Jack the Ripper: Evidence and Suspects

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This episode is part 2 of a 3-part series, originally published on May 18th 2023.

"In this episode, we discuss the evidence from the Jack the Ripper case, including, letters, photos, and personal accounts from the Metropolitan and City of London police. We also dive into the many suspects that have been proposed over the years, which range from escaped asylum inmates to royalty."

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0:00.0	This episode was previously only available to patrons of the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
0:06.0	We are making it available to everyone, so enjoy this episode, and please consider becoming a patron.
0:12.5	The lowest tier is only $2 a month. Thank you.
0:17.4	This episode contains discussions of physical and sexual violence against women, murder, and detailed descriptions of bodily mutilation.
0:26.7	If these aren't topics you want to hear about, this may be a good episode to skip. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:49.3	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped millions of
0:56.4	people throughout the ages. I am one of those people. My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid
1:03.8	Curiosity Podcast. This is part two of the 100th episode of the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
1:14.2	If you haven't listened to Part 1, I recommend you go back and do that, as part 2 is mostly an analysis of the information from part 1.
1:23.0	Part 3 will go into even more detail about the victims.
1:27.1	This episode will be a summary of the evidence and the suspects.
1:31.1	I'm no expert, and there is way more information than I can sort through with the time and effort
1:36.2	I'm limited to. I will recommend several books throughout the episode that have a good
1:41.1	grasp of the information if you want to know more.
1:55.3	Music that have a good grasp of the information if you want to know more. In part one of this episode, I discussed the East End and the Whitechapel murders, five of which were attributed
2:02.8	to one killer, nicknamed Jack the Ripper. I mentioned that it was hard to police the area
2:08.6	due to the dark, narrow streets, the densely packed population, and the lack of police constables.
2:15.4	The people of the East End also didn't want to work with the police
2:18.9	due to their reputation as being inept and corrupt. I also mentioned that after the first five
2:25.4	Whitechapel murders, the police were chasing both real leads and hundreds of hoaxes. Over the years,
2:32.6	numerous suspects have been put forward, including doctors,
2:36.5	butchers, and even members of the royal family. However, the evidence against these suspects
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