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Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

S1 E10: In a Dark, Dark Corner

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Kate Eddowes was murdered in a dark London square in the dead of the night. What had she been doing there? It seems improbable that she was selling sex... and the more likely explanation totally upends the idea that Jack the Ripper posed as a "John" to launch brutal his attacks.

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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 did you do it Rita?

0:34.8

Listen to Cricut City, Dixon, Illinois, wherever you get your podcast.

0:43.6

A little girl raises up the steps to number seven through all street.

0:48.8

She bangs on the front door and calls out to her neighbour, a policeman has sent her.

0:55.8

He wants to see Eliza Edo's down in the street, but Eliza is too ill to get up.

1:02.0

She moans, rolls over in her bed and sends the child away.

1:06.8

Leave me alone.

1:09.2

Moments later the girl returns.

1:11.6

This time the police officer has given her a grim message to convey.

1:16.0

Eliza's sister Kate has been found dead and she must identify the body or what remains

1:23.3

of it.

1:25.6

Kate Edo's killing is perhaps the most gruesome of the Whitechapel murders yet.

1:31.6

It's also helped me to form a new theory about what really connects the Ripper victims,

1:37.1

a theory that demolishes the myth that he was some kind of superhuman master criminal.

1:49.2

I'm Halle Ribbonhold.

1:51.3

You're listening to Bad Women, the Ripper Retold.

1:55.4

A series about the real lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

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