#171 - The Girl with a Smile for Everyone - Part Two (Regents Park, London, Britain)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday 1st October 1947, at 10:30pm, the body of Renee was found in Regent’s Park, three miles east. She had been gagged, strangled and beaten. What she was doing there? Nobody knows.
But it was entirely out of character for a girl who rarely stayed out late and never walked in dark parks with strangers. And yet, she was found right there, and the last five hours of her life are unknown.
So, what happened to Renee? What was she doing in Regent’s Park after dark? Who did she meet and why? And what does this street and the location of her uncles’ off-license on St Ervan’s Road have to do with her death?
- Date: Wednesday 1st October 1947
- Location: Cumberland Green, Regent's Park, London, UK, NW1
- Victims: 1 (Gladys "Renee" Margaret Irene Hanrahan)
- Culprits: 1 (Albert "Bert" Butler)
- Keywords: unsolved, Regent's Park, killing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:16.5 | Today, I'm standing on St Irvine's Road in Westbourne Grove, W10. |
| 0:22.6 | Two streets north of the Landau House murders, |
| 0:26.6 | two streets east of the cinema where Reg Christie was once a projectionist, |
| 0:31.6 | and a short walk from the last tragic moments in the sad life of Lena Cunningham, coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 0:44.3 | The original buildings on the eastern edge of St Irvine's Road were demolished in the 1960s |
| 0:50.3 | to make way for the A-40 flyover. A delightful concrete monstrosity, |
| 0:57.0 | which blots out the horizon |
| 0:59.0 | with a grey sunset of hazy smog, |
| 1:02.0 | a bird song of roaring trucks, |
| 1:05.0 | and a hooty jam of window-lickers |
| 1:08.0 | heading to a job they hate. In the pursuit of progress, the off-license |
| 1:15.6 | at 7 St. Irvine's Road was erased. Taken with it, the home of William Reason, |
| 1:21.6 | Daniel Hanrahan, his daughter René, and the tragedy which befell this loving family. Her home was three miles |
| 1:32.1 | west of where her body was found. No one knows how she got there, where she had been, and more |
| 1:39.7 | importantly, why anyone would murder someone so shy, kind and beloved? |
| 1:45.0 | Believe in this lone girl must have been attacked in a dark park by a random stranger. |
| 1:53.0 | The residents of St. Irvin's Road were left in shock. |
| 1:58.0 | And yet, a greater shock was yet to come, as this was a murder as ordinary as any other. |
| 2:07.1 | And this street wasn't just where she lived, but also where her killer called home. |
| 2:15.6 | My name is Michael, I am your tour guide. This is Murder Mile. |
| 2:22.0 | Episode 171, The Girl with a Smile for Everyone, Part 2. A smile can do many things. |
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