Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast for Netflix original true crime stories.

I'm Rebecca Lervoy, your host. Each episode we take a close-up look at a true crime narrative documentary or series and I talked to the people who made them

diving deep into the backstories and getting answers to questions raised by what we just watched

Today we're discussing the Ripper and I interview the

docu series co-directors Jesse Vial and Eleanor Wood. A note to listeners

this episode contains spoilers so make sure to watch the entire series The Ripper and

then listen on to this podcast. It was the late 1970s a serial killer known as the

Yorkshire Ripper cast a dark shadow over the lives of women across England.

Over a span of five years, 13 women were killed and the police seemed incapable of catching the murderer.

No one felt safe and every man was a suspect.

Any woman was at risk. This murder changed everything.

The anger was now boiling pot.

Five years is too long.

If they haven't caught him yet, I don't do the other will.

He had successfully put ined an entire police force.

The police were actually excluding evidence.

You cannot conceive of what it was like.

I thought they will never catch him.

Never, ever. He controlled us all.

She was the last person in the world that you suspected.

Jesse Vile, welcome to you can't make this up.

Thanks for having me it's really cool to be here.

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