#216 - The Good Mother (Marylebone, London, UK)

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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#216 - The Good Mother. On Tuesday 17th of April 1951, Earl de Wolfe requested that Police break into his home at 19 Manchester Street in Marylebone, as he was worried about his wife Gabrielle and their four-year-old daughter Cherill. Having suffered a breakdown, Gabrielle’s mental health was being overseen by the psychiatrists in London, but being treated as a guineapig rather than a patient, her emotional decline would lead to chaos and a murder.

Date: Tuesday 17th of April 1951
Location: Attic Flat, 4th Floor, 19 Manchester Street, W1
Victim: 1 (Cherill De Wolfe)
Culprit: 1 (Gabrielle De Wolfe)
Method: lobotomy, infanticide, child murder, suicide, gas

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:10.0	Today, I'm standing on Manchester Street in Marlebone W1, one street one of the last sighting of René Hanmahan,
0:23.6	two streets southeast of the H.Q, where Churchill's super spy was recruited, then cruelly dismissed.
0:32.6	Two streets south of the lowering to death of William Raven for the sake of a clean pair of underpants,
0:40.5	and one street north of the man who couldn't drown.
0:45.8	Coming soon to murder mile.
0:52.8	Along this long line of four-story brown brick Georgian terraces, with white sills and black wrought iron railings, stands 19 Manchester Street.
1:06.0	Like many buildings of this era, it currently occupies private flats and commercial offices,
1:13.5	some of which are respected businesses, but others, like the solicitors, just two doors down,
1:21.9	are not, as with their Google reviews littered with phrases, like rude, arrogant, unprofessional,
1:30.7	and he needs a lesson in basic human decency.
1:34.7	It's a giggle to read if you've got a minute to spare.
1:41.2	Thankfully, we live in a world where everybody has a voice, and every piece of praise or grievance can be heard by others.
1:52.0	But back in the 1950s, if you wanted a professional's help, you had to rely on word of mouth and trust.
2:00.0	But for many, a posh office, a fancy time. you had to rely on word of mouth and trust.
2:08.4	But for many, a posh office, a fancy title, and a wall of diplomas was enough.
2:25.3	Back in 1951, the attic flat at 19 Manchester Street was the home of 36-year-old Gabriel de Wolf, her husband Earl, and their four-year-old daughter, Cheryl.
2:38.0	With psychoanalysts still in its infancy, many doctors clutched as straws, hoping that any improvement to the patient could aid their understanding. One such patient was Gabrielle de Wolf.
2:43.0	What she needed was help, but what she got was guesswork.
2:50.0	My name is Michael. I'm your life. But what she got was guesswork.
2:58.2	My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile.
3:27.0	Episode 216, The Good Mother. mother. Gabriel de Wolf was born Gabriel Isabella Dane on the 1st of October 19, in Ballarat, in the Central Highlands of Victoria in Australia.
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