NEW SEASON: The Blackout Ripper coming Oct 11

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

London is pitch black. It's wartime and the lights are out to confuse Nazi bombers. But in this darkness a killer as warped and as violent as Jack the Ripper is hunting for women night after night in the bomb-damaged streets.

The women murdered by the so-called Blackout Ripper received little sympathy at the time and have been largely forgotten since. So historian Hallie Rubenhold and criminologist Alice Fiennes have gathered fresh evidence about the rich and complex lives of the women - and revealing what put them in the path of a killer.

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper starts with a double episode drop on Oct 11.

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0:00.0	A 34-year-old man was found bleeding to death on the street.
0:03.6	This man was Anthony Virgilio, Tony, to his friends.
0:07.3	Calvin Jones would spend 30 years in prison for Tony's murder.
0:11.0	And for 30 years, Calvin Jones would call my house and speak to my father.
0:15.7	What did my dad have to say to a convicted murderer?
0:19.2	When my dad died, he left behind a question.
0:22.2	Was he responsible for killing Tony Virgilio from Sonoro and Tenorfoot TV, the estate?
0:28.0	Listen to the estate wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.8	Pushkin.
0:43.3	Greta Haywood has come to London's nightclub district to meet her boyfriend,
0:48.1	but has crossed paths with another man, a trainee fighter pilot.
0:53.1	He's lured, persistent, and menacing.
0:56.7	Are you a naughty girl?
0:58.4	She's found herself alone with him on a side street, in total darkness.
1:04.4	This is Winter 1942 in the middle of the Second World War,
1:09.0	and London is blacked out for fear that any light will attract Hitler's bombers.
1:15.2	The man pushes Greta into a doorway, pressing closely up against her and kissing her.
1:20.7	Come on. You've got to let me make love to you.
1:23.9	He raises her skirt. Greta pretests, but the man's hands knit around her throat.
1:29.6	She tries to break free.
1:32.8	Greta struggles to release the man's grip, but his fingers only tighten around her neck.
1:38.0	You want.
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