#281 - The Vice Girl Killer - Part One (Marina Monti, London, UK)

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This is Part One of Three of The Vice Girl Killer.

On the weekend of the 24th and 25th of January 1987, two sex-workers vanished from two street (Sussex Gardens and Cleveland Terrace) near to Paddington Station. With their beaten, strangled and mutilated bodies found barely 24 hours apart in places where they didn't belong. The police quickly confirmed that a crazed killer was on the loose. But still unsolved today, it remains one of the most perplexing unsolved double murders in Britain. But who was he?

Date: Saturday 24th of January 1987 (last seen at 10:30pm)
Location: Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London, UK, W2
Victim: 1 (Marina Alexandra Monti)
Culprits: ?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:10.0	Today, I'm standing on Sussex Gardens in Paddington, W2.
0:17.0	The street where Doris Junae became the Blackhead ribbers last victim, where Agnes Walsh was
0:23.8	brutalized by the sad-faced killer, where Ruby Bolton, Sharon Pickles and Kathleen Maloney
0:30.0	picked up punters, and where Amanda Walker was last seen before being brutalized by the
0:36.7	sadistic honey monster, coming soon to
0:40.0	Murder Mile.
0:42.2	As a busy tree-lined street just south of Paddington Station, by day Sussex Gardens, it's
0:50.0	a peaceful row of cheap B&Bs. But by night, it's a one-stop shop for the drug adult and the sexually desperate.
1:00.0	With cars pulling up on every corner to greet a shivering wreck in a mini skirt and fishnet tights,
1:07.0	having bartered a price for her pussy, what follows is either grunting in a doorway or a head bobbing in a bush,
1:14.6	as their feet dodge heroin needles like a spiky assault course, and crack addicts straining to shit.
1:23.6	It may seem like a nightmare, but as we've seen so many times before, this is a place where
1:30.1	for more than a century, destitute women have traded their bodies to bad men, some of
1:36.5	whom have ended up dead.
1:41.0	On the weekend of the 24th and 24th January in 1987, two sex workers vanished from these streets just south of Paddington Station.
1:50.0	With her beaten, strangled and mutilated bodies found barely 24 hours apart,
1:57.0	the police quickly confirmed that a crazed killer was on the loose.
2:02.5	But who was he?
2:05.3	My name is Michael.
2:07.2	I'm your tour guide and this is Murder Mile.
2:11.5	Episode 281, The Vice Girl Killer, Part 1.
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