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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#192 - I Love Him, But... (Hyde Park, London, British)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

History, Society & Culture, True-crime, London, English, Uk, British, Murder, True Crime, Killer, Crime, Documentary

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🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Just shy of midnight on Wednesday 26th August 1942, across a wooden bench on Lover’s Walk sat 44-year-old Gladys Wilson and her lover Second Lieutenant Ronauld Kurasz of the Polish Army. Both being married to others who the war had split apart, neither Glady nor Ronnie had planned to have affairs, as like so many others, they were just seeking a little affection during a turbulent time of loss and grief. 


After ten days of romance, being sat holding hands, they both knew their relationship was to end. But where-as she would see their love as fleeting, for him their love was forever… in both life and death.


Found after her death, Gladys had written nine truly tragic words in her diary. The first four of which were “I love him, but…”. The question was, but what?

  • Date: Wednesday 26th August 1942 at 11:40pm
  • Location: Lover's Walk, Hyde Park, London, Britain, W2
  • Victims: 1 (Gladys Wilson, nee Pearson)
  • Culprits: 1 (Second Lieutenant Ronauld Kurasz)
  • Method: murder and suicide,


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1:29.8

Today I'm standing on Love as Walk in Hyde Park, W2.

1:36.8

One street west of the last sighting alive of Ruby Bolton, a short walks out west of

1:42.6

the last night of Funbud Bloody Butler, one gate down from the suicide and murder of

1:48.8

the former lovers Julia Mangan and Robert Williams.

1:53.4

And in another odd mirror of both tragic cases, the death factor of a couple who failed

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