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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

Last time on Hanged, Ruth Ellis and The Price of Passion.

Ruth Ellis was born into hardship, raised in a household marked by poverty, abuse, and emotional neglect. She escaped at her first opportunity. By her mid-teens, Ruth was a single mother

navigating post-war Britain on her own, doing whatever it took to survive. She worked as a waitress,

a factory girl, and a nude model. She was smart, sharp, and strikingly beautiful. But she was also vulnerable, easy prey in a city teeming with men who used desperation to manipulate.

At the conclusion of Part 1, Ruth was no longer a teenage girl looking for a way out.

She was standing at the threshold of adulthood and a darker world, a world run by men like Morris Conley.

In part two, Ruth begins working as a nightclub hostess in London's West End,

glamorous on the surface, but underpinned by vice, coercion, and crime.

This is where Ruth's life takes a sharp turn, from survival to submission, from promise to exploitation.

This is part two of Hanged, Into the Night.

Music tonight. It was around that

Ruth Ellis's life took a pivotal turn.

After years of trying to carve out her independence,

she found herself stepping into the shadowy world of London's nightclub scene,

a world teeming with glamour, danger, and secrets.

Her first job as a nightclub hostess was at the prestigious court club nestled in the heart of Mayfair,

an area known for its luxury, power, and hidden vice.

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