The Whitechubble murders occurred during a perfect storm of immigration, education and

the birth of tabloid news.

No longer the domain of the elite, newspapers thrived and died by its salacious tales

in easily digestible nuggets to feed the feverish hunger of the semi-literate masses

of the working classes.

The mysterious slaughter of fallen women by a sadistic so-called moral guardian was the

perfect story.

Serialized over several weeks and syndicated across the world with growing gaw and depravity,

the crimes of Jack the Ripper grabbed the headlines for weeks and out of attention for the

next century.

Revealing in exploitative prose, crude sketches of rip tours and each wound emblazoned

in bold.

The penny-papers cared not to wit about the victims or the accuracy of its words, as all

that mattered was the sale of the papers and the lifespan of the story, as the mystery

over the murderer remained.

By the 1930s, newspapers were no longer societies, sole source of information and entertainment,

as owing to an explosion of cinema, theatre, radio and television on the cusp of broadcasting.

The public had their fill of murder, with some killers becoming household names and others

consigned to the side columns.

As with a black outripper, the Soho Strangler was a mysterious series of killings, which

caused terror in Soho's red light district.

As a sadist stalked four unnervingly similar women across neighbouring streets, leaving

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