street, WC1 where Frederick John Cox murdered Elizabeth Henrietta Wakefield. It is marked with a red !. It's up by the words 'St Andrew's Gardens'. To use the map, simply click it. If you want to see the other murder maps, such as Soho and Paddington, you access them by clicking here

For your enjoyment, here's a short video showing you 46 Calthorpe Street where Elizabeth Wakefield 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.

On the left is the top half of Calthorpe Street today (with no 46 in the distance) and on the right is The Yorkshire Grey public house where Elizabeth loved to booze. It looks as it did in 1947.

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)
  
• Piano Piece 2 by Cult With No Name
  
• Everyone’s The Butt of the Joke by Cult With No Name
• Inner Mental Cage by Controlled Insanity
• Delirium by Kai Engel
• Serenity by Parvus Decree
• Modum by Kai Engel
• Western Shores by Phillip Weigl
• What Does Anyone Know About Anything by Chris Zabriskie
• Plague by Kai Engel

SOUNDS:
Aerosol Spray - https://freesound.org/people/WeeJee_vdH/sounds/267709/
Rusty Bike – https://freesound.org/people/debsound/sounds/431472/
Underwater - https://freesound.org/people/Abolla/sounds/213914/
Submarine Klaxon - https://freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/203562/

SOURCE: The murder of Elizabeth Henrietta Wakefield by Frederick John Cox at Calthorpe Street, WC1 - http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1258327

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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