S1 E3: Polly Walks Out

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Polly Nichols had a husband, a young family and lived in a brand new home built by a philanthropic millionaire. Then she walked out on it all. Why?

Surviving without a husband was almost impossible for a lone women, so Polly began a slow spiral into desperate poverty that would eventually put her in the path of her killer, 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?
0:34.8	Listen to Cricut City, Dixon, Illinois, wherever you get your podcast.
0:53.2	Someone is watching Polly Nichols.
0:56.2	He's skilled at keeping his distance and it remaining just out of sight.
1:01.7	He follows her down darkening streets.
1:04.7	He notes which shops or pumps she enters.
1:07.8	He knows what works she does and when she leaves to return to her lodgings, he knows where
1:13.0	she lives and most importantly, he knows who she's been living with.
1:19.2	He inquires about her in the neighborhood, but he does so subtly in a way that won't
1:24.6	raise any alarm that won't give away his presence.
1:39.4	I'm Halle Ribbonholt.
1:41.4	You're listening to Bad Women, the river retold, a series about the real lives of the women
1:47.9	killed by Jack the River and how we got their stories so wrong.
1:54.0	One side money plenty and friends toothed by the skull, then fortune smelt upon me and no
2:09.6	one pass my door, then poor and lonely and not with her for granted.
2:23.1	London's Fleet Street and its network and narrow tributaries was a hive of activity.
2:46.4	The so-called Street of Ink was home to authors, printers, newspapermen and booksellers.
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