Jack the Ripper, pt. 1

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

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

CW: murder, physcial and sexual violence against women, sex work, detailed descriptions of bodily mutilation.

In 1888, a string of brutal murders shocked the residents of London. Just as shocking, the police were unable to find the killer, nicknamed Jack the Ripper.

For the 100th epiosde of the Morbid Curiosity Podcast, we present a 3-part episode on Jack the Ripper. In this, part 1, we go over the details of the murders. In part 2, which is for Patrons of the MCP only, we'll discuss the suspects and the thoeries about who the Ripper was. In Part 3, we'll discuss the women who died, and how they might have been connected.

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0:00.0	This episode contains discussions of sex work, alcoholism, physical and sexual violence against women, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:35.0	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity,
0:40.1	and it has gripped millions of people throughout the ages. I am one of those people. My name is
0:46.7	Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity Podcast. For the 100th episode of the Morbid Curiosity podcast, we present a three-part episode on Jack
1:01.4	the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders. Part one will be all about the murders. Part two will be about
1:07.8	attempts to solve the case, and part three will be about the women that were killed,
1:12.3	and the possible connections between them that could answer why they were targeted.
1:17.3	Part 2 will be for patrons only, so if you want all three parts, you can become a patron at the lowest tier,
1:24.2	$2 a month, which grants you double the content per month, plus ad-free episodes and other
1:30.0	rewards at higher tiers. You can become a patron at Bitley-Morbid Patron. That's b-it.l-y-slash morbid
1:38.7	patron. I don't proclaim to be an expert in this case. That title belongs to the researchers known as
1:46.3	Ripperologists, whose work I read for this episode. As much of the actual evidence for the
1:52.2	Whitechapel murders has been lost over the years, controversies exist surrounding the details.
1:58.3	I'll do my best to summarize the case, sticking to the version of events
2:02.5	that's most supported by the evidence and its historical context. Also, please keep in mind
2:08.9	while listening to this episode that the women killed by Jack the Ripper weren't just victims.
2:14.7	They were people with families, feelings, and histories of their own. We'll dive
2:19.8	deeper into those histories in part three of this episode.
2:51.2	We'll dive deeper into those histories in part three of this episode. In order to understand the murders in context, it's important to know a little bit about the area where the murders occurred, who lived there and what daily life was like for them.
2:57.2	In the years leading up to the murders, political upheaval and unusually cold weather had made things difficult for Londoners. In both 1886 and 1887, riots had broken out between
3:05.4	the police and the unemployed. Resurrectionists were stealing human corpses
3:10.3	from fresh graves to sell to medical schools and teaching hospitals for anatomical study. No corpse was safe
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