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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.

Where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

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Jack the Ripper's 1888 murders cause a near-historia not just in London, where they happened, but all over the world.

There were false sightings of him in Europe and the United States and even down in South America. But while many were terrified of him, some blamed the London police.

The New York Chief of Detectives Thomas Burns criticized the London police for failing to capture Jack the Ripper, saying that if he had been in New York, he would have been in the clink in 24 hours.

Well, not long after, Burns received a letter that was purportedly from Jack himself who said that New York was his next target.

In 1891, a woman named Carrie Brown, who was a prostitute, nicknamed Old Shakespeare, for her frequent quoting of the barred, was found brutally murdered in a CD hotel along the waterfront in Manhattan.

This scene recalled for the press and police alike Jack the Ripper's victims in London. Panic New Yorkers worked feverishly to halt the maniacs spree.

A frenzy broke out, not too dissimilar from what happened on the West Coast of the United States after the Pearl Harbor bombings that led to the internment of Japanese Americans.

The NYPD finally arrested Amir Ben Ali, an Algerian immigrant who was staying in a nearby hotel room.

But the newspapers quickly criticized Burns for moving too quickly, thinking that they were just trying to pin blame on him and save face.

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