S1 E7: Public Woman 97
Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Swedish farmer’s daughter Elizabeth fell pregnant out of wedlock. The authorities considered her no better than a prostitute and subjected her to myriad physical and emotional humiliations. After she lost the baby, Elizabeth fled Sweden - embarking on a life of deceit that would end in her vicious murder on the streets of Whitechapel.
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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. |
| 0:46.6 | It's a warm September evening. |
| 0:49.7 | The sky has darkened and a moon has risen over the flat, oily river. |
| 0:55.4 | Hundreds of day trippers and pleasure seekers |
| 0:57.8 | are aboard the Princess Alice as she steams through London. |
| 1:02.0 | Music, singing, and the excited shouts of children |
| 1:05.1 | give the so-called moonlight crews a holiday feel. |
| 1:09.6 | No one notices that the craft is moving directly |
| 1:13.1 | into the course of a great iron-hold freighter. |
| 1:17.0 | The Princess Alice plows on. |
| 1:19.5 | Her paddle wheels biting into the rank, |
| 1:21.8 | sewage-proof waters at the Thames. |
| 1:25.6 | What unfolds over the next few terrible minutes |
| 1:29.3 | will be a tragedy for the city, but an opportunity for a Lisbeth stride. |
| 1:35.4 | It may be the first time she has benefited |
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