EP215: The Blonde Bombshell Killer

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ruth Ellis was a beautiful platinum blonde who occasionally modeled in 1950s England. The mother of two children and divorced, Ruth met a man who would change the trajectory of her life forever--David Blakely. Ruth and David began a volatile love affair, one wrought with lies and bitter jealousy, that ended with one of them dead and one getting sent to the gallows. Listen to this week's episode to hear more!

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature,
0:03.0	including descriptions of physical and sexual violence
0:06.0	against adults, children, and animals.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Hi, everyone, I'm Tlaia. advised.
0:12.7	Hi everyone, I'm Tlaia.
0:14.1	And I'm Tanya.
0:15.3	And together we are Crimes and Consequences,
0:18.3	a true crime podcast. cast. Welcome back everyone to another episode of crimes and consequences. I am Tanya and
0:40.9	this is my lovely co-host to Leah and we are attorneys in real life
0:46.7	who love to dive into these cases I don't know if love is the right word but are fascinated. Yeah
0:54.3	fascinated and you must be too since you're watching so before I get into today's
0:58.5	story just like to remind everyone to hit like or subscribe if you're watching us on YouTube on the
1:04.9	true crime daily YouTube channel. Thank you. Yes, thank you, true crime daily.
1:10.0	Please hit the like and today's story that I'm going to tell is about a red-hot love affair that ended in murder.
1:19.0	Oh, but not in the way you think.
1:21.0	Okay? Because you're probably thinking a certain
1:25.2	stereotypical way of murder.
1:27.5	But anyway, passion.
1:29.6	Yeah, passion.
1:30.6	So the woman in the story, her name is Ruth Ellis. She met David Blakely in
1:36.4	August of 1953. After she initially met him, I don't think she liked him very
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