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Podcast: Murder Mile UK True Crime
Episode: #3 - The Bedfordbury Baby-Batterer (Covent Garden, London, WC2)
Description: On Saturday 5th September 1901, two year old Thomas James Mills was brutally beaten to death by his death by his depressed, unemployed and alcoholic father, but what initially seemed like a simple case of infanticide may actually be a lot more complicated, and although almost entirely forgotten, it is a murder case which will give you a shocking insight into the brutal and cruel life as a pauper living in one of London’s worst slums.Date: Saturday 5th September 1901Location: 3 Bedfordbury, Covent Garden, London, WC2Victims: 1 (Thomas James Mills)Culprit: James John Richardson Murde...