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🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Annie Chapman’s murder sparked fears that a crazed killer was on the loose in London, prompting the burgeoning newspaper industry to flood Whitechapel with reporters. Those journalists wrote the first draft of Jack the Ripper’s history, and much of it survives in the story we tell today. But can we really believe those newspaper reports?
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0:00.0 | A 34-year-old man was found bleeding to death on the street. |
0:13.0 | This man was Anthony Virgilio, Tony, to his friends. |
0:16.6 | Calvin Jones would spend 30 years in prison for Tony's murder. |
0:20.4 | And for 30 years, Calvin Jones would call my house and speak to my father. |
0:25.1 | What did my dad have to say to a convicted murderer? |
0:28.4 | When my dad died, he left behind a question. |
0:31.4 | Was he responsible for killing Tony Virgilio from Sonoro and Tenorfoot TV, the estate? |
0:37.2 | Listen to the estate wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:42.2 | No one living with an earshot of the enclosed yard at 29 Hanbury Street |
0:47.4 | reports hearing anything particularly untoward in the night. |
0:51.4 | No scuffle, no cries, no screams. |
0:56.0 | And neighbor thinks he hears someone say, no. |
0:59.6 | But when residents awake on Saturday, September 8th, |
1:03.1 | they catch sight of Annie Chapman's body. |
1:07.4 | A local tradesman goes to fetch a canvas sheet to throw over Annie and her horrific wounds. |
1:13.6 | When he returns, the police have arrived and a crowd has gathered. |
1:17.7 | Is that women who sells a crochet work at the market? |
1:20.4 | I can't. |
1:21.4 | I don't want anyone else saying it was a choice. |
1:23.1 | The information was quite enough. |
1:25.0 | Just be careful. |
1:26.3 | Thank you very much. |
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