True Crime Podcasts about Infamous British Spree & Serial Killers

Murder Mile UK True Crime podcast is an in-depth and intensely research podcast using first hand accounts, court records, declassified police files and a wealth of reliable sources to bring you full and rich accounts of the lives, crimes and backgrounds such spree and serial killers as:

• Gordon Cummings aka 'The Blackout Ripper' 
• John George Haigh 'The Acid Bath Murderer' 
• John Reginald Christie of '10 Rillington Place' 
• Anthony Hardy 'The Camden Ripper'
• Dennis Nilsen 'The Muswell HIll Killer'
• Alfred Whiteway 'The Thames Towpath Murderer' 
• Daniel Gonzales 'The Freddy Krueger killer' 
• The Soho Strangler (aka the second Jack the Ripper)
• Peter Bryan the London Cannibal
• Patrick MacKay ‘the Devil’s Disciple'

As well an unearthing new angles and evidence on infamous British murder cases; such as Gunther Podola, Emmy Werner, David Frooms, The Shoe Box Killer, Alice Gross, Andrezej Kunowski, Katerina Koneva, Emily Beilby Kaye, The Denmark Place Fire, The Bombing of the Admiral Duncan, Alfredo Zomparelli, Karl Gustav Hulton, and previously unsolved cases like 'The Night Porter', Gladys Hanrahan, ‘Fat Fred’, The Old Lady Killer, the Bayswater arsonist, the gay panic, and a wealth of cases you won’t have heard before, and won’t hear anywhere else, as well as specialists pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury.

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Gordon Cummings aka 'The Blackout Ripper'. 

In February 1942, across 4 days, British airman Gordon Frederick Cummins brutally slaughtered four woman (Evelyn Oatley, Evelyn Hamilton, Doris Jouannet and Margaret Lowe) in and around Soho, and attempted to kill two others (Catherine Mulcahy & Greta Hayward). This is a full in-dept 10 part series covering his victim's lives in full, the crimes, his motives, his methods, the investigation, his arrest, trial and execution. He never gave a reason. So why did he do it? Find the answer here. 

And what about the earlier murders he was suspected of Mabel Church and Edit Humphries. 

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John George Haigh 'The Acid Bath Murderer' 

John George Haigh aka the “Acid Bath Murderer” swindled, robbed, murdered and dissolved his victims’ bodies in sulfuric acid to eliminate all evidence of his murder. He was a cold, calculated and emotionless murderer who killed Muriel Gardner, Donald McSwann, Amy McSwann, Archibald Henderson, Rose Henderson, and Olive Durand-Deacon solely for their for money. 

This a six part series researched using the declassified police investigation files and the court records, and is the most in-depth podcast series you will hear on this case.  

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Patrick MacKay ‘the Devil’s Disciple'

British serial killer Patrick MacKay launched a horrific robbery and murder spree across West London and Kent in the early 1970s. He was convicted of the brutal murders of Isabella Griffiths, Adele Price & Father Anthony Crean. 

He also confessed or was suspected of EIGHT other murders; Heidi Mnilk, Mary Hynds, a unnamed homeless man, Stephanie Britton, Christopher Martin, Leslie Goodman, Sarah Rodmell, and Ivy Davies. But did he? This series investigates whether he committed these murders, if his confession was a lie, if he was coerced by the police, and whether any of it was true? 

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Peter Bryan the 'London Cannibal'

Schizophrenic: The Real/Fake Peter Bryan covers one of Britain's most infamous serial-killers and cannibals - Peter Bryan. But how much of this story is the truth, an exaggeration or a lie? Who created these myths, why do we still believe them, and what evidence is there of cannibalism? Told in full for the very first time, this is Schizophrenic: The Real/Fake Peter Bryan.

• Part One: Peter's upbringing, symptoms and diagnosis
  
• Part Two: The Murder of Nisha Shesh
• Part Three: The Assault of Girl 'P4'
• Part Four: The "Cannibalism" of Brian Cherry
• Part Five: The Murder of Richard Loudwell
  

This series is primarily based off the Inquest papers into the care and treatment of Peter Bryan (September 2009) and contains details never released before. 

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John Reginald Christie of '10 Rillington Place' 

John Reginald Christie, a British serial killer who murdered vulnerable women at 10 Rillington Place in Ladbroke Grove, London from 1943 to 1953 using deception, gas inhalation, strangulation and necrophilia. His victims were Muriel Eady, Ethel Simpson, Beryl Evans, Geraldine Evans, Rita Nelson, Kathleen Maloney and Hectorina Maclennan. as well as Timothy Evans who was convicted of one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in British history. 

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Anthony Hardy 'The Camden Ripper'

Anthony Hardy the 'Camden Ripper' was convicted in 2003 of three murders: Sally White, Elizabeth Valad and Brigitte MacLennan, having dismembered some of their body parts, found in bins. But how was he acquitted of his first murder, and how did he manipulate so many organisations.This series was researched using the inquest papers into Anthony Hardy;s treatment within the care system. 

The truth about may never be known, as it’s hard to understand who he is, as he appeared to be a different person to different people at different times. By viewing this story from his perspective, it is clear that there were four distinct sides to the personality of Anthony Hardy; the alcoholic, the addict, the sadist and the maniac.

This is a FOUR part series. 

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Dennis Nilsen 'The Muswell HIll Killer'

Dennis Nilsen, aka the 'Muswell Hill Murderer' confessed to killing 15 young men and boys in London between 1978 and 1983; Stephen Dean Holmes, Kenneth Ockendon, Martyn Duffey, William  Sutherland, Malcolm Barlow, John Howlett, Archibald Graham Allan and Stephen Sinclair. This two part series focuses on those who escaped him, Douglas Stewart, Paul Nobbs and Carl Stotter. 

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Alfred Whiteway 'The Thames Towpath Murderer' 

Across May & June 1953, Alfred Charles Whiteway, a violent serial rapist attacked lone women in isolated spots in and around Teddington -  Barbara Songhurst, Christine Rose Reed, Patricia Birch and Kathleen Ringham. But why? What drove him to commit such heinous acts? This series was researched using the original court records and declassified police investigation files. 

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Daniel Gonzales 'The Freddy Krueger killer' 

This is a four-part series on Daniel Gonzales, dubbed the ‘Freddy Krueger killer’, who inflicted a two-day killing-spree across London and the South-East of England which left two injured (Peter King and Koumis Constantinou) and four dead (Marie Harding, Kevin Molloy and Derek & Jean Robinson). But why did he kill? Was he bad, or mad?

This was researched using Daniel's inquest papers which give an interesting insight into his mental health, but more importantly, the failings in his treatment in psychiatric care. 

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The Soho Strangler (aka the second Jack the Ripper)

An unidentified London Serial Killer who murdered four women from 1935 to 1937; Josephine Martin (alias 'French Fifi'), Jeanne-Marie Cotton, Constance Hind (alias 'Dutch Leah'), and Lottie Asterley (alias 'French Marie') in similar ways. Dubbed 'The Soho Strangler' because his victims were strangled with stockings, an electrical flex, a scarf, or a copper wire, each murder had similarities in method, area and motive - not unlike Jack the Ripper, 48 years earlier and three miles east - and although one man was suspected (Norman Stephenson) it remains unsolved. 

This is a ten part series researched using the declassified police investigation files and the court records, and this is the only full and complete telling of this case. 

Covering just 20 square miles of West London, Murder Mile gives into thrilling and heart-wrenching cases involving serial killers, assassinations, massacres, hitmen, torturers, drug dealers, cults, child killers, extortion, prostitution, gangland slayings, abortionists, poisoners, slavery, and personal tragedy.

Having garnered more than 3000+ five-star reviews, Murder Mile has been praised in the press as Podcast Magazine's Hot 50, The Telegraph's Top 5, 4th Best True-Crime Podcast by This Week, iTunes Top 25 Podcast, Crime & Investigation Channel's Top 20 True-Crime Podcasts, also seen on BBC Radio, Sky News, The Guardian and TalkRadio's Podcast of the Week.

Murder Mile has been the primary research on true crime podcasts Casefile, Morbid, My Favorite Murder, and Michael was also a consultant on highly acclaimed podcast series Bad Woman: The Blackout Ripper hosted by historian Hallie Rubenhold, author of 'The Five'.

Murder Mile UK True Crime has had 15 million+ downloads and continues to grow year on year, as it maintains (and improves on) its quality in research, storytelling and sound design. It continually strives to be original, different and always bring the audience a podcast series they can’t hear anywhere else. Murder Mile is unique and its fans appreciate that.