S1 E12: The Mystery of Mary Jane Kelly

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mary Jane Kelly's life ended brutally in a small room in Whitechapel - but what journey brought her to East London? She sold sex in her final years - but was she born to a rich family or was she the teenage bride of a coal miner? Had she been tricked into sex slavery abroad, escaped and gone on the run from her criminal traffickers? Was Mary Jane Kelly even her real name?

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0:00.0	A man from her troubled past has come looking for her, stalking the dark and miserable neighborhood
0:22.8	she calls home.
0:25.1	He is asking after her and its dingy pubs, making sinister inquiries among the young women
0:30.6	who work these streets by the docks.
0:34.1	This middle-aged man seems determined to find Mary Jane.
0:39.0	He tells people he is her father, whoever he really is.
0:44.2	His presence means danger for the young woman.
0:49.0	Hiding is familiar to Mary Jane, and she's good at it.
0:53.1	Over acquaintances and companions ask her for her life's story, she offers up misty
0:58.2	half-truths.
1:00.5	Even her friends and lovers don't really know her.
1:03.9	The enigmatic Mary Jane holds her cards close to her chest, and for good reason.
1:11.2	She may be young, but in her twenty-three or so years, she's made some fearsome enemies.
1:18.6	Perhaps the sudden presence of this unwelcome pursuer prompts her to move on.
1:23.1	For Mary Jane soon packs her bags and heads to a new address.
1:28.0	Each move taking her closer and closer to Whitechapel, and closer and closer to her murderer.
1:43.2	I'm Halle Rubenhold, you're listening to Bad Women, the Ripper Retold, a series about
1:50.2	the real lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper, and how we got their stories so
2:26.4	long.
2:27.4	No one seems to know me, but I'm completely broken down.
2:43.4	By the 1880s, a discreet sort of party was becoming fashionable in certain rich London
2:52.9	circles.
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