Jill the Ripper
True Weird Stuff
Now! Media
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Today's True Weird Stuff - Jill the Ripper
In 1888, the people of the Whitechapel district of London were terrorized by someone on a ruthless killing spree. Over 100 suspects were named, including a woman named Mary Pearcey. In 1890, Mary was convicted of brutally murdering her lover's partner and child, and Mary was sentenced to death. The brutal nature of the killings would lead to a theory decades later that claimed Mary Pearcey was the was the infamous Jack the Ripper.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, true weirdos. We just wanted to take a minute and thank you so much for your support. |
| 0:05.0 | True Weird Stuff has won the best history podcast in the Women in Podcasting Awards and we've also won a Signal Award in the paranormal category. |
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| 0:19.6 | Stick around if you want after the episode for a little bonus content and conversation. |
| 0:25.7 | It was a brutal place to live in the best of times, and these weren't the best of times. |
| 0:31.9 | It was a place where two out of every ten children died before their fifth birthday. |
| 0:37.8 | Work was hard to come by. |
| 0:39.4 | Clean lodgings and fresh food were daydreams. |
| 0:43.3 | The narrow winding streets were lined with gutters, |
| 0:46.5 | overflowing with human sewage and garbage. |
| 0:50.0 | Cattle and sheep jostled with people for a footing in the mud, an excrement. |
| 0:55.0 | A myasma of soot and filth clung to every surface. |
| 1:00.0 | The very air itself was rank and slimy, a near constant dank fog barely penetrated by the flickering light of gas lanterns. |
| 1:10.0 | When the first body was found, it was a scandal, but not a surprise. |
| 1:15.5 | The Whitechapel area of East London was rife with crime. |
| 1:19.7 | Prostitutes shared the foul streets with brawlers and drunks, |
| 1:23.9 | with thieves and killers. |
| 1:26.0 | It was a place where human life was cheap, |
| 1:29.0 | which made it an almost perfect hunting ground. |
| 1:33.0 | Beginning in August 1888, the hunted were women. |
| 1:37.9 | Women who were savagely murdered, their bodies defiled and discarded. |
| 1:42.6 | First one, then the next and the next, 11 horrific deaths. |
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