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Podcast: Murder Mile UK True Crime
Episode: #104 - The 'Elementary' Murder of William Raven (Marylebone, London, W2)
Description: On Thursday 15th October 1942, in flat 34 of Chalfont Court at 236 Baker Street, the body of William Raven was discovered. He was an elegant sociable divorcee and co-owner of a gentleman’s outfitters with no enemies, who was found battered to death in his own bed. Everybody liked him. But was this a bungled robbery, a revenge attack, or was it something a little more ordinary?Date: Thursday 15th October 1942Location: Flat 34 of Chalfont Court at 236 Baker Street, London, NW1Victims: 1 (William Raven)Culprits: 1 (Henry Smith & George Frederick Brimacombe)Note: Henry was acquitted and George was found guilty of...