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#280 - The Grey Man - Part Two (Chiswick, London, England)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This is Part Two of Two of The Grey Man. Across the morning of Tuesday 11th of November 1941, from 8:50am to 10:20am, an armed man dressed in grey went on a killing spree across Chiswick, Hammersmith and Acton armed with two shotguns. It seemed like he was picking off random people, but having spent months rehearsing and surveilling his targets, his mission had a purpose. Of so he thought.


  • 8:50am - Leslie Ernest Ludford & Mrs Violet Mary Pinder outside of 1-3 Hadley Gardens, West London, England,
  • 8:55am - Emma Jane Crisp & Annie New at 1 St Mary’s Grove in Chiswick, West London, England,
  • 9:05am - Mrs Kathleen Irene Guyver of 38 Westcroft Square, shot in Hamlet Gardens, West London, England,
  • 9:15am - Mrs Harriett Fell of 4 Bollo Lane in Acton, West London, shot twice in the arm
  • 9:25am - ACW/1 Winifred Allenby, 24 Hartington Road, shot in Grove Park Road, West London, England
  • 9:49am - Miss Agnes Grace Hunt, shot in Rathger Avenue in Ealing, West London, England
  • 10:10am - Edith Amelia Barringer shot at 5 Brunton Way in West Ealing/Perivale, West London, England
  • Culprits: 1 (Philip Joseph Ward)
  • Method: mass murder by shotgun, killing spree across West London, England


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0:00.0

Tuesday the 11th of November 1941.

0:12.0

Armistice Day.

0:14.0

The Grey Man's Day of Reckoning had come.

0:20.0

8.50 a.m. Leslie L. The Grey Man's Day of Reckoning had come.

0:23.6

8.50am.

0:28.7

Leslie Ludford was murdered in Chiswick as Violet Pender was shot in the legs.

0:31.8

8.55am.

0:37.1

Emma Crisp was gunned down on her doorstep with her sister Annie on the critical list.

0:44.2

9.05 a.m. Kathleen Geifer narrowly escaped her execution in Hammersmith.

0:53.2

In 9.15 a.m., housewife Henriette Hesel had her arm blown off in Acton and was lucky to still be alive.

0:56.0

Two dead, four injured, over three miles and 25 minutes.

1:01.0

Armed with 200 shotgun shells, a tank of fuel, a fast car, a forgettable grey suit and enough food to last two days.

1:10.0

His killings free had only just begun.

1:16.6

Having outrun a truck on Bolo Lane and with armed officers hunting him in his car,

1:21.6

any other mass murderer would have fled. Being calm and calculated, there was no hesitation to his actions, as he wasn't

1:31.8

randomly killing strangers, but specifically targeting those it kept surveillance on for months.

1:39.8

And although he was a wanted man, he headed one and a half miles south and back towards Chiswick.

1:47.0

As the grey man moved on to his next target.

1:56.0

9.25 a.m. Grove Park Road, two streets south of Emma's murder and three streets from his lodging.

2:04.3

The dark blue Hillman Minks drove along this quiet residential street.

2:09.9

It was empty, except for one woman.

2:16.9

24-year-old Winifred Allen P. strode confidently from the supply depot of the Women's

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