Hey listeners, Shanade here. Today on the Men's Raya podcast, I'm doing things a bit differently

and bringing you a preview of a new show that examines a perhaps little known but nonetheless

horrific UK-based crime. It's called Bad Women. In a gripping first season, historian

Halle Rubenhold uncovered the true stories of the victims of Jack the Ripper. And now

she's back with a new season exploring the lives of the women murdered by another depraved

killer, the Blackout Ripper. Halle takes listeners back to wartime London, whose buildings have

been devastated by a rain of bombs and where the streets have plunged into darkness. Over

a single week in February 1942, the Blackout Ripper stalked these streets, hunting for his

victims' night after night in bars and clubs. Using new research from police files, court,

transcripts, and exhaustive genealogical studies, Halle reconstructs the lives of the women

the Blackout Ripper brutally attacked and murdered. These were women who were dismissed as mere

good-time girls who were asking for trouble for choosing independent lives in the city

and who were already in peril due to the war. In the preview you're about to hear, Greta

Hayward finds herself walking through the Blackout city with a lewd and menacing airman

who just won't leave her alone and with each step her panic rises. Will she ever reach safety?

Okay, here's the clip. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did and you can hear more from bad

women, the Blackout Ripper, wherever you get your podcasts.

You're alone on a city street. The darkness is total. It envelops you, pressing in.

You stumble on, not knowing where the sidewalk ends and the road begins.

You brush by a darkened building, bump into an unlit street lamp.

Your desperate to reach safety, for somewhere in this neighborhood, looks a killer who strikes

in the hours of darkness. The cruelty and viciousness of his crimes are unspeakable.

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