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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#282 - The Vice Girl Killer - Part Two (Racheal Applewhaite, London, UK)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This is Part Two 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: Sunday 25th of January 1987 (last seen at 10:30pm)
  • Location: The King's Head, 132 Edgware Road, London, UK, W2
  • Victim: 1 (Racheal Applewhaite / Folke)
  • Culprits: ?


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0:00.0

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0:47.5

Sunday the 25th of January in 1987 at 9.30pm, around the time that the body of Marina Monty lay on a cold, hard slap in Kensington Morty, awaiting a post-mortem.

0:53.5

Rachel Appalweight and an unidentified olive-skinned male

0:56.9

entered the Queen's Head pub, just two streets southwest of Paddington Station.

1:04.6

Said to be so drunk she couldn't walk.

1:07.5

Several eyewitnesses confirmed that she wasn't wearing her usual clothes, a black jumper, a blue denim skirt and blue denim boots.

1:15.6

Instead, she wore a second-hand, navy blue and purple, hotel maid's outfit made of rough polyester,

1:23.6

which being size 12, looked like an embarrassing hand-me-down as Rachel was barely a size 10.

1:30.3

The uniform wasn't hers. Her own clothes were missing. The white bag she was carrying wasn't big enough to hold them.

1:39.3

And she hadn't been back to her flat where her boyfriend Ian was waiting.

1:50.0

This could have been a mildly memorable moment in any pub in West London, but it made the last official sighting of Rachel all more credible,

1:55.0

as she argued and fought with Deborah Mezzan, a prostitute who knew her and had mocked her outfit. Asked to leave, just shy of

2:04.6

last orders. She left with a man who was said to be sober and witnessed the state that he drove

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