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Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

S1 E2: Welcome to Whitechapel

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

London on August 6th, 1888 is one of the greatest cities on Earth, but the Whitechapel neighborhood is a byword for poverty, violence, and vice. Jack the Ripper will slaughter his victims here.

Join Hallie Rubenhold on a tour of this slum - with its busy markets, rowdy pubs, filthy lodging houses, and crowded police cells - and meet the real women who will soon cross paths with 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?

0:17.1

From truth media and Sony music entertainment, a dark cloud hanging over the city of Dixon

0:21.9

is the Rita Cronwell in Bezileman scandal.

0:24.8

A story about a hardworking woman who would do anything and pursue it of her passion.

0:29.8

Cronwell was charged with the largest municipal fraud in US history.

0:33.3

Why'd you do it Rita?

0:35.0

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

0:45.2

A woman lies motionless.

0:47.2

A passerby mistakes are for a vagrant.

0:51.1

People often curl up in the hallways of this building at night.

0:54.7

He ignores her.

0:57.0

Over two hours past before anyone realises that the sleeping figure is in fact dead, and

1:04.8

not dead from illness or mishap, she's been stabbed multiple times.

1:10.9

Her clothing has also been pushed up, exposing the lower half of her body.

1:16.7

Local residents claim they saw and heard nothing of her murder in the night, but perhaps

1:22.2

they simply heard nothing out of the ordinary.

1:25.8

After all, the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, this patch of London's east end, has a reputation

1:31.7

as a sink of misery and vice, a place feared and reviled by many richer Londoners, a

1:39.1

byword for all that is wrong with modern society.

1:43.7

It is no stranger to violence and murder, and soon it will become synonymous with the

1:50.1

deeds of a serial killer.

1:57.9

I'm Halle Ribbonhold, you're listening to Bad Women, the Ripper Retold, a series about

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