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#276 - Killing for Victory (Greenford, London, Britain)

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

#276 - Killing for Victory


In the evening of Tuesday 20th of May 1941, 28-year-old single-mother Phyllis Crocker and her 18-month-old daughter Eileen went to bed, as usual. Being 3 months pregnant, Phyllis drank a cup of cocoa to help her sleep, as made by her husband. But little did she know it would make her sleep for an eternity.

  • Date: Tuesday 20th of May 1941 (bedtime, exact time unknown)
  • Location: Ground Floor Flat, 9 Goring Way, Greenford, London, UB6
  • Victims: 2 (Phyllis Elizabeth Crocker & Eileen Alice Crocker)
  • Culprits: 1 (Lionel Rupert Nathan Watson)
  • Method of death: poisoning by cyanide, infanticide and burial


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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder Mile.

0:13.4

Today, I'm standing on Goring Way in Greenford, West London, UB6.

0:19.9

Two streets south of the fleeing of the bloody butler.

0:23.5

Two streets west of where Reg Christie met Murrell Ede.

0:27.6

And three streets north of the wood,

0:29.8

where the happy campers befriended a naked Satanist.

0:33.7

Coming soon to Murder Mile.

0:39.8

At Nine Goring Quay, currently sits a two-story whitewashed terraced house on a quiet residential street.

0:48.3

Built in the 1920s as part of the West Ridge Estate,

0:52.8

the double doors shows that it's still split into two small flats as it always was,

0:58.5

with one above and one on the ground floor, where tragedy once struck.

1:05.8

In the back garden stands a patio, where in the years since, somebody's mum has probably given herself

1:12.4

a lobster tan while high on Lambini. Someone's dad probably burned the sausages until they're

1:18.6

blacker and more charcoal covered than a coal miner's winkle. And where someone's kids almost certainly

1:25.8

squealed that ear-splitting screech,

1:28.3

which makes every dog shudder, and even deaf people pray for mercy.

1:36.3

Back in 1941, as the Second World War raged on, this too was a family home.

1:42.3

Having been rented to 28-year-old single mother, Phyllis Crocker, and her 18-month-old daughter, Eileen.

1:50.0

At the height of the Blitz, it was a deadly place to live, and although every day she risked being skewered by shrapnel or blown to smithereens.

2:06.0

This lovely little family will be killed by something much closer to home.

2:13.0

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

2:18.3

Episode 276, Killing for Victory Phyllis knew that life was hard, so to survive, she fought even harder.

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