London true crime, street by street.
Murder Mile UK True Crime is a London true-crime series built around place, memory, and moral clarity. Each episode anchors a case to a specific street, station, flat, park, or doorway, then follows the evidence into violence, motive, court reckoning, and aftermath.
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Murder Mile UK True Crime treats London as a crime scene with a long memory. The show does not float above the city; it stands on its pavements. Recent episodes begin on North Acton Road, at Charing Cross Station, on Woodfield Road in Ealing, in Hyde Park, in Shepherd’s Bush, and outside a Soho address with a grim history of its own. From there, the narrative tightens. A missing woman becomes a body, a court record, a motive disputed and exposed. A flat above a car showroom becomes a vantage point for stalking. A station becomes a crossing point between older murders, possible victims, modern commuting, and the false comfort of public space. The show’s power is geographical, but its purpose is moral. It is interested in how violence is prepared, hidden, excused, misread, and finally named. Murder Mile UK True Crime is often blunt about offenders and protective of victims. It pushes back against prejudice, especially when a case has been distorted by assumptions about names, photos, class, sex work, race, or vulnerability. The tone is grave and authored, with occasional dry irritation cutting through the dread. That contrast gives the series a human temperature. It can move from a judge’s summing-up to a sharp aside without losing the seriousness of the case. The show also has a visible process: research, story, court detail, then an Extra Mile section where the scripted investigation gives way to looser reflection. Not every moment is polished in the same way, and that is part of the texture. Episodes may include network promotions and ads before returning to the case. The core, though, is consistent. London’s familiar streets are made strange again, not through sensationalism, but through patient reconstruction. For listeners drawn to location-rich true crime, overlooked cases, and narration with a strong ethical line, it has a distinctive weight.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who prefer researched case narratives, London geography, courtroom aftermath, and clear moral framing over casual chat. It suits audiences comfortable with bleak material and detailed reconstructions of violence.
What sets it apart: Its signature is the walking-tour structure: each case is pinned to a real London location before widening into history, evidence, motive, and judgment. The show also pairs scripted severity with an informal Extra Mile section that exposes the work behind the story.
SEVEN TIME AWARD NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards as Best True Crime Podcast. Murder Mile UK True Crime is a unique London-based true-crime podcast, focused on Soho, the West End and West London, presented as a guided walk of 300+ untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murder cases. If you’re looking for intensely researched and in-depth multipart series, Murder Mile has covered spree killer Gordon Cummings aka 'The Blackout Ripper', John George Haigh 'The Acid Bath Murderer', John Reginald Christie of '10 Rillington Place', Anthony Hardy 'The Camden Ripper', Dennis Nilsen 'The Muswell HIll Killer', The Thames Towpath Murderer, D…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed case narration and street-level London geography give Murder Mile UK True Crime a strong sense of place and consequence.
Murder Mile UK True Crime uses London locations as investigative starting points, placing the host near streets, parks and buildings connected to each case before moving into a detailed reconstruction.
A London street corner becomes your way into a murder case, postcode included.
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A location-rich account of Agnes Acom's murder, shaped by DNA identification, court detail, and a chilling betrayal.
Park Royal gives this Murder Mile episode its uneasy shape. Agnes Acom's shallow grave was found near the North Circular, in an area the narration connects to other crime landmarks, before the story moves from DNA identification to the court account of what happened in Paisan's…
A grim police-observation case that ends in court with cold, plain force.
Set in a tiny flat above a car showroom, the episode starts with a room stripped to the basics - kettle, cup, ashtray, takeaway cartons - and turns that bleakness into menace.
A grim murder case built around betrayal, a hard sentence, and a forceful closing warning.
Murder Mile UK True Crime centers Victoria Adams's murder as a violent betrayal after she had offered shelter, and host Adam keeps the focus on the human cost.
Hyde Park gives the murder its frame, and the local history does most of the work.
Murder Mile opens with the killing of a celebrity hairdresser in Hyde Park, W2, and uses South Carriage Drive as the thread that ties that death to other nearby stories of violence and loss.
A romantic date in Berkeley Square becomes a gangland murder, told with menace and clear-eyed restraint.
Murder Mile turns a romantic date in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, into a gangland killing, and it keeps the pressure on without overplaying the twist.
A sober, interview-led true crime episode centered on Jacqueline Ross and the grief left behind.
UK True Crime reaches its 500th episode with a steady, interview-led account built around Jacqueline Ross's husband. It stays close to the loss itself, the attack by a convicted offender three days after release, and the family left to live with what happened.
Blunt case talk from HudsonRiverRadio.com.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
A bonus chat between hosts of Murder Mile and True Crime Enthusiast discussing Patrick Mackay's life and motives.
A live true crime show from CrimeCon London 2025 featuring Murder Mile and UK True Crime discussing the concept of being 'born bad'.
Murder Mile host Michael investigates the 2022 kidnapping, torture, and murder of Mehmet Koray Alpergin and the abduction of his date, Gozde Dalbudak, in London.
Murder Mile host Michael investigates the 1931 double attempted murder of Annie Curtin by her estranged husband William in Soho.
Caroline Jones was found dead on 10 April 1940 at 21 Bronzebury Villas in Kilburn, after surveyor Alfred Scott entered her flat.
Murder Mile UK True Crime follows Agnes Akom’s disappearance from Cricklewood on 9 May 2021 and the Park Royal shipping container where Nikolai Paisan lived off-grid.
Murder Mile UK True Crime follows Alan Peary, the Beast of Belvedere, across Falconwood, Welling, Bursted Woods, and the Dartford Loop.
Murder Mile UK True Crime examines the Beast of Belvedere, a serial rapist who attacked women across the Dartford Loop, Bexley Heath, and North Kent lines between April 1983 and July 1984.
A true crime episode exploring the unsolved crossbow murders of Diana Maw and Jane Salveson in Ealing, London.
Murder Mile UK True Crime #331, "The Kindness of Strangers," follows Victoria Adams and Wynton Apapale Adoum at 22 Coulter Road in Shepherd's Bush, W6, after a homeless shelter meeting on 6 February 2025.
Murder Mile UK True Crime follows André Mislas, a Mayfair hairdresser shot dead on South Carriage Drive, Hyde Park, W2, on 9 November 1970.
Murder Mile's Christmas Special 2025 recasts Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol as a crude script about Eva Green and three Christmas spirits.
A true crime podcast episode previewing the dark history of 3 Peter Street in Soho, including murders and poisonings, with a critique of the current boutique store.
A live true crime show from CrimeCon London 2025 exploring whether Peter Bryan is a cannibal, presented by Murder Mile UK.
A live panel at CrimeCon London 2025 debates whether killers are born bad by examining cases of young offenders.