#272 - Red Mist (Marylebone, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
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#272 - Red Mist
On Sunday 31st July 1949, just before midnight, Michael Martin unleashed a violent attack on a defenceless 53-year-old prostitute known locally as ‘Mona’. To the press, it seemed like an all-too-familiar story of a destitute woman who was brutally murdered by a horny drunken punter, but with time and infirmity catching up with all of us, this anonymous streetwalker’s death marked the end of an amazing criminal.
- Date: Sunday 31st July 1949 (roughly 11:50pm)
- Location: Room 12, 45 Manchester Street, Marylebone, London, W1
- Victims: 1 (Annie Beamish, aliases Margaret Reid, Maggie Reid, Mona Reeves, Monica Reeves, Elsie Brown)
- Culprits: 1 (Michael Joseph Martin, alias Danny)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:12.4 | Today, I'm standing on Manchester Street in Marlebone W1, a short walk south of the brutal |
| 0:20.5 | slaying of Sharon Pickles. |
| 0:23.0 | Two roads east of the killing of William Raven. |
| 0:26.6 | Two doors down from the failed lobotomy of Gabrielle de Wolfe. |
| 0:31.0 | And the same house as the tragic rags. |
| 0:34.7 | Coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 0:40.3 | At 45 Manchester Street currently sits a four-story, brown-bricked, grade-two-listed townhouse from the 1780s. |
| 0:50.3 | Being renovated into pricey flats for society's elite. Its brochure is probably filled with |
| 0:56.5 | beautiful people lounging in pristine rooms on shiny metal chairs while sipping swanky cocktails. |
| 1:04.2 | So it might as well just say, no fatties, no foreigners and no dull scum. And if you didn't |
| 1:10.6 | school in Eaton, you didn't holiday at |
| 1:12.7 | Monty. And ever once in your life if you've eaten a Pringle, this is not the place for you. Thank you |
| 1:19.4 | and good day. I said good day. Back in 1949, this was a 14-roomed lodging house occupied by manual labourers and impoverished families, |
| 1:33.3 | many of whom worked in the local factories. |
| 1:37.3 | In room 12 on the third floor, a quiet young man who assisted in the local theatre had recently moved in, and by all accounts he was no trouble at all. |
| 1:50.0 | But on Sunday the 31st of July, 1949, just before midnight, he would unleash a violent attack on a defenceless 53-year-old prostitute known locally as Mona. |
| 2:03.6 | To the press, it seemed like an all-too familiar story of a destitute woman who was brutally murdered by a horny drunken punter. |
| 2:13.6 | But with time and infirmity catching up on all of us, this anonymous streetwalker's death marked the end of an amazing criminal. |
| 2:26.6 | My name is Michael, I'm your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
| 2:33.8 | Episode 272, Red Mist. |
| 2:37.0 | On a non-specified date, in August |
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