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Podcast: Murder Mile UK True Crime
Episode: #7 - The Identikit Killing at the Curiosity Shop (Charing Cross, London, W1)
Description: On Friday 3rd March 1961, at 23 Cecil Court (London), 21 year old Edwin Bush would brutally murder 59 year old part-time shop assistant Elsie May Batten whilst attempting to steal a £15 ornamental dress sword. And as shocking as the case was, how the culprit was caught, would be a watershed moment in modern British murder investigations.Date: Friday 3rd March 1961Location: 23 Cecil Court, off Charing Cross Road, Covent Garden, London, W1Victims: 1 (Elsie May Batten)Culprit: Edwin Albert Arthur BushMurder Mile is a true-crime podcast and audio-guided walk of London’s most notorious (and often forgotten) mur...