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Music Hi, Kate.

Hey, Paul. How's it going?

It is going good. I've been thinking about this London case.

Oh, my goodness. Okay. So I'm going to now tell you this case because probably some folks have recognized it.

So this is called the blackout ripper case because we've talked about the blackouts.

Okay. And I don't know if these actually talked about the blackouts. Okay.

And I don't know if these actually happened during a blackout.

Some must have, but that's what this case is called.

So I can do a real quick summary for us.

So we're in 1942 in the middle of the Blitz in London.

Most of the city is gone.

There are still people there.

And we have so far two murder victims. One is a woman named Evelyn. She's 50. She's a pharmacist. And she is found strangled with

no evidence of sexual assault, but we know what that means, in between two air raid shelters outside

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