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Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

387 // Jack the Ripper As An Artist w/ Gavin Whitehead

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are joined by first time guest and current friend of the show, Mr. Gavin Whitehead. Gavin hosts the excellent historical true-crime show, The Art Of Crime. This conversation explores the theory that the notorious Jack the Ripper was actually an artist living, working and murdering in Whitechapel. It's a fascinating discussion that features the likes of Lewis Carroll, Walter Sickert and Richard Mansfield. Be sure to check out all the episode by visiting https://www.artofcrimepodcast.com/ Follow Gavin: Twitter - https://twitter.com/artofcrimepod Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Art-of-Crime-Podcast-108541465241841 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod  Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound  Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?

0:32.6

Doing fantastic today, Tim. I hope everyone out there who's listening. I hope you're all doing as fantastic as I'm

0:38.0

feeling. I am very excited about bringing new guests to our listeners' ears, especially when we

0:44.1

make these new friends and we hit it off. We have a really good rapport with the upcoming guest.

0:48.6

But Tim, I want to have a good rapport with you. And in order to do so, I need to know how you're doing.

0:53.3

How are you? I'm doing great. Thanks a lot

0:55.7

for asking. I appreciate the buildup there. Yeah, we had a great conversation with a fellow podcast

1:02.2

host. His name is Gavin Whitehead and he does a great show called the Art of Crime podcast. In this

1:08.7

conversation, we spoke about a lot of things, but mostly Jack the Ripper.

1:13.5

And in this conversation with Gavin, I told a quick story about the time when I was working at a

1:17.9

restaurant in Boston and my fellow coworker dressed up as Abraham Lincoln for Halloween.

1:23.5

And I dressed up as John Wilkes Booth. Now, I hadn't spoken with this person in over a decade,

1:29.9

and I reached out to him to see if he had this picture that existed of me and him in a pose

1:36.3

representing John Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincoln.

1:39.4

And remarkably, he gets back to me, and even more remarkably, he has the picture.

1:44.4

For those who are listening to this episode, once you hear us reference that picture,

1:48.6

it is featured in the YouTube video, and it is of me as John Wilkes Booth,

1:54.0

aiming a fake pistol at my coworker dressed as Abraham Lincoln as he is simulating watching our American cousin. So a big thank you to my

2:04.1

former coworker for coming through in the clutch for us for this episode. Wow. Well, yeah,

2:11.8

listeners, make sure to check that out. That's going to be posted on our social media pages as well,

2:16.7

so you can find that

2:17.5

at CrawlSpace Podcast or Crawl Space Pod. And it's pretty challenging to cover a case like

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