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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

JACK THE RIPPER (PT 2 OF 3) SUSPECTS NAMED

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0

And the And then Welcome to Jack the Ripper, Part 2, Finding the Killer at 1,001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries.

0:40.0

Hi everybody, welcome back.

0:42.0

I'd like to thank many of you for the great reviews you've been sending us on Apple iTunes

0:45.9

Podcast app and Stitcher and let you know we'll be sharing them at the end of this episode.

0:51.4

The hunt for the real Jack the Ripper has been one of the most interesting research efforts we have ever been involved in.

0:57.0

And as most of you know, we've been involved in quite a few.

1:01.0

There continues to be research out there that uncovers new information and there's

1:05.2

no shortage of documentaries and books claiming to know the true identity of Jack the Ripper.

1:11.7

It's rather scary to know just how many serious nut cases and

1:15.0

killers were on hand in London in 1888, but I'm sure they've got the situation

1:20.4

well in hand today.

1:23.0

Since that time, the identity of the Whitechapel killer or killers has been hotly debated.

1:29.0

An entire genre of ripperology has been created.

1:32.0

And over 100 Jack the Ripper suspects have been

1:35.0

named with new ones popping up every few years or so as new theories are brought

1:40.0

forward. Though many theories have been advanced, experts find none widely persuasive, and some

1:47.2

can hardly be taken seriously at all.

1:50.8

You can look at these experts two ways, one, that any new theory is going to get looked at very closely, and two, that most of them have their own theories.

1:59.0

And that's good.

2:00.0

Metropolitan Police Service files show that their investigation into the serial killings encompassed 11 separate murders between 1888 and 1891, known in the police docket as the White Chappel murders.

2:16.1

Five of these, the murders of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride,

2:21.3

Catherine Eddows, and Mary Jane Kelly, are generally agreed to be the work of a single

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