#29 - The Blackout Ripper Part 5 (Greta Hayward and Kathryn Mulcahy)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Blackout Ripper Part 5: Before the brutal murder of 34 year old Doris Jouanett on Thursday 12th February 1942 at roughly 11pm, The Blackout Ripper had attacked two more women in London's West End - Greta Hayward and Kathryn Mulcahy - but why did his killing spree abruptly come to an end?
- Date: Thursday 12th February 1942
- Location: St Alban's Street & 29 Southwick Street, Piccadilly, London, SW1
- Victims: 2 (Greta Hayward & Kathryn Mulcahy)
- Culprit: The Blackout Ripper
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| 1:05.0 | With the country desperate to clear its cells for the true enemies of the state, such as spies, |
| 1:11.0 | traitors, lootersers and deserters, |
| 1:14.4 | and in short supply of eligible young men for conscription. |
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| 1:22.2 | were granted their freedom. |
| 1:26.4 | Boied by a sense of national pride, some prisoners enlisted, but others did not. And with the city's short-unexperienced police officers, |
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