From Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper Stalks London’s War-Torn Streets

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Here’s a preview of Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper.

Over a single week in February 1942, a depraved serial killer stalked London’s dark and WWII bomb-ravaged streets, hunting for victims in the city’s bars and clubs. But the victims of the so-called Blackout Ripper are now all but forgotten.

Using new research from police files, court transcripts and exhaustive genealogical studies, season 2 of Hallie Rubenhold’s Bad Women reconstructs the lives of the women The Blackout Ripper brutally attacked and murdered and examines why their deaths were swept from view.

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0:00.0	Hi listeners, it's Adam here. Today I'm changing things up a bit and bringing you a preview
0:05.6	of another UK-based True Crime Podcast I'm a huge fan of. It's called Bad Women. In a
0:12.2	gripping first season, historian, Halley Rubenhold, uncovered the true stories of Jack the
0:18.6	Ripper's victims. And now she's back with a new season exploring the lies of the women
0:24.8	murdered by another depraved killer, the Blackout Ripper. Halley takes listeners back to wartime
0:30.7	London. His buildings have been devastated by a rain of bombs and where the streets have plunged into
0:36.2	darkness. Over a single week in February 1942, the Blackout Ripper stalks these streets, hunting
0:44.6	for victims nice after-night in bars and clubs. Using new research from police files, court transcripts,
0:52.6	and exhaustive, genealogical studies, Halley reconstructs the lies of the women that the Blackout
0:59.1	Ripper brutally attacked and murdered. These were women who had dismissed their smear good-time
1:04.8	girls who were asking for trouble for choosing independent lives in the city and who were already
1:11.2	in peril due to the war. In the preview about to hear, Greta Hayward finds herself walking through
1:17.3	the Blackout city with the lured and menacing airman who just won't leave her alone. And with each
1:23.2	step, her panic rises. Will she ever reach safety? Okay, here's the clip. I hope you enjoy it as
1:30.9	much as I did. And you can hear more from bad women, the Blackout Ripper, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:37.8	You're alone on a city street. The darkness is total. It envelops you, pressing in.
1:53.9	You stumble on, not knowing where the sidewalk ends and the road begins.
2:00.0	You brush by a darkened building, bump into an unlit street lamp.
2:04.1	Your desperate to reach safety, for somewhere in this neighborhood, looks a killer who strikes
2:12.9	in the hours of darkness. The cruelty and viciousness of his crimes are unspeakable.
2:21.7	This is not make-believe horror. This really happened and it happened in living memory.
2:28.0	It's a tale you've probably never heard before. A tale of forgotten women murdered in a city without
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