Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare. I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion,

and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.

Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing,

creepy, and oddly comforting about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion

is advised.

Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 84th episode.

I hope that you had a cozy week.

Today, I'm going to continue mixing things up a bit.

Based off of last week's poll, which you can still vote in, by the way, on Spotify on that episode,

you seem hungry for more Victorian true crime.

So today I am going to discuss the most horrific Jack the Ripper adjacent serial killer murder spree,

the Thames torso murder cases of 1887 to 1889. But first, thank you to Regina,

Liselloo, Carla, Gina, and Tremika for subscribing to the Patreon this week. You and everyone who has joined are the reason why my show can continue. Whether you're

subscribing only to the show to hear it ad-free, you subscribe to the extras tier to listen to more

Victorian true crime, or you subscribe to the fan coven to get the show, true crime extras, and

witchy content every single week. You are all making this show possible. It's insane to think that about a year ago,

I lost my job, and I had to sink or swim with this show. And you know what? You guys saved me.

You made my dream come true, and you continue to. So thank you. If you would like to subscribe to

the show, just go to myvictorian Nightmare.com to find out how.

In my previous life, well, my life just over a year ago, I worked in a very small business.

There were just four of us. And to make all of our lives so much easier, my tiny company chose

Gusto for all of our payroll and HR tasks.

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