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🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In late 1888, five women were brutally murdered in a slum neighbourhood of London. The violent killer earned himself a nickname - Jack the Ripper. But everything you think you know about the murders and those murdered women is wrong.
In a new 15-part series, historian Hallie Rubenhold tells you the real story of those victims and how they came to be in the path of a serial killer - completely overturning the Ripper story we've been told up until now.
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0:00.0 | If you had a chance to pursue your passion at someone else's expense, then would you do it? |
0:07.0 | From truth media and Sony music entertainment. |
0:10.0 | A dark cloud hanging over the city of Dixon is the Rita Cronwell in Bezolman scandal. |
0:15.0 | A story about a hardworking woman who would do anything and pursue it of her passion. |
0:20.0 | Cronwell was charged with the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. |
0:24.0 | Why'd you do it Rita? |
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0:36.0 | Pushkin. |
0:48.0 | It's a bad habit we have. |
0:51.0 | We tell the tale of the murderer and not the murdered. |
0:57.0 | The clock on White Chapel Church was striking half past two. |
1:01.0 | When Ellen Holland watched her friend, Polly Nichols, sway off into the darkness. |
1:07.0 | Polly was drunk, penniless and broken. |
1:11.0 | She was inconsequential in the minds of most people she met. |
1:15.0 | But she was about to cross paths with someone who would give her a grisly, unenviable place in history. |
1:26.0 | In the autumn of 1888, Polly and four other women were brutally killed in a slum neighborhood of London. |
1:33.0 | Their unsolved murders were so violent, so cruel that their killer earned a nickname that is still known the world over. |
1:43.0 | I'm down on halls and I shan't quit ripping them. |
1:47.0 | Jack the Ripper. |
1:54.0 | But in the greatest cold case in history, few of us have stopped to question the basic facts. |
2:00.0 | One fact that you know about Jack the Ripper. |
2:02.0 | That you never got caught. |
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