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🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Jack the Ripper's victims were prostitutes murdered while selling sex on the streets of Whitechapel - that's what historian Hallie Rubenhold thought when she started researching the crimes. She was wrong.
As she looked into the case, she discovered much of the familiar Ripper story is totally false. But by challenging that myth and trying to tell the true stories of the murdered women, Hallie attracted a storm of criticism.
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0:00.0 | If you had a chance to pursue your passion at someone else's expense, then would you do it? |
0:16.9 | From Truth Media and Sony Music Entertainment, a dark cloud hanging over the city of Dixon |
0:21.7 | is the Rita Cronwell in Bezileman scandal. |
0:24.6 | A story about a hardworking woman who would do anything and pursue it of her passion. |
0:29.5 | Cronwell was charged with the largest municipal fraud in US history. |
0:33.0 | Why'd you do it, Rita? |
0:34.7 | Listen to Cricut City, Dixon, Illinois, wherever you get your podcast. |
0:47.5 | It's the coldest of cold cases. |
0:52.3 | A murder of the most brutal kind was committed in the neighborhood of Whitechapel in the early |
0:57.6 | hours. |
0:58.6 | But by whom and with what motive is a present, a complete mystery? |
1:04.4 | In the fall of 1888, woman after woman after woman was murdered in the dark backstreet |
1:11.4 | of Pavardistric in East London. |
1:14.2 | This poor creature was taken into the yard and butchered, unnearly fainted away at what |
1:20.0 | I saw. |
1:21.2 | The killer struck and then disappeared, leaving the police baffled. |
1:26.4 | All that was certain was the awful severity of the wounds he inflicted on the women. |
1:33.2 | The poor woman's throat was cut and the inside of her body was lying beside her. |
1:38.2 | She was quite ripped open. |
1:42.4 | The murders were so violent that the killer earned a nickname known the world over. |
1:49.0 | I'm down on halls and I shan't quit ripping them. |
1:54.1 | And today, his name ranks among the cruelest and most notorious of serial killers, Jack |
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