Undressing 'Jack The Stripper' - Part 2
The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast
The True Crime Enthusiast
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
He's the London serial killer you may never have even knew existed - from the late 1950's to the mid 1960's, West London was shocked by the deaths of several sex workers, stripped, strangled, and their bodies dumped unceremoniously, like pieces of rubbish. It's commonly considered to be the UK's most prolific series of unsolved serial killings, claiming more victims than his similar namesake the previous century, and in a joint 8 part series between myself, and the award nominated Murder Mile podcast, each week myself and Mike will examine the case in full detail, sifting through misinformation, lies, rumour and perhaps even downright corruption.
The True Crime Enthusiast and Murder Mile have brought you so far the accounts of four dead women – Elizabeth Figg, Gwyneth Rees, Hannah Tailford and Irene Lockwood, found dead around the river Thames over a four year period from 1959 to 1963 – with police considering:
Was there another Ripper on the loose?
Police were soon to believe that there was – with the deaths of another four women, whose tales we shall account in Part 2 and B.
Join myself on The True Crime Enthusiast for parts 1 to 4, and Mike over on Murder Mile for parts A to D, as we continue Undressing - 'Jack The Stripper'
The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, including descriptions of a sexual nature, that some listeners may find disturbing or distressing, so discretion is advised whilst listening in.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about. |
| 0:08.2 | Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com. |
| 0:13.5 | Music The |
| 0:23.6 | The The |
| 0:40.3 | The Hello all and the very warmest of welcomes to another instalment of the True Crime Enthusiasm podcast, your regular trawl into those tales of true crime from the UK, Ireland, worldwide even, that are off the beaten track, that aren't done to death by umpteen other shows and that are curated by myself with the best intentions of bringing to you |
| 1:28.9 | the exact type of content i'd enjoy listening to myself i find the unfamiliar and obscure tales |
| 1:35.5 | much more interesting than another go around on the west or suck cliff or some Netflix popular |
| 1:41.4 | bollocks or an iTV drama and all that, you know. |
| 1:45.2 | The eye bringing you these is myself, Paul, |
| 1:47.5 | create a host and true crime enthusiast of the show's title. |
| 1:50.5 | My beloved true crime enthusiast, Pee, is not here at this time around, |
| 1:55.0 | but only because he's fast asleep on my spare bed, |
| 1:58.1 | and me and Peeks are completed by yourselves. The wonderful enthusiasts |
| 2:03.3 | that make the show go around as long as it's been going for now. It is as fabulous as ever having |
| 2:09.0 | you joining me and Peaks today, which I thank you so kindly for on behalf of the both of us. |
| 2:13.6 | And I do hope that as you've joined us, then it's for an episode that finds you and yours |
| 2:18.3 | all good, all safe and all well. In Part 1 and A of Undressing Jack the Stripper then, |
| 2:28.6 | Mike and I have brought you the accounts of the deaths of four women over a four-year period |
| 2:33.4 | spanning from 1959 to 1963, |
| 2:37.6 | all of whom were sex workers, all of a similar type, and all of whom were found around the |
| 2:43.0 | Thameside area of West London. The latter two of these, Hannah Tailford and Irene Lockwood, |
| 2:50.3 | were fished out of the River Thames itself, |
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