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🗓️ 25 September 2025
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In this special bonus wrap-up episode of Hanged: Ruth Ellis and the Price of Passion, we step beyond the execution chamber and trace the ripple effects of Ruth’s final act—the shockwaves that forever altered the lives of those left behind. We’ll look at the family who grieved and struggled in the aftermath, the friends and supporters who fought to save her but could not, and even the men whose choices sealed her fate.
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Sources:
A Fine Day for a Hanging: The Ruth Ellis Story, Carol Ann Lee, Mainstream Publishing, 2013.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis
https://realcrimes.co.uk/ruth-ellis-jealousy-rejection-and-a-hanging/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/12/ukcrime.claredyer
https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/history/woman-hanged-ruth-ellis-hampshire-4192091
https://www.crimemagazine.com/ruth-ellis-love-lust-and-death-gallows
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| 1:12.6 | intended for children. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to the special bonus wrap-up of Hank, |
| 1:30.3 | Ruth Ellis and the Price of Passion. In this episode, we stepped beyond the execution chamber and trace the ripple effects of Ruth's final act. |
| 1:37.3 | The shockwaves that forever altered the lives of those left behind. |
| 1:43.3 | We'll look at the family who grieved and |
| 1:45.4 | struggled in the aftermath, the friends and supporters who fought to save her but could not, |
| 1:50.5 | and even the men whose choices sealed her fate. The story didn't end on that July |
| 1:57.1 | morning in 1955. Ruth's children and parents faced heartbreak and tragedy of their own, |
| 2:03.6 | while others, like Desmond Cusson, seem destined to live under the long shadow of her memory. |
| 2:09.6 | Their stories reveal how the legacy of The Last Woman Hanged in Britain |
| 2:14.6 | continued to echo far beyond her death. |
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