Karen Kilgariff

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark · 467 - Nipper & The Hat · 13 Feb 2025 podcast

Damn it. I was trying to send it to you. Thank you. I was going to say pathologically. $100,000 for the rights to cover it. Ronnie accepts the offer, takes the money, presumably. We don't have proof. And then, interestingly, his marriage to Elaine is over within a few years. Yeah. I mean, he worked the son. That's kind of great. Totally. That's a lot of money.

These guys are really good at being kind of Robin Hood-esque. Yeah. Except for the murder. Right. Ronnie Cray dies at Broadmoor in 1995 at the age of 61 after a heart attack. Reggie Cray, meanwhile, bounces around to different prisons until the year 2000 when they release him on compassionate grounds because he's dying of cancer. Wow. Reggie dies a few weeks later on October 1st at the age of 66.

Today, the Cray brothers are buried side by side in London next to their parents. And even after their deaths, the Cray twins continue to fascinate the public. And their twisted underdog story has inspired a niche industry of books, movies and TV shows and true crime podcasts.

This includes the 2015 film Legend, where the great Tom Hardy gives a dual blockbuster performance as both brothers in one movie. If you haven't seen it, it really is the best. I haven't. I'll watch it. It's also just a really, in my opinion, beautifully directed film and very compelling, but it's just so good and he's so different. The two brothers are so different.

He's not just a pretty face. He's not. Let's just start crying. There's also a 1990 film starring Martin and Gary Kemp as the Kray brothers. It's called The Krays. And if you're not old, then you probably don't know the Kemp brothers were the bass and guitar players for the band Spandau Ballet. Oh, wow. Yeah. So they were kind of already famous British.

And then somebody wanted to make the Krays movie. And they're like, those guys are brothers. They're badasses. They wear jackets really well. Today, the Cray brand remains strong. Many continue to capitalize off of it. There are now gangster walking tours in London that roll through the areas where Ronnie and Reggie used to hang out, including London Walks at walks.com.

Go ahead and get your Cray's walking tour over there. Full circle. And the pub The Blind Beggar, where Ronnie killed George Cornell, also benefits from the connection to the craze. Reporter Duncan Campbell notes, quote, you can take a selfie in the place where Cornell was shot and the pub sells crazed DVDs for 20 pounds and a crazed walk booklet for three pounds.

Not only that, but I, in looking on that website, found that there's a walking tour called Darkest Victorian London, which I beg anybody that can get to it to please take and then write into myfavoritemurderatgmail.com and tell me everything about the Darkest Victorian walking tour. That's your dream. There's also a virtual walking tour of Jane Austen's bath, which I want.

You have to walk on a treadmill in your own home.

It's just kind of virtual like, you know, think about walking while you watch it. Done. And that's the story of the notorious East Ender twin gangsters, the Krays.

Let's do this. Poor man's copyright. Don't try to do it. We're doing it. But it's also like you're on a treadmill, but then like a ghost from Scooby-Doo kind of just flies through. Right. Yeah. That's a great idea. It's great. Sorry.

And it's about to happen. You're like, and this is the American Revolution.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, like, we do what we can do week to week. Right. All right. Let's do it. Let's dig in.

I mean, I think it's that piece where a lot of us had the little factoid in our heads every time we flew, which is it's more common to be killed in your own bathroom.

Right. But I think when we see any kind of air disaster in the news, it shakes that kind of comfort that we hold on to very, very dearly. Right. On top of this kind of governmental crumbling vibe, which then you're like, well, that's going to, you know, it's easy to then begin to write what's going to happen.

Very true. Except I would just like to remind everybody that one step you take off the bath mat and there's a little water on your... It's like tile floor. I did that the other day and caught myself. I was like, I could have just cracked my head so hard. And it was like a fast one that I then caught. And I was like, oh my God, thank God I caught myself. That's terrifying. Yeah.

Everything's terrifying, guys. Everything is terrifying. We can do this. Just walk slowly, you know, keep the ground dry.

We're going to be doing this a lot. It's people, one million people are going to get on planes today and be fine.

Yeah, that was a Boeing. It would be amazing. No, it's just that it's like those the plane crashes from the 70s feel like a lot of them were Pan Am. Yeah. Or like when it's like when you hear the phrase Pan Am flight and then a number. It's like it gives me agita.

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