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Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

S1 E11: Chamber of Horrors

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In October 1888, Jack the Ripper went to ground. Although the murders seemed to ceased, public interest in the killings remained intense. Entrepreneurs exploited this prurience for profit - even opening blood-drenched waxworks exhibits in Whitechapel. This melding of fact and fiction, murder and mammon persists to this day.

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0:00.0

A 34-year-old man was found bleeding to death on the street.

0:13.0

This man was Anthony Virgilio, Tony, to his friends.

0:16.6

Calvin Jones would spend 30 years in prison for Tony's murder.

0:20.4

And for 30 years, Calvin Jones would call my house and speak to my father.

0:25.1

What did my dad have to say to a convicted murderer?

0:28.4

When my dad died, he left behind a question.

0:31.4

Was he responsible for killing Tony Virgilio from Sonoro and Tenorfoot TV, the estate?

0:37.2

Listen to the estate wherever you get your podcasts.

0:41.0

At the Lyceum Theatre, in London's fashionable West End, the lamp dim and a hush falls over the audience.

0:51.6

These spectators have come to see Richard Mansfield's celebrated performance

0:56.5

in the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

1:00.7

I have destroyed the balance of my soul.

1:03.8

The evil power within me has mastered it.

1:08.2

Mansfield's stars as Henry Jekyll, a respectable doctor,

1:12.8

was secretly developed a potion that allows him to transform into the malevolent and murderous Edward Hyde.

1:20.6

It is Hyde now that controls Jekyll, not Jekyll Hyde.

1:27.2

His metamorphosis from the upright Dr. Jekyll into the stooped Mr. Hyde is astonishing.

1:35.9

He contorts his body and facial expressions.

1:39.6

He changes his voice and his gate too.

1:43.1

Mr. Mansfield contrives the marvelous transformation with wonderful adroitness.

1:47.8

The change is amazing in its completeness and rapidity.

1:51.6

This is a masterful piece of deception.

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