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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#25 - The Blackout Ripper Part 1 (Evelyn Hamilton)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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

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🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Blackout Ripper Part 1: On 9th February 1942, 41 year old Evelyn Margaret Hamilton was found strangled and posed in an air-raid shelter in Montagu Place (Marylebone). Police had no idea who had murdered her, or that this was the start of a vicious killing spree of The Blackout Ripper.

  • Date: Monday 9th February 1942
  • Location: Montagu Place, Marylebone, London, W2
  • Victims: 1 (Evelyn Hamilton)
  • Culprit: The Blackout Ripper


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Terms apply 18 plus subject to approval. The origins of the word Ripper are uncertain, as although its first recorded use was in the year 1615, to describe a primitive cutting tool used by tanners, couriers and leather workers to rip and tear apart cowhide.

1:09.0

By the late 1800s, in London's east end. The word Ripper had re-entered the modern

1:16.2

parlance with a much darker and deadlier meaning, denoting a murderer who takes

1:22.2

great pleasure in the slashing and tearing of his victim's flesh.

1:27.0

As around the impoverished streets of Whitechapel, a maniac stalked the city's sex workers.

1:36.0

And as gripping as the story of Jack the Ripper is,

1:40.0

even today no one knows his name, his face, his age, his description, his motivation, his

1:48.8

method, the exact span of his murders, which victims he killed, or even if he actually existed at all.

2:02.0

Since then, the term Ripper has only been adopted by the press to describe three British

2:09.0

serial killers or spree killers during their reign of terror.

2:15.0

Jack the Ripper, the Yorkshire Ripper,

2:18.0

and a maniac so terrifying, so fascinating, and yet so unassuming,

2:26.0

that during the dark of the Blitz of World War II,

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