A Triumph Of Scotland Yard - May 31 2023

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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May 31st: Towpath Murders Take Place (1953) When cases happen decades in the past, it’s hard to tell if justice was really served. On May 31st 1953 two young women lost their lives in a case that was considered a triumph by Scotland Yard after the killer was finally brought down by extensive police work. A man who claimed his innocence and that the investigators manufactured his guilt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towpath_murders, https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/the-towpath-murders-death-on-the-river-bank, https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/whiteway-alfred.htm, https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/noartistknown/aug-08-1953-man-accused-of-towpath-murders-appears-at-richmond-magistrates-court-alfred-charles/photograph/asset/4872395 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	I found my great-grandma Annie in the 1921 census on ancestry. I discovered she was widowed
0:35.9	in the First World War, living in York, raising six children
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0:56.1	more records free until the 9th of March. Terms apply. There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
1:02.8	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. We have a weird homicide.
1:09.0	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
1:12.6	When cases happened decades in the past, it's hard to tell if justice was really served.
1:21.0	On May 31st, 1953, two young women lost their lives in a case that was considered a triumph by Scotland Yard
1:29.8	after the killer was finally brought down by extensive police work,
1:34.2	a man who claimed his innocence, and that the investigators manufactured his guilt.
1:40.3	So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,
1:43.4	sit back and start your day with a morning
1:45.7	cup of murder. As the rest of the nation prepared for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation
1:52.1	in the summer of 1953, residents of Teddington were reeling over the grisly discovery of two dead
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