#273 - A 'Bad' Man (Shepherd's Bush, London, UK)

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

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#273 - A 'Bad' Man.

On Tuesday 11th August 1936, at roughly noon, in the basement flat of 7 Roseford Gardens in Shepherd’s Bush, 66-year-old widow Elizabeth Fortescue was smothered to death, as her attacker ransacked her flat. Given the violence used against her, the Police suspected “she had died at the hands of a violent man”. But how true was that?

Date: Tuesday 11th August 1936 (roughly 11:50am)
Location: Basement Flat, 7 Roseford Gardens in Shepherd’s Bush, W1
Victims: 1 (Elizabeth Ada Fortschunk/Fortescue, nee Croker)
Culprits: 1 (Alfred Stratford & Mary-Ann Flynn)
Method: assault and robbery leading to suffocation and asphyxiation,

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:12.0	Today, I'm standing on Rose for the Court in Shepherd's Bush, W12.
0:18.0	Three streets east of the Savage Prince, opposite the shoebox killer's last attack,
0:24.8	next door to the petrol station where the first-aid killer had a body in a boot,
0:29.9	and three streets north of the Bongo basher. Coming soon to Murder Mile.
0:38.5	Built in 1968, on the south side of Shepherd's Bush Green
0:42.4	stands a block of flats called Roseford Court,
0:47.2	named after the road demolished to make way for it.
0:50.3	Roastford Gardens was a quaint set of Victorian terraces,
0:56.2	where everybody probably suffered from TB, rickets, typhoid, and had one tooth between them.
1:02.8	In 1936, the basement of seven Roseford Gardens was home to 66-year-old widow, Elizabeth Fortescue, an unassuming woman who went about her life
1:14.3	without grumbling or causing a fuss. She did right by those she lived with, and deserved to live a long
1:21.9	and happy life. And yet by opening her door to a person of pure evil, it was said she died at the hands of a violent man.
1:33.3	But how true was that?
1:36.3	My name is Michael. I am your tour guide. This is Murder Mile.
1:43.3	Episode 273, A Bad Man guide, this is Murder Mile.
1:47.6	Episode 273, A Bad Man.
2:06.8	Elizabeth Fortescue was born Elizabeth Ada Coker on the Hallows Eve of October 1869 as one of two sisters to a working-class couple, William and Sarah Coker.
2:13.8	Raised in Marlebone and living local most of her life.
2:19.7	She was a Londoner through and through and rarely saw behind the same streets in her early days.
2:25.6	Her life wasn't tragical sad,
2:28.3	as although far from well off, she was rich in spirit,
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