January 5, 2023 • 8 mins
On today's menu: Jack the Stripper. Keyla investigates the known victims of London's infamous Hammersmith Nude Murders. Many of the sex workers were found with paint chips around them and despite police claiming to have a narrow pool of suspects, the murders were never solved. Keyla has a few choice words about that outcome.
Created and hosted by Keyla Young and executive produced by Daniel Fastenau-Jones and Schuyler Fastenau-Jones. Editing and sound design by Schuyler Fastenau-Jones. Theme music by Tracy Zales.
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(00:00):
Hey, what up though? Thisis Kila your Cocktail Ballerina, and I'm
here to bring you the unheard,uncensored, and unrepresented stories of the lifestyle
of a sex worker. Let meknow when y'all ready. What's up,
(00:28):
y'all? I would say house,but fuck it, what's up? House?
I'm kidding. It's Kila your cocktailBallerina, back with another story about
sex workers, murder and all theother fucked up ship that's going on with
(00:48):
these sick people out here, hurtingpeople that just want to make a living.
All right, let's get into it. Hey, y'all heard a jack
the river? But right now,have y'all heard a jack the stripper?
Well? In West London, England, at least six strippers were murdered between
(01:08):
nineteen sixty four and nineteen sixty five, with their bodies being dumped next to
the River Thames. The names wereHannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helen Bartholomy,
Mary Fleming, Francis Brown and BridgetO'Hara. Now Hannah was the first
(01:30):
one. She was the first victimfound on February second, nineteen sixty four.
Hannah had been strangled, her teethwere missing and her panties were stuffed
in her mouth. The next victim, Irene. She was found on April
eighth, not too far from whereHannah had been discovered, So now this
(01:51):
is the same neighborhood. Unfortunately,Irene was pregnant, and her death,
paired with Hannah's and another death inNovember nineteen sixty three, made the police
finally questioned if there was a serialkiller on the loose. Yeah. Think.
Just a few weeks later, inApril twenty fourth, Helen was found
in an alley. This time therewere paint chips near her body, and
(02:15):
the police chooses as their first cluepaint chips, who kills somebody? And
then say, oh, let medrop this paint bucket real quick. Their
next victim wouldn't come until July fourteenth, giving them time to work on tracing
the paint to businesses around the area. Here comes Mary, the July victim.
(02:39):
She was found with paint around heras well. Paint What the fuck
like? Did he paint a houseand say I just want to kill somebody?
I don't understand that. It's crazy. Well, this time the neighbors
were sure they heard a car reversingdown the street around the time she was
found very odd Victim number five Francis. She got into a client's car on
(03:05):
October twenty three and wouldn't be seenagain until November twenty fifth, So she
was going a whole month, andthen all of a sudden, her body
was discovered dumped in a parking lot. Francis's co worker gave the police a
description of the car she'd gotten into, as well as assistance with a facial
sketch of Francis's client. Finally,Bridgets or Birdie as some people called her,
(03:30):
on February sixteenth, nineteen sixty five, she was found by a story
shed with speckles of paint around her. Two, What is going on with
the paint? There was an electricaltransformer nearby, and when the investigation learned
her body had been stored in awarm place, the transformer seemed like a
likely location. The paint around heralso matched that on a transformer. Man.
(03:59):
Now, this is six women founddead and nearly seven thousand suspects interviewed,
and they ain't found nobody, andall of them got paint chips around
them? What the fuck is that? Still? John Darrose, the lead
detective, couldn't crack the case.John, we need somebody else, get
(04:20):
somebody else, because John ain't doingit. Then the police learned the paint
match at the Harn Factory estate,which faced a paint spraying shop. Now
they should have ran up in thereand started investigating people. I bet you
they didn't. John the detective wasexcited, but he foolishly announced to the
(04:41):
public that they narrowed the suspects downto twenty men and then it was ten,
and then it was finally just threelying. Yet it's never been solved,
of course, and the evidence theygather is assumed to be lost or
destroyed. So you didn't solve thecase. Who you know what? I
(05:04):
think it was one of the police, of course, another case of a
police officer jumping ahead at the game, like do your due diligence, you
know what I'm saying. None timesout of ten they don't really care.
And how do you keep track ofseven thousand interviews in one year? I
(05:29):
don't believe it. London is knownfor like dead hookers and exotic dancers or
people in sex work getting murder,and what fucks me up is how they
can never find the perpetrator. Theycan never find a person that's committing all
(05:53):
these murders, I don't care.If it's in an alley, I don't
care. And the fact that paintchips were found around these women, like
what is up with that? Y'allcan't go in there, y'all don't have
I mean, I know it's inthe sixties, but like there's no footprints,
y'all can't look at people's boots,You can't ask questions as far as
(06:15):
like the paint factory. I knowyou interview seven thousand people, but did
you really did you really interview seventhousand people? Because in the sixties,
Like, I don't understand how thatnumber came about over seven you mark down
seven thousand people. I just don'tbelieve that story. I think, honestly,
my opinion, it was somebody thepolice knew and they were protecting him,
(06:40):
because that's what just happens, youknow what I'm saying, Like,
how you interviewing all these other people, but that motherfucker is right up underneath
your nose at the paint factory.Huh. Can't nobody watch the paint factory
and see a motherfucker's dragging a bodywith a paint bucket of paint clothes on
them. It is just bizarre tome. It's weird, and it just
(07:04):
lets me know that creepy motherfuckers willgo so far to protect themselves from the
world knowing how fucked up they are, and especially one of the women was
pregnant, like that's even fucked up. But that's just my take on it.
(07:26):
Well, it is what it is. Thank y'all for tuning in to
the Cocktail Ballerina and I'll see y'allnext week. Bye Baby. Cocktail Ballerina
was created and hosted by Keila Young, an executive produced by Daniel faston now
Jones and Skyler fasten now Jones,who was also the editor and sound designer.
(07:47):
Theme music was created and performed byTracy Zeiles. This was a little
bit fasten Now production to the ISS
Hey, what up though? Thisis Kila your Cocktail Ballerina, and I'm
here to bring you the unheard,uncensored, and unrepresented stories of the lifestyle
of a sex worker. Let meknow when y'all ready. What's up,
(00:28):
y'all? I would say house,but fuck it, what's up? House?
I'm kidding. It's Kila your cocktailBallerina, back with another story about
sex workers, murder and all theother fucked up ship that's going on with
(00:48):
these sick people out here, hurtingpeople that just want to make a living.
All right, let's get into it. Hey, y'all heard a jack
the river? But right now,have y'all heard a jack the stripper?
Well? In West London, England, at least six strippers were murdered between
(01:08):
nineteen sixty four and nineteen sixty five, with their bodies being dumped next to
the River Thames. The names wereHannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helen Bartholomy,
Mary Fleming, Francis Brown and BridgetO'Hara. Now Hannah was the first
(01:30):
one. She was the first victimfound on February second, nineteen sixty four.
Hannah had been strangled, her teethwere missing and her panties were stuffed
in her mouth. The next victim, Irene. She was found on April
eighth, not too far from whereHannah had been discovered, So now this
(01:51):
is the same neighborhood. Unfortunately,Irene was pregnant, and her death,
paired with Hannah's and another death inNovember nineteen sixty three, made the police
finally questioned if there was a serialkiller on the loose. Yeah. Think.
Just a few weeks later, inApril twenty fourth, Helen was found
in an alley. This time therewere paint chips near her body, and
(02:15):
the police chooses as their first cluepaint chips, who kills somebody? And
then say, oh, let medrop this paint bucket real quick. Their
next victim wouldn't come until July fourteenth, giving them time to work on tracing
the paint to businesses around the area. Here comes Mary, the July victim.
(02:39):
She was found with paint around heras well. Paint What the fuck
like? Did he paint a houseand say I just want to kill somebody?
I don't understand that. It's crazy. Well, this time the neighbors
were sure they heard a car reversingdown the street around the time she was
found very odd Victim number five Francis. She got into a client's car on
(03:05):
October twenty three and wouldn't be seenagain until November twenty fifth, So she
was going a whole month, andthen all of a sudden, her body
was discovered dumped in a parking lot. Francis's co worker gave the police a
description of the car she'd gotten into, as well as assistance with a facial
sketch of Francis's client. Finally,Bridgets or Birdie as some people called her,
(03:30):
on February sixteenth, nineteen sixty five, she was found by a story
shed with speckles of paint around her. Two, What is going on with
the paint? There was an electricaltransformer nearby, and when the investigation learned
her body had been stored in awarm place, the transformer seemed like a
likely location. The paint around heralso matched that on a transformer. Man.
(03:59):
Now, this is six women founddead and nearly seven thousand suspects interviewed,
and they ain't found nobody, andall of them got paint chips around
them? What the fuck is that? Still? John Darrose, the lead
detective, couldn't crack the case.John, we need somebody else, get
(04:20):
somebody else, because John ain't doingit. Then the police learned the paint
match at the Harn Factory estate,which faced a paint spraying shop. Now
they should have ran up in thereand started investigating people. I bet you
they didn't. John the detective wasexcited, but he foolishly announced to the
(04:41):
public that they narrowed the suspects downto twenty men and then it was ten,
and then it was finally just threelying. Yet it's never been solved,
of course, and the evidence theygather is assumed to be lost or
destroyed. So you didn't solve thecase. Who you know what? I
(05:04):
think it was one of the police, of course, another case of a
police officer jumping ahead at the game, like do your due diligence, you
know what I'm saying. None timesout of ten they don't really care.
And how do you keep track ofseven thousand interviews in one year? I
(05:29):
don't believe it. London is knownfor like dead hookers and exotic dancers or
people in sex work getting murder,and what fucks me up is how they
can never find the perpetrator. Theycan never find a person that's committing all
(05:53):
these murders, I don't care.If it's in an alley, I don't
care. And the fact that paintchips were found around these women, like
what is up with that? Y'allcan't go in there, y'all don't have
I mean, I know it's inthe sixties, but like there's no footprints,
y'all can't look at people's boots,You can't ask questions as far as
(06:15):
like the paint factory. I knowyou interview seven thousand people, but did
you really did you really interview seventhousand people? Because in the sixties,
Like, I don't understand how thatnumber came about over seven you mark down
seven thousand people. I just don'tbelieve that story. I think, honestly,
my opinion, it was somebody thepolice knew and they were protecting him,
(06:40):
because that's what just happens, youknow what I'm saying, Like,
how you interviewing all these other people, but that motherfucker is right up underneath
your nose at the paint factory.Huh. Can't nobody watch the paint factory
and see a motherfucker's dragging a bodywith a paint bucket of paint clothes on
them. It is just bizarre tome. It's weird, and it just
(07:04):
lets me know that creepy motherfuckers willgo so far to protect themselves from the
world knowing how fucked up they are, and especially one of the women was
pregnant, like that's even fucked up. But that's just my take on it.
(07:26):
Well, it is what it is. Thank y'all for tuning in to
the Cocktail Ballerina and I'll see y'allnext week. Bye Baby. Cocktail Ballerina
was created and hosted by Keila Young, an executive produced by Daniel faston now
Jones and Skyler fasten now Jones,who was also the editor and sound designer.
(07:47):
Theme music was created and performed byTracy Zeiles. This was a little
bit fasten Now production to the ISS
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