#30 - The Blackout Ripper Part 6 (The Arrest)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 17 May 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The Blackout Ripper Part 6: On the morning of Friday 13th February 1942, The Blackout Ripper was caught and arrested, but not for the brutal murder of four women in London’s West End, and the Police had no idea who he really was.
- Date: Friday 13th February 1942
- Location: West End Central police station, Off Regent Street, London, W1
- Victims: 6
- Culprit: The Blackout Ripper
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| 0:37.5 | Terms apply 18 plus subject to approval. Between the 9th and 12th of February, 1942, a sadistic sexual maniac stalked London's |
| 0:59.4 | West End, brutally murdering for women, |
| 1:04.0 | Evelyn Hamilton, Evelyn Oakley, Margaret Florence Lowe |
| 1:07.0 | and Doris Junet, |
| 1:09.0 | and strangling two others, |
| 1:11.0 | Greta Hayward, and Catherine Mulcahy. |
| 1:15.0 | And as much as the government kept a lid on any stories which could cause hysteria, |
| 1:22.0 | none of the blackout Ripper's killings made front-page news. |
| 1:27.0 | Instead, they were relegated to small columns hidden on the inside pages. |
| 1:36.0 | The first recorded use of the term blackout Ripper |
| 1:39.0 | was just one day after Evelyn Oatley's death. |
| 1:46.1 | But with few papers taking up this salacious moniker, even though it was uttered amongst the locals, almost as if he was a |
| 1:51.6 | bogeyman, as soon as the he was a bogeyman. |
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