#6 - The Deadliest Dentist in Soho (Soho, London, W1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday 18th January 1908, 41 year old Jane Farvish entered her local dentist’s for the first and last time, and yet, although she had a simple problem to solve, her agonising and painful death is not the most shocking element of this case, as although this isn’t a murder (as such), the actions of the man who killed her and the outcome of this story is certain to make your blood boil
- Date: Saturday 18th January 1908
- Location: Soho Drug Stores, 54A Broad Street (now demolished), Soho, London, W1
- Victims: 1 (Jane Farvish)
- Culprit: Isidore Zeifert
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:10.1 | A true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk of London's most notorious and often forgotten murder cases, |
| 0:18.4 | all set within one square mile of the West End. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's episode is a guided walk of the little-known death of Jane Farvish, a humble |
| 0:30.3 | Soho resident with a simple problem to solve, and yet her agonizing, lingering and painful |
| 0:37.0 | death is not the most shocking element of this case. |
| 0:41.6 | And although this isn't a murder as such, the actions of the man who killed her |
| 0:46.1 | and the outcome of the story is certain to make your blood boil. |
| 0:52.4 | Murder Mile contains vivid descriptions which may not be suitable for those of a |
| 0:56.8 | sensitive disposition, as well as photos, videos and maps which accompany this series, so that |
| 1:03.5 | no matter where you listen to this podcast, you feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:10.8 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide. |
| 1:13.6 | This is Murder Mile. |
| 1:16.6 | Episode 6. |
| 1:19.6 | The Deadliest Dentist in Soho. |
| 1:26.6 | Today, I'm standing on Broadwig Street, W1, |
| 1:32.3 | a heavily renovated part of Soho |
| 1:35.3 | that is unrecognizable from the grotty, crumbling, tumble-down slum that it once was, |
| 1:41.3 | a place where no one would choose to live, unless their life took an |
| 1:46.6 | unfortunate turn for the worse. And yet, hints of its former self still exist, as much of this |
| 1:55.3 | partly pedestrianised street is covered in cobbles, speckled with grade 2 listed buildings, and dotted with the |
| 2:02.6 | occasional Victorian street light or bollard, but the rest is all new, bright and shiny. |
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