{"podcast":{"title":"Murder Mile UK True Crime","slug":"murder-mile-uk-true-crime-635698","podcast_index_feed_id":635698,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/0ecc3ab2-c91a-4c9a-b93d-13d97253068e","website_url":"https://www.murdermiletours.com/podcast.html","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/611ea23506c05e0cbaf40bb7/1760956107546-2c27d015-ef86-42c7-b125-b310255278c1.jpeg","author":"Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast","episode_count":473,"summary":"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, Daniel Gonzales 'The Freddy Krueger killer', The Soho Strangler regarded as the second Jack the Ripper, Michael Jamieson The Shoe Box Killer, M4 r*pist John Steed, London cannibal Peter Bryan, and ‘the Devil’s Disciple’ Patrick MacKay, and coming soon, the Hammersmith Nudes alias ‘Jack the Stripper’. As well an unearthing new angle and evidence on infamous British murder cases; such as Gunther Podola, Emmy Werner, David Frooms, Alice Gross, Andrezej Kunowski, Katerina Koneva, Emily Beilby Kaye,…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T12:20:53.617116+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/murder-mile-uk-true-crime-635698"},"episode":{"title":"#364 - Soft Targets (Lichfield, Private William Robert Davies)","slug":"364-soft-targets-lichfield-private-william-robert-davies","published_at":"2026-09-03T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/murder-mile-uk-true-crime-635698/364-soft-targets-lichfield-private-william-robert-davies","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/murder-mile-uk-true-crime-635698","url":"https://shows.acast.com/murdermile/episodes/364-soft-targets-lichfield-private-william-robert-davies","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/murdermile/e/6a7de72283128ee3d2e71b23/media.mp3","summary":"Friday 1st of June 1990, at 5:52pm, three off-duty Army recruits were shot at Lichfield City train station by two members of the Provisional IRA; Privates Robert Parkin & Neil Evans were injured, but being shot twice in the head in an execution style killing, Private William Robert Davies died. But who were his killers, and why were they never tried and convicted? Location: Lichfield City train station, Lichfield, Staffordshire Date: Friday 1st of June 1990, at 5:52pm (murder) Victims: Privates Robert Parkin, Neil Evans & William Robert Davies Culprit: Nessan Quinlivan & Pearse McAuley Seven time nominated at the True Crime Awards, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Cult With No Name and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer . Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA ·           Instagram ·           FaceBook ·           Threads ·           TokTok ·           YouTube SUBSCRIBE via Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Friday 1st of June 1990, at 5:52pm, three off-duty Army recruits were shot at Lichfield City train station by two members of the Provisional IRA; Privates…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4020,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/murder-mile-uk-true-crime-635698/episodes/364-soft-targets-lichfield-private-william-robert-davies/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/murder-mile-uk-true-crime-635698/364-soft-targets-lichfield-private-william-robert-davies.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}