S1 E15: The Madness of Jacob Levy

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Families of Ripper victims often suppressed the memories of their murdered loved ones - fearing the stigma of being related to supposed "prostitutes". And descendants of men accused of being the infamous killer have also had to endure seeing their ancestors' reputations sullied.

We hear from a living relatives of Annie Chapman... and of Jacob Levy, a Whitechapel butcher whose appalling struggle with mental illness has caused unsympathetic observers to conclude that he was Jack the Ripper.

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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?
0:34.7	Listen to Crooked City, Dixon, Illinois, wherever you get your podcast.
0:39.3	This episode discusses death by suicide.
0:42.4	If you're suffering emotional distress or having suicidal thoughts, support is available.
0:48.3	For example, from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
0:55.5	Following the barbaric murder of Mary Jane Kelly,
0:58.9	the Ripper seems to disappear.
1:01.6	The weeks stretch into months, then years.
1:05.9	When the dead bodies of women are discovered in the locality,
1:09.1	and they are found with dismal regularity,
1:12.5	police surgeons search them for any knife wounds akin to the Ripper's trademark savagery.
1:18.4	Might this cut signify the Ripper's return?
1:21.8	Might that slash?
1:24.0	The medical experts bicker and no consensus is reached.
1:28.4	So what lies behind the halt in the Ripper killings?
1:31.9	Has he fled, even emigrated?
1:34.3	Has he been imprisoned on another charge?
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