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#154 - The Sadistic Little Drummer Boy - Part One (Kilburn, London, England)

61 min • 2 december 2021

Today’s episode is Part One of Two about 19-year-old Michael Douglas Dowdall. Described as a pathetic little mummy’s boy, his early crimes didn’t just set out to prove his bullies wrong, they also became the first faltering steps of - potentially - a fledgling serial-killer.

Date: Monday 15th December 1958 (poss' day of the murder)
Location: first floor flat, 58 Charteris Road, Kilburn, London, England, NW6
Victims: 1 dead (Veronica Murray)
Culprits: 1 (Michael Douglas Dowdall)
Keywords: psychopath, psychotic, crazed, maniac,

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