S1 E5: Dark Annie and the Demon Drink

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Annie Chapman and her husband were making good on their ambitions to live a comfortable, respectable life. Only... Annie drank. Under pressure from her husband’s employer, Annie was sent away - and she fell deeper and deeper into the bottle. This addiction - and society's disgust with women who drank - also pushed Annie closer and closer to her killer.

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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 Crooked City, Dixon, Illinois, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:41.1	This episode discusses death by suicide.
0:44.0	If you're suffering emotional distress or having suicidal thoughts, support is available,
0:49.4	for example from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
1:03.6	Annie Chapman watches her husband John get ready for work.
1:07.4	Watches him don the tall hat and shining boots he wears to drive his master's grand carriage.
1:12.7	He has a cold and the weather is miserable.
1:16.7	He is reluctant to leave the little cottage he shares with Annie and their two children.
1:21.7	He takes a nip of hot whiskey to fortify himself and then kisses Annie goodbye.
1:28.7	That kiss is Annie Chapman's undoing.
1:32.2	It sets in motion a sequence of events that ends in her vicious murder on the streets of Whitechapel.
1:42.1	I'm Halle Rubenhold.
1:44.1	You're listening to Bad Women, the Ripper Retold.
1:48.2	A series about the real lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper and how we got their
1:53.7	stories so wrong.
1:57.0	One side money plenty and friends tiffed by the skull, then fortune smelt upon me and
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