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Whitechapel, East London, home to one of England's most renowned, brutal and evasive serial

killers of all time, Jack the Ripper. We explore these murders from the brutal beginnings

to the mysterious end. This is dark histories where the facts are

worse than fiction. Hello and welcome to season 1 episode 1 of Dark Histories.

This is actually a re-recording of the earlier episodes because my equipment's come

along quite a long way and I look back at these episodes and I used to think you know I

I can record them at much higher quality now so I'm going to work through so if you're going back to these and listening chronologically through the back catalogue

You might notice like a little drop-off in quality at at some point that's just because I haven't

caught up because I'm just recording them as and when I can and replacing them.

So yeah, this is something I wrote quite a while back now, but I think the back catalog deserves a better

microphone, so I'm going to go back for them. So let's get on with it. This is a story that doesn't

really need an introduction. The Whitechapel murders.

In 1888, England was ruled by Queen Victoria. The British Empire was in full swing and London was the largest

capital city in the world. East London however did not reflect this period supposed

prosperity. It was a densely populated area where the residents lived in poverty amongst the highest crime rates and with little future prospects.

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