![]() ![]() On the night of his murder, Danny had finished his shift at the Press Club, and headed over to the Mayling Supper Club. He’d been shot once in the back and twice in the head. On September 15, 1954, Danny Brent’s body was found on the 10th green at UBC’s golf course. For the next half century, police searched for a missing brother and sister, and it wasn’t until 1996, when DNA profiling became part of the forensics toolkit, that investigators reopened the file and found they were dealing with two brothers. While the murders likely happened in October 1947, the story starts in January 1953, when a Vancouver Park Board employee stepped on a skull in a remote area of Stanley Park. The Babes in the Woods case-the story of two young children found dead in Stanley Park-is one of Vancouver’s oldest unsolved murder mysteries. Now available at Indigo, Amazon and your local bookstore. Įxcerpted from Everything British Columbia: The Ultimate Book of Lists, a new book written by Vancouver journalists Bethany Lindsay and Andrew Weichel. She is also the host of the true crime podcast Blood, Sweat, and Fear. Written by crime historian, blogger, podcaster and author Eve Lazarus. Lazarus’s passion for history and fascination with murder has led to six books of non-fiction.
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