Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to the eighth season of down these mean streets.

Now this week's show is going to be a little different.

Instead of focusing on an old time radio detective,

the subject of this episode is a real life villain,

one of the most notorious murderers of all time.

Jack the Ripper stalked the Whitechapel District of London in 1888,

and to this day no one knows who he was or even how many people he killed.

The grisly details of the crimes as well as the identity of the killer have captivated

scholars and readers for well over a century and the Ripper

story has inspired no shortage of novels and films.

In fact one of those films inspired this episode.

I recently watched Murder by Decree, the 1979 film that Pitts Sherlock Holmes against the Ripper.

And if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

Christopher Plummer is Holmes and James Mason is Watson.

It recently came out on a great lookinglooking Blu-ray from Kenel-Lober Studio Classics.

And as I watched the film, I was curious about how radio writers tackled the subject of the Ripper

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