#172 - The Sacred One (Regents Park, London, Britain)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Back in the 1920’s, London Zoo had two elephant experts; Sayed Ali and San Dwe. They lived on site, they loved their elephants, and - according to the zoo’s owners - everything was going swimmingly. That was until the night of Friday 24th August 1928, when Sayed was found beaten to death in his bed. But who would want to murder this little man, and what did it have to do with the most sacred of elephants?
- Date: Friday 24th August 1928 at roughly midnight
- Location: Tapir House, London Zoo, Regent's Park, London, UK, NW1
- Victims: 1 (Sayed Ali)
- Culprits: 1 (San Dwe)
- Keywords: jealousy, elephants, kiling
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:15.3 | Today, I'm standing in London Zoo on the northeast corner of Regions Park, NW1. |
| 0:23.5 | A short walk from the first two possible murders by the Blackout Ripper. |
| 0:29.2 | The discovery of the strangely reverent body of Rennie Hanrahan, |
| 0:33.8 | and the scattered remains of the sex pest who crept. |
| 0:40.3 | Coming soon to murder mile. |
| 0:56.0 | Established in 1828 as the London Zoological Society, London Zoo has provided education to the city's citizens for almost 200 years. It's a wonderful place to experience animals, |
| 1:00.0 | beyond London's persistently shagging foxes, |
| 1:04.0 | scuttling buck-toothed rats, |
| 1:06.0 | and our infamously deformed pigeons. |
| 1:10.0 | As here, kids can giggle at the bright red butt cheeks of baboons |
| 1:14.6 | and go ooh at the large piles of poo. |
| 1:23.6 | London Zoo has thousands of animals, |
| 1:26.6 | where the lions, tigers, camels, crocodiles, |
| 1:30.3 | apes, fish, penguins, snakes, spiders, and even Komodo dragons. |
| 1:36.3 | But they don't have elephants. |
| 1:40.3 | With the last having left to live at Whipsnade's Safari Park in 2001, this ended the long tradition of elephants at the zoo. |
| 1:50.0 | Back in the 1920s, London Zoo had two elephant experts, Saeed Ali and Sandui. |
| 2:00.0 | They lived on site. They loved their elephants. Said Ali and Sandhui. |
| 2:01.5 | They lived on site, they loved their elephants, and according to the zoo's owners, everything |
| 2:08.3 | was going swimmingly. |
| 2:12.9 | That was until the night of Friday the 24th of August 1928, |
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