Welcome to SoHo Strangler Week by Murdwell. To accompany the series, here's a few

extra details from the police files and the court records, to age your enjoyment and

maybe even help you grant the case. This episode is about two specific articles,

as mentioned in the series The SoHo Strangler, about how the press had really tried to ramp

up the tension and turn The SoHo Strangler into something as near to being the SoHo, near

to being Jack the Ripper as possible. So the first article I mentioned in there was from

every week. It was syndicated around the world. This was one of those articles where no

one had changed a single word. It was printed, reprinted, all around the world, different

articles, even the same typeface, even the same graphics in there. It's very much meant

to be like Jack the Ripper. It was just after the murder of Dutch layer and you see what

is meant to be Dutch layer lying on her bed. She's wearing a negligence, she's clearly

been attacked. They haven't shown her full assault, so her head hasn't been caved

in by one kilo flat iron. But you can see what is meant to be The SoHo Strangler, a kind

of a slightly deformed man in darkness creeping out of a window, which he couldn't have done

because she lived on the second floor. So this was reprinted on 13th September 1936. It

was written by Milton Bronner, headline The SoHo Strangler, who baffles Scotland Yard.

Like Jack the Ripper, this shadowy slayer of the girls of SoHo's dim byways strikes

with an insane but deadly cunning, leaving no clues for the famous man-catchers to follow.

The women of dubious pasts, uncertain present and 30 futures, go to their squatted rooms

in fear and trembling these days and nights. As they put the key in the latch, their hands

tremble. They quickly reach for the switch which will turn on the light. A curtain moving

in the wind makes them jump. With shaken fingers, they pull open a cupboard door to see who

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