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On the night of May 31st 1953 teenagers Barbara
Songhurst and Christine Reed were seen cycling on the Thames Tow Path near
Teddington Lock.
The next morning Barbara's body was found in the river
Thames near Richmond, she had been beaten, stabbed and raped. Five days later
Christine's body was also found.
At the end of the following month Alfred Charles Whiteway
was arrested for raping a woman and assaulting another on Oxshott Heath. During questioning he confessed to the
Towpath murders.
He was tried at the Old Bailey in November 1953 and, despite
trying to make out the police had forged the confession, he was found
guilty. He was hanged at Wandsworth
Prison by executioner Albert Pierrepoint.
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