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#274 - Immoral Earnings (Baron's Court, London, UK)

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

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Summary

#274 - Immoral Earnings.


1st August 1970, 20-year-old Mary McCormack of Limerick was found strangled in her ground floor flat at 85 Talgarth Road in Baron’s Court, W14. With no signs of a break-in, the police suspected it was either a client who she let in, or a tenant with a key. But did the Police convict the right man?

  • Date: 1st August 1970 (roughly 2:20am, police arrived 2:25am)
  • Location: Ground Floor Flat, 85 Talgarth Road, Baron's Court, W14
  • Victims: 1 (Mary Elizabeth McCormack)
  • Culprits: 1 (Alfred Nathan Bain)
  • Method: strangulation with a wire


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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder Mile.

0:10.0

Today, I'm standing on Talgoth Road in Barron's Court, W-14.

0:18.0

Four streets from the cold-blooded couple, Three streets from Little Sonia's killer nanny.

0:25.0

A short walk from the bubbling drum of John George Hague. At the same house, as a killing possibly connected to Charles Manson.

0:34.7

Coming soon to Murder Mar.

0:39.7

At 85, Talgarth Road currently stands a four-story Victorian terrace.

0:46.4

With steps up to the floors above, it still split into flats and bedsets, and looks as rough

0:52.4

dirty as it always did.

0:55.0

Situated off the A4 flyover, its bricks are thick with pollution, and it's the kind of sordid place

1:03.0

you'd expect to see a paedopal hunched over a laptop, or a van full of immigrants being

1:09.1

manhandled inside for sex work and slavery.

1:14.7

It is a distinctly squalid feeling, and for good reason.

1:21.0

In the early hours of Saturday 1st of August, 1970,

1:25.4

in the front-facing Grand Floor flat of 85 Talgoth Road, a 20-year-old

1:31.0

prostitute called Mary McCormack was found strangled. With no obvious break-in, her killer

1:38.9

was either a punter who she let in, or her alleged pimp who had his own key.

1:46.5

But what was the truth?

1:49.4

My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide, and this is Murder Marl.

1:55.6

Episode 274 in Morrill Learnings.

2:09.6

Thank you. for immoral earnings. What follows is based on the declassified court records and eyewitness testimony.

2:19.3

According to the police, their prime suspect in the killing of Mary McCormack was Alfred

2:24.7

Nathan Bain.

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