#288 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part One (John McMain Mudie, Kensington, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This is Part One of Two of The Chalk Pit Murder.
On Thursday 28th of November 1946, Australian politician Thomas Ley enlisted four good people to help him trap a bad man who terrorised women. As a simple plan with no law broken and nobody hurt, it was a gentlemanly reaction to a dastardly crime by a criminal who they felt deserved worse. Only what began as a good deed by four decent and moral people, soon descended into deceit and death.
- Date: Thursday 28th of November 1946 at 7:00pm+ (murder of John Mudie)
- Location: 5 Beaufort Gardens, Knightsbride, London, SW3 (Ley's house, with entrance being on Brompton Place)
- Victim: 1 (John McMain Mudie, known as Jack)
- Culprits: 5 (Thomas John Ley & Lawrence John Smith, plus co-conspirators John William Buckingham Snr, Lilian Florence Bruce & John Buckingham Jnr)
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| 1:14.6 | Today, I'm standing in Beaufort Gardens in Knightsbridge, SW3. |
| 1:20.6 | Four streets west of the gay panic, |
| 1:23.6 | three roads south of the killing of Churchill's super spy, |
| 1:26.6 | four streets west of the unsolved assassination of Countess Lubienska, |
| 1:31.3 | and two roads north of the London Cannibal, coming soon to murder my. |
| 1:38.3 | Beaufort Gardens is one of 46 impressively grand five-story townhouses worth 10 million |
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