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Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

The Blackout Ripper PT 1

Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

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True Crime

4.826K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this first part of a two-parter, Kate and Paul head across the pond to 1942 London where blackouts set the stage for a series of grisly murders. 

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:09.4

I'm Kate Winkler-Dawson. I'm a journalist who's spent the last 25 years writing about true crime.

0:16.1

And I'm Paul Holes, a retired cold case investigator whose work some of America's most complicated cases

0:21.4

and solve them.

0:22.7

Each week, I present Paul with one of history's most compelling true crimes.

0:27.6

And I weigh in using modern forensic techniques to bring new insights to old mysteries.

0:32.6

Together, using our individual expertise, we're examining historical true crime cases through a 21st century lens.

0:40.9

Some are solved and some are cold, very cold. This is buried bones.

0:46.1

Music Hey, Kate, how are you?

1:09.3

I'm well, Paul.

1:10.2

How about you?

1:10.8

Any help updates? We talk about that. We both feel old sometimes,

1:15.0

so we talk about, we've talked about your hip. We've talked about my shoulder and my ankle and all kinds of stuff.

1:21.2

What about you? Anything new?

1:22.7

Yeah, you know, on the medical side, I went in for just the routine mole check, you know, with the dermatologist.

1:30.2

And, you know, I was horrible throughout the course of my life, never wore sunscreen.

1:36.5

I lifeguarded, you know, I'd be out in the yard all day in, you know, Central Valley, California,

1:41.8

just being cooked by the sun without sunscreen and just

1:44.8

constantly getting burned. And I know something's probably going to pop up at some point. So I

1:49.5

did go in and they found a spot on the back of my right hand, you know, and they cut it out. And it turns

1:56.5

out it's completely benign. Fortunately, they just, you know, the pathology lab came back and said it's

2:02.0

some sort of carotosis, you know, but it's just something that, you know, people need to pay

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