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Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast - #157: The Blackout Ripper: First Blood - Part 1 (Mabel Church)

22/12/2021

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The location of where Mabel Church was murdered at 225 Hampstead Road, long since replaced by flats
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EPISODE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN:
In the second week of February 1942, six women were attacked on consequecutive days across London's West End; two were violently assaulted and four were brutally tortured and murdered. All were attributed to Gordon Frederick Cummins, who would later be dubbed 'The Blackout Ripper'. But was he a one-off spree-killer, or did this sadistic maniac have two more victims in his past?
  • Date: Monday 12th October 1941 at between 10pm and 10:30pm (time of the attack)
  • Location: 225 Hampstead Road, NW1 (demolished)
  • Victims: 1 attacked (Mabel Church)
  • Culprits: 1 (Gordon Frederick Cummins?)
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THE LOCATION
As many photos of the case are copyright protected by greedy news organisations, to view them, take a peek at my entirely legal social media accounts - Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
The location of the attack on Mabel Church is located with a black cross up near the words Summers Town near the top left of the map. To use the map, click it. If you want to see the other murder maps, access them by clicking here.

SOURCES: As this case was researched using some of the sources below.
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1257978
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1257977
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1257976
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1257976
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1257978
  • Evening Standard. 14 Oct 1941
  • Evening Standard. 16 Oct 1941
  • Evening Standard. 13 Oct 1941
  • Evening Standard. 18 Oct 1941
  • Evening Standard. 15 Oct 1941
  • The Guardian, 14 Oct 1941
  • Evening Standard 27 April 1942
  • The Guardian, 29 Apr 1942
  • Evening Standard. 31 Oct 1941
  • The Guardian, 18 Oct 1941
  • Evening Standard. 21 Oct 1941
  • Evening Standard, 20 Oct 1941
  • Bradford Observer - Tuesday 14 October 1941
  • Daily Mirror - Tuesday 14 October 1941
  • Leicester Evening Mail - Monday 13 October 1941
  • Northern Whig - Tuesday 14 October 1941
  • Dundee Courier - Tuesday 14 October 1941
  • Belfast News-Letter - Saturday 18 October 1941
  • Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 14 October 1941
  • Nottingham Journal - Tuesday 14 October 1941
  • Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 14 October 1941
  • Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Tuesday 14 October 1941
  • Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 13 October 1941
  • Bradford Observer - Friday 17 October 1941
  • Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 13 October 1941
  • Yorkshire Evening Post - Saturday 18 October 1941
  • Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Monday 13 October 1941
  • Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 15 October 1941
  • Belfast Telegraph - Monday 13 October 1941
  • The Scotsman - Tuesday 14 October 1941
  • Portsmouth Evening News - Monday 13 October 1941
  • Bradford Observer - Wednesday 15 October 1941
  • The People - Sunday 19 October 1941
  • Daily Mirror - Saturday 18 October 1941
  • Portsmouth Evening News - Friday 31 October 1941
  • Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 31 October 1941
  • Daily Herald - Monday 20 October 1941
  • Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 31 October 1941
  • Daily Herald - Tuesday 21 October 1941

MUSIC: 
  • Man in a Bag by Cult With No Name (Intro and interstitials)
  • Winsome Lose Some by Cult With No Name (credits)
  •  -7 by Cult With No Name (introduction)
  • Winsome Lose Some by Cult With No Name
  • Nocturne by Asher Fulero
  • Spellbound Hell by Damiano Baldoni
  • Antimatter by The Westerlies
  • When Gods Pontificate by Dan Boden 

UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT OF THE EPISODE:


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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", one of The Telegraph's top five true-crime podcasts and featuring 12 murderers, including 3 serial killers, across 15 locations, totalling 50 deaths, over just a one mile walk

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