Unsolved murder of Blondie and the Royal Navy lover who walked free in Plymouth Blitz
Reginald Strange was not the killer of Beatrice Brown in war-torn and degraded 1940 Plymouth - so who did the awful deed?
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Jealousy amidst the Plymouth Blitz, a pretty woman known as Blondie , a cruel murder straight out of the pages of a gritty crime novel - the killing of Beatrice Loveday Brown remains unsolved after her accused lover was acquitted in court. On the evening of August 29, 1940 the body of 23-year-old Beatrice - known to many as Fair Jean and Blondie - was found in a basement flat of 2 Raleigh Street in the city centre.