The Stockwell Strangler: Kenneth Erskine
In the spring of 1986, London’s elderly started dying in their beds.
A pensioner under the covers. A tidy room. A death that looked natural — until the television was missing, and the post-mortem said otherwise. Then it happened again. Men and women in their seventies, eighties and nineties, killed alone in the one place they were supposed to be safe.
The press called him the Stockwell Strangler. His name was Kenneth Erskine. He was twenty-three: a burglar, a drifter, and the man police tied to seven murders in four months.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of the hunt, the trial, the…
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