#273 - A 'Bad' Man (Shepherd's Bush, London, UK)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

#273 - A 'Bad' Man.

On Tuesday 11th August 1936, at roughly noon, in the basement flat of 7 Roseford Gardens in Shepherd’s Bush, 66-year-old widow Elizabeth Fortescue was smothered to death, as her attacker ransacked her flat. Given the violence used against her, the Police suspected “she had died at the hands of a violent man”. But how true was that?

• Date: Tuesday 11th August 1936 (roughly 11:50am)
• Location: Basement Flat, 7 Roseford Gardens in Shepherd’s Bush, W1
• Victims: 1 (Elizabeth Ada Fortschunk/Fortescue, nee Croker)
• Culprits: 1 (Alfred Stratford & Mary-Ann Flynn)
• Method: assault and robbery leading to suffocation and asphyxiation,

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