#32 - The Blackout Ripper Part 8 (The Life of Gordon Frederick Cummins)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 31 May 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The Blackout Ripper Part 8 (of 8): Who was Gordon Frederick Cummins? What incidents in his childhood made him kill? And why would he go on to murder four women in four days in London's West End? Find out in this exploration of the childhood, career, loves and personality of The Blackout Ripper.
- Date: Monday 9th to Thursday 12th February 1942
- Location: West End , London, W1
- Victims: 6
- Culprit: The Blackout Ripper
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| 0:37.5 | Terms apply 18 plus subject to approval. On Thursday the 25th of June, 1942 at a few seconds after 9 a.m. |
| 1:00.5 | In the cold stone execution chamber inside Wandsworth prison |
| 1:04.3 | The cruel life of the West End's most sadistic spree killer was cut short |
| 1:10.0 | By a long drop and a sudden stop. |
| 1:13.0 | As a second and third vertebrae of his neck was snapped, |
| 1:16.0 | severing his spinal cord, |
| 1:19.0 | and in an instant, |
| 1:21.0 | the blackout ripper was dead. |
| 1:26.8 | With the trial concluded, the evidence archived, and the limp body of Gordon Frederick Cummings buried in a pine box. |
| 1:35.0 | The news story ceased and his name was no longer plastered inside of every newspaper. |
| 1:42.0 | As in the minds of the public and the press, the case was closed. |
| 1:49.8 | But in a race to exploit the graphic details of his grisly crimes, |
| 1:54.6 | one important question was never resolved. |
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