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Jack The Ripper Unmasked · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: Cults!
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  Speaker 2: Serial- Why is she cults?
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  Speaker 1: Cults!
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  Speaker 2: What was that? Crime! Conspiracy! Cults! Serial killers! And murder!
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  Speaker 2: All things that I love to consume, and I know
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  Speaker 2: you do too, you sick-minded, beautiful, intellectual-headed freak. And today,
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  Speaker 2: we are doing just that, yes. Jay makes smoke come
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  Speaker 2: out of my mouth. We are going to be talking
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  Speaker 2: about one of the most infamous, uncaught serial killers of
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  Speaker 2: all time. I don't know why I'm dipping into Captain
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  Speaker 2: Jack Sparrow when I look like Sherlock Holmes. I need to, okay,
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  Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes. I need to get in it. Also, my
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  Speaker 2: hat works both ways, which is crazy. So people can't
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  Speaker 2: talk behind my back without me knowing, you know? You know,
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  Speaker 2: life hack. Where was I? We're talking about Jack the
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  Speaker 2: Ripper and unraveling the mystery.
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  Speaker 3: So let's hop into our carriages, slap our horse on
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  Speaker 3: the ass, go mock. 05 down the alleyway, yell, whoa, whoa, horsey,
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  Speaker 3: and deep dive through the carriage, over the horse, into
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  Speaker 3: the serial killer together.
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  Speaker 2: As a commoner in Victoria, London, you wake up every
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  Speaker 2: morning in a cramped and dirty room that you share
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  Speaker 2: with several other people. You can barely breathe in the
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  Speaker 2: stale and smoky air, and you cough from the dust
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  Speaker 2: and soot that cover everything. You dress in your ragged
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  Speaker 2: and worn clothes and head out to the noisy, chaotic streets.
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  Speaker 2: You dodge the carts and carriages that rattled on the
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  Speaker 2: cobblestones and the horses that leave their droppings behind. You
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  Speaker 2: smell the stench of rotting garbage, sewage, and animal carcasses
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  Speaker 2: that pile up on the sidewalks and gutters. You hear
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  Speaker 2: the cries of beggars, hawkers, and children, and the occasional
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  Speaker 2: church bells that tolls in the distance. You walk for
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  Speaker 2: miles to reach your workplace, where you will spend the
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  Speaker 2: next 12 hours or more toiling in harsh and dangerous
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  Speaker 2: conditions for pittance. You have no hope in escaping this
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  Speaker 2: miserable and hopeless life. And after a grueling day at work,
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  Speaker 2: you have little energy or more left to enjoy yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes you crave the relief of the misery and
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  Speaker 2: monotony of your life. You might head to the pub,
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  Speaker 2: where you could drink a pint of ale, play a
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  Speaker 2: game of cards, or listen to a song or a story.
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  Speaker 2: You might also go to the music hall, where you
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  Speaker 2: could watch a variety of acts, from singers to dancers
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  Speaker 2: to comedians and magicians. You might even splurge on a
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  Speaker 2: ticket to a cheap theater, where you can see the melodrama,
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  Speaker 2: a pantomime, or a burlesque show. The city's brothels may
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  Speaker 2: offer you relief with being a line of work that
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  Speaker 2: employed anywhere from 8,000 to 80,000 women. And if you
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  Speaker 2: thought life during the day was miserable, when the sun
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  Speaker 2: had set, an entirely new host of miseries would make
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  Speaker 2: themselves known. As night falls, the city changes. A thick
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  Speaker 2: fog descends, enveloping the streets in an eerie and gloomy atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: You could barely see a few feet ahead of Dark
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  Speaker 2: and occluded, the shadowed corners of London alleyways provided ample
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  Speaker 2: hiding opportunity for cities in many, many dangers. And with
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  Speaker 2: many people poor and desperate at this time, it was
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  Speaker 2: hard to survive at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder,
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  Speaker 2: leading many to turn to crime just to get by.
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  Speaker 2: Nowhere was this more prevalent than London's East End, an
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  Speaker 2: overcrowded and incredibly poor area where crime and poverty were
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  Speaker 2: all too common. And many people resorted to stealing from shops, markets, houses,
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  Speaker 2: or even from other people on the streets. Pickpockets, shoplifters, burglars,
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  Speaker 2: and highwaymen were all types of thieves who preyed on
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  Speaker 2: the unsuspecting or the wealthy. Some thieves worked alone, while
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  Speaker 2: others were part of organized gains or networks. And theft
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  Speaker 2: was often driven by poverty, addiction, and hunger. And violence
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  Speaker 2: was frequent as well. When encounters spawned from desperation would
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  Speaker 2: turn bloody, as a commoner with close to nothing tries
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  Speaker 2: to cheat and steal from their neighbor, who has just
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  Speaker 2: as little, if not less. And while some violence stemmed
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  Speaker 2: from necessity, There were also those criminals hiding in the dense,
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  Speaker 2: thick fog with much more sinister motivations. And right as
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  Speaker 2: it seemed that life was at its worst, would begin
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  Speaker 2: to turn up dead with organs missing, only to be
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  Speaker 2: found in dark, filthy alleyways where the smell of their
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  Speaker 2: bodies would mix with rotting garbage and horse droppings. And
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  Speaker 2: this would be the work of the infamous Jack the Ripper.
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  Speaker 2: I'll stop with the British accent. I hope if you're
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  Speaker 2: still here, that's incredible. I know that whole intro was me.
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  Speaker 2: It started out really bad, I think, really bad. And
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  Speaker 2: then I think it got a little bit better. My British,
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  Speaker 2: my lovely Londoners and other British people, let me know
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  Speaker 2: how terrible my accent was. You can hurt my feelings.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine. Also, I felt like I'm just going to
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  Speaker 2: stay in this outfit because I think this hat is
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  Speaker 2: kind of fire and this bow tie is as well.
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  Speaker 2: I can't actually read out of these glasses though, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna x-nay those. Maybe I'll just use this, maybe. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: let's get in to Jack the Ripper. So first, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna start with the first victim that we know of,
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  Speaker 2: which is Mary Ann Nichols, also known as Polly Nichols.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, she was the first of the
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  Speaker 2: canonical five of Jack the Ripper. She was born in
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  Speaker 2: 1845 in London and married a printer's machinist named William
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  Speaker 2: Nichols in 1864. They would have five children, but then
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  Speaker 2: they would eventually separate due to marital issues in 1880.
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  Speaker 2: And after their separation, Mary Ann lived a very hard
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  Speaker 2: and unstable life, moving between workhouses, public lodgings, her father's house, and,
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  Speaker 2: at the homes of various lovers, as you do. She
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  Speaker 2: also struggled with alcoholism, which made her resort to working
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  Speaker 2: in to earn money. So on the night of August 31st, 1888,
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  Speaker 2: Mary Ann Nichols would leave her lodging house without enough
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  Speaker 2: money for a bed or to pay for her stay.
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  Speaker 2: She said she would soon get the money by showing
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  Speaker 2: off her new bonnet. And if you don't know what
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  Speaker 2: a bonnet is, this is what a bonnet is. And
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  Speaker 2: she would last be seen alive by her roommate at
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  Speaker 2: around 2 30 a.m. walking along Whitechapel Road. Mary Ann
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  Speaker 2: Nichols probably did not see or hear her killer approaching,
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  Speaker 2: as he would attack her from behind and her throat
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  Speaker 2: very quickly. She may have felt some sudden pain before
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  Speaker 2: losing consciousness and dying. And about an hour later, her
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  Speaker 2: body would be found on Buck's Row, which was a
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  Speaker 2: dark and deserted street, and she would be discovered by
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  Speaker 2: a gentleman named Charles Allen Lickman. Her throat would be
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  Speaker 2: like we said before, but also her abdomen would be
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  Speaker 2: completely open. And the discovery of this murder obviously struck
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  Speaker 2: fear into the hearts and souls of the London's East Side,
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  Speaker 2: though not as unfortunate as Marianne Nichols. But the whole
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  Speaker 2: of London would be absolutely shaken by this murder, though
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  Speaker 2: this would hardly be the end of Jack the Ripper's
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  Speaker 2: reign of terror. Annie Chapman had been married to a
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  Speaker 2: man named John Chapman, and together they would have three children, Emily, Annie,
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  Speaker 2: and John, each of them naming a child after themselves.
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  Speaker 2: And their eldest, Emily, would unfortunately pass from meningitis when
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  Speaker 2: she was only 12 years old, in 1882. And Annie
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  Speaker 2: and John would unfortunately separate about two to three years
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  Speaker 2: after Emily had passed away, in either 1884 or 1885.
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  Speaker 2: John would send Annie about 10 shillings a week, which
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  Speaker 2: she would live off of, which sounds... Crazy to me.
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  Speaker 2: But she would also live off her meager earnings from
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  Speaker 2: selling flowers as well and her crochet work. But on
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  Speaker 2: Christmas day in 1886, however, John would unfortunately pass away
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  Speaker 2: and Annie would turn to for work with no more
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  Speaker 2: allowance coming from her husband anymore. So on the night
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  Speaker 2: of September 8th, 1888, Annie Chapman, similar to Mary Ann Nichols,
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  Speaker 2: would leave her lodging not able to pay for the
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  Speaker 2: night and she would go to work on the streets.
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  Speaker 2: And Annie would last be seen alive by her friend,
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  Speaker 2: at 1.35 a.m., walking along Brushfield Street. And about only
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  Speaker 2: an hour later, her body would be found in the
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  Speaker 2: backyard of 29 Hanbury Street, which was a lodging house.
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  Speaker 2: And Annie Chapman would be killed in the same way
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  Speaker 2: that Mary Ann Nichols was killed, with her throat and
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  Speaker 2: her abdomen completely open, but she would actually be in
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  Speaker 2: an even worse state than Marianne Nichols. Her insides had
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  Speaker 2: actually been pulled out of her cavity and they would
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  Speaker 2: be placed over her shoulder. Still all connected, by the way. It's...
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  Speaker 2: Saying it, reading about it, and then saying it out loud,
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  Speaker 2: it just, it's just, it makes me... cringe a lot. Oh, God. Poor,
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  Speaker 2: poor woman. This man was a f * * *
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  Speaker 2: ing monster. She would also be missing her uterus and
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  Speaker 2: her bladder, and she'd also be missing her lady parts
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  Speaker 2: as well. Like, there's a reason they called him Jack
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  Speaker 2: the Ripper. Like, I don't, I don't understand. And a
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  Speaker 2: young carpenter who had lived in the neighboring 27 Hanbury
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  Speaker 2: Street had reported hearing a woman scream, no, before hearing
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  Speaker 2: something fall against a fence connecting to the yards of
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  Speaker 2: 27 and 29 Hanbury Street. And you just didn't go
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  Speaker 2: and check it out. You just, is that, is that normal?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that was normal, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: There's probably a bunch of stuff happening on the street.
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  Speaker 2: I would probably check it out. Call the cops. I guess,
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  Speaker 2: did they even have phones? Oh my God, one more
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  Speaker 2: phone's invented. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just.
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  Speaker 2: I'm upset. So Annie would be Jack the Ripper's second
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  Speaker 2: victim that we know of. Which brings us to his
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  Speaker 2: third victim, Elizabeth Stride. Elizabeth Stride, also known as Long Liz,
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  Speaker 2: was the third victim of Jack the Ripper. She was
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  Speaker 2: born in Sweden, actually, and moved to England in 1866
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  Speaker 2: at the age of 23. The year before, she had
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  Speaker 2: given birth to a stillborn daughter following a pregnancy that
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  Speaker 2: resulted in her work in... and she would continue her
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  Speaker 2: work as a lady of the night in England. Though
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  Speaker 2: she would occasionally clean houses and later marry a man
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  Speaker 2: named John Stride, with whom she would actually open a
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  Speaker 2: coffee shop with. But their marriage would eventually deteriorate, however,
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  Speaker 2: and they would separate with John selling the coffee shop
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  Speaker 2: due to financial issues, which was all too prevalent at
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  Speaker 2: the time. If you can't see a pattern that's happening
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  Speaker 2: with separations and then money problems, it was just like
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  Speaker 2: an ongoing problem with most of the population. it seems.
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  Speaker 2: Especially people that were more hard on financial times. So
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  Speaker 2: on September 29th, 1888, Elizabeth was paid six pence to
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  Speaker 2: clean two rooms at her lodge house on 32 Flower
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  Speaker 2: and Dean Street. And this was a notorious slum with
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  Speaker 2: little to no sanitation, with crime being a very, very
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  Speaker 2: frequent occurrence, dubbed by some the worst street in London.
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  Speaker 2: But this would not be the worst street for Elizabeth Stride,
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  Speaker 2: as that would be reserved for Burner Street, where late
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  Speaker 2: that night or early in the morning on September 30th, 1888,
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  Speaker 2: Elizabeth would become the third victim of Jack the Ripper.
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  Speaker 2: So on Burner Street, Elizabeth's body would be discovered in
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  Speaker 2: the yard connected by the alley seen under the cartwheel,
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  Speaker 2: in between the buildings. Her body would be discovered around
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  Speaker 2: 1 o'clock in the morning, similar to the other bodies.
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  Speaker 2: This guy's on a tight schedule, I don't know why,
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  Speaker 2: and would still be flowing from the knife wound in
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  Speaker 2: her neck, seemingly indicating that the Ripper might have been
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  Speaker 2: interrupted during this process, and that he had to flee
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  Speaker 2: to avoid discovery, and he couldn't finish his work. His work.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And this would be the closest he ever got to
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  Speaker 2: actually being caught. And due to the lack of mutilation
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  Speaker 2: of Elizabeth's body, thank God, police were initially unsure if
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  Speaker 2: it was the doing of Jack the Ripper. Until further
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  Speaker 2: events on the 30th would provide clarity. So perhaps due
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  Speaker 2: to the unfinished nature of the killing, September 30th would
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  Speaker 2: be a very busy night for the Ripper, as it
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  Speaker 2: would be the same night another body was found. Catherine
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  Speaker 2: Adowes may have very well been able to live to
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  Speaker 2: see October. As around 8.30, a constable would find her
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  Speaker 2: lying down in the pavement, near 29 Aldgate High Street.
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  Speaker 2: Louis Frederick Robinson, the constable, initially tried to assist Catherine
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  Speaker 2: to her feet. But after she would slump back over,
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  Speaker 2: it took Louis and another constable, George Simmons, to get
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  Speaker 2: her to Bishopsgate Station, where she was held until she
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  Speaker 2: sobered up. And Catherine would be released around 1 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bad time. It's a bad time to be
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  Speaker 2: on the streets at 1 a.m. in London. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: About at the same time that Elizabeth Stride was killed.
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  Speaker 2: And 44 minutes later, 44 minutes later, Catherine's body would
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  Speaker 2: be discovered. And... on the southwest corner of Mitre Square
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  Speaker 2: by the police. Her throat, like the others, would also
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  Speaker 2: be and similar to Annie, her insides would also be
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  Speaker 2: taken out and draped over her shoulder as well, with
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  Speaker 2: a piece about two feet long completely removed and placed
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  Speaker 2: between her body and her left arm with intention. Her
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  Speaker 2: face would also be very severely and an earlobe as well.
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  Speaker 2: So personally, I do think that these additional injuries were
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  Speaker 2: a result of him not being able to finish the
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  Speaker 2: kill before on Elizabeth. And he was just so pent
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  Speaker 2: up that he took all of his frustration out on Catherine.
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  Speaker 2: It's such an unfortunate series of events. I just can't.
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  Speaker 2: And like that we like have photos of the bodies
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  Speaker 2: for some reason, I don't know. But like if they
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  Speaker 2: have them on the internet, I'm not gonna show them obviously.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't even look at them. Like they're horrible.
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  Speaker 2: absolutely horrible. So the murder of Elizabeth and Catherine would
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  Speaker 2: be called the double event after a letter was received
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  Speaker 2: allegedly from Jack the Ripper claimed the responsibility for the
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  Speaker 2: two murders and it would be received by the London
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  Speaker 2: authorities with blood on the letter as well because he's
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  Speaker 2: a sick and it would say this.
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  Speaker 1: I was not cutting dear old boss when I gave
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  Speaker 1: you the tip You'll hear about Saucy Jackie's work tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Double event this time. Number one squealed a bit. Couldn't
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  Speaker 1: finish straight off. Had not time to get ears for police.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for keeping last letter back till I got to
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  Speaker 1: work again. Jack the Ripper.
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  Speaker 2: And this was supposedly what the letter said. It's not
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  Speaker 2: for sure. It's just supposedly. And this leads us to
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  Speaker 2: our next victim, which was Mary Jane Kelly. And Mary
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  Speaker 2: Jane Kelly was almost as mysterious as Jack the Ripper himself,
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  Speaker 2: as her name is a topic of some debate, seeing
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  Speaker 2: as she also went by several other names. Marie Jeanette Kelly,
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  Speaker 2: Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary, and Black Mary. I didn't,
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  Speaker 2: I want to go by a different name. That sounds fun.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a nickname down in the comments below. She
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  Speaker 2: also worked as a... And while the details of her
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  Speaker 2: life are largely unknown, what we do know is that
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  Speaker 2: her murder was by far the most gruesome out of
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  Speaker 2: all of them. So on the night of November 9th, 1888,
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  Speaker 2: she was in her room at 13 Miller's Court off
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  Speaker 2: Dorset Street, a slum that would frequently be occupied by
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  Speaker 2: criminals and she would last be seen alive around 2 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: by her neighbor while singing a song. And about seven
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  Speaker 2: hours later, her body would be found in her room
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  Speaker 2: by her landlord's assistant. which is much different than the
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  Speaker 2: other girls. They would all be found in the streets
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  Speaker 2: or street corners or alleyways, but she was actually found
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  Speaker 2: in her room and they would find her because they
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  Speaker 2: came to collect rent. And like I said, her body
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  Speaker 2: was by far the most brutal murder out of all
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  Speaker 2: of them. Like there's crime scene photos. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 2: show them obviously, but I have trouble keeping track food down.
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  Speaker 2: Her throat, like the others, was... And her abdomen would
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  Speaker 2: also be opened, but they would be completely emptied of
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  Speaker 2: everything that was inside. Her heart would be missing, and
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  Speaker 2: her face and neck were beyond recognition. Her left arm
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  Speaker 2: would be partially removed, and her top area was also
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  Speaker 2: completely removed. And most of these removed parts would be
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  Speaker 2: found just scattered around the room, whereas the heart was
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  Speaker 2: never found. So as you probably noticed over the course
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  Speaker 2: of the stories told of these women being murdered, Jack
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  Speaker 2: the Ripper had a very specific type. Each of them
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  Speaker 2: were and many of them struggled with alcoholism. And who
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  Speaker 2: knows what exactly motivated Jack the Ripper. Did he hate women?
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  Speaker 2: Did he hate ladies of the night specifically? You could
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  Speaker 2: basically speculate endlessly since this happened 135 years ago. But
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  Speaker 2: there are some clues to point us in the direction
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  Speaker 2: of who this man might've been. So each woman was
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  Speaker 2: killed with their throat. And that combined with the almost
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  Speaker 2: surgical of the bodies has led some to theorize that
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  Speaker 2: Jack the Ripper was a surgeon or a doctor or
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  Speaker 2: someone in the medical field or someone with medical training
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  Speaker 2: at least, given his familiarity with the human anatomy, which
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  Speaker 2: I think is very fair to assume. So let's go
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  Speaker 2: over the usual suspects. So despite the efforts of the
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  Speaker 2: police and the public, no one was ever arrested for
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  Speaker 2: the murders of these five women. However, over the years,
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  Speaker 2: many theories and suspects have been proposed, and some more
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  Speaker 2: plausible than others. So we're going to explore the most
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  Speaker 2: prominent and controversial suspects. Montag John Druitt, Aaron Kosminski, and
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  Speaker 2: Walter Sickert. Very weird names. Montag John Druitt was a
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  Speaker 2: barrister and a teacher who came from a wealthy and
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  Speaker 2: respectable family. He was also an avid cricketer who played
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  Speaker 2: for multiple clubs. He was described by his friends and
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  Speaker 2: colleagues as... quiet, intelligent, and a very gentlemanly person. However,
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  Speaker 2: he also suffered from depression and other mental instability, which
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  Speaker 2: would worsen after his father's death in, wait for it, 1888,
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  Speaker 2: the same year that all these women were killed. He
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  Speaker 2: would be dismissed from his teaching position shortly after his
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  Speaker 2: slower slide of drowning himself in the Tame's in December, 1888.
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  Speaker 2: His body would be found near Chiswick on the 31st
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  Speaker 2: of December, a few weeks after the last Ripper murder.
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  Speaker 2: And Druitt would first be named a suspect by Sir
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  Speaker 2: Melville McNaughton, the assistant chief constable of the Metropolitan Police
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  Speaker 2: in a private memorandum written in 1894. McNaughton would claim
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  Speaker 2: that Druitt was sejly insane and that he would have
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  Speaker 2: a very strong resemblance to the Ripper's description. He also
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: said that Druitt's slur slide was a confession of guilt
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: and that the murder stopped after it happened as well. However,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: McNaughton's evidence was basically based on hearsay and speculation, and
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: he did not provide any solid proof of Druitt committing
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: these crimes. Moreover, Druitt's alibi was never really thoroughly investigated either,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: and some modern authors have cast doubt on his involvement
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: So.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's like weird timing, but there's a
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: lot of people in London, so I don't know if
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: you can coincide all of that together as he being
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: the Ripper. I don't know, he's not my first choice.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Let's go on to the second. Aaron Kosminski. Aaron Kosminski
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: was a Polish Jew that immigrated to London in the
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: early 1880s. He would live in the heart of Whitechapel,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: where the Ripper murders took place. He would be a
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: barber by trade, Sharp stuff. But he also suffered from
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: paranoid schizophrenia and violent tendencies. He was also known to
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: have a great hatred toward women, specifically to And he
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: would be frequently hospitalized in asylums for his mental condition.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: And he would die in 1919 inside of a mental institution.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: And Kosminski would be the first named suspect by Sir
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Robert Anderson, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the Metropolitan Police, in his memoir published in 1910. Anderson
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: would claim that the Ripper was a Polish Jew who
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: was actually identified by a witness but not prosecuted because
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the witness refused to testify against a fellow Jew. He
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: also claimed that the Ripper would probably be confined in
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: an asylum shortly after the last murder, and that he
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: knew his name. However, Anderson did not reveal the name
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: of the suspect or the witness, and his account would
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: be contradicted by other police officials and documents. Kosminski would
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: later be identified as a suspect by Donald Swanson, the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: chief inspector who actually led the Ripper investigation. in a
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: handwritten note on the margin of Anderson's memoirs. However, Swanson's
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: note wouldn't be discovered until 1987, and it also contains
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: some inconsistencies and errors. So again, there's just not enough evidence.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: It's all like basically circumstantial at this point. So let's
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: move on to the next one, nay, the last one.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Walter Sickert. Walter Sickert was a painter and printmaker who
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: who was one of the founders of Camden Town Group,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: a group of artists who depicted the urban life of
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: London in the early 20th century. He was also a
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: friend and a pupil of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, one
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: of the most influential artists at the time. He was
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: known for very realistic and expressive portraits, landscapes, and scenes
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: of music halls and theaters. He was also very interested
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: in the social and political issues of the era, and
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: he also commented on them in his work, and he
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: would die in 1942. And Sickert would be first named
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: a suspect by Jean Overturn Fuller, a writer and friend
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: of Sickert's widow. In her book, Sickert and the Ripper Crimes,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: published in 1990, Fullert would claim that Sickert had actually
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: confessed to being the Ripper in a letter to his
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: own wife, and that he would leave clues and hints
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: in his paintings and writings. He would also claim that
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Sickert had a deformed, member, and he also had visual
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: impotence that would drive him to murder. Which, that makes
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of sense. This one, this one tickles my brain.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I think it makes a lot of sense, but I digress. However,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Fuller's evidence would be based off dubious sources and interpretations,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: and she would not provide any solid proof to link
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Sickert to the crimes. Sickert would allegedly boast about renting
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: an art studio formerly occupied by Jack the Ripper, which
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: is suspicious because Jack was never identified, and no one
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: could know what he owned because he was never identified.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Sickert would also paint a piece called Jack the Ripper's Bedroom,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: and some of his own art is up for sale,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: which is crazy. I kind of want to look. Oh, wow.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: That's wild. How much is this? I'm not gonna get it.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I'm just curious.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I digress. And moreover, Sickers' alibi was also never
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: thoroughly investigated. And some modern authors have also cast doubt
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: on his involvement as well. But these are just three
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: of the many suspects proposed as Jack the Ripper. And
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: at one point, evidence seemingly had come out linking that
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: one of those three more concretely as Jack the Ripper.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Is it the artist who claimed to be Jack the
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Ripper in private correspondence? Who painted the Ripper's bedroom? And
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: painted the studio supposedly... previously occupied by the murderer? Or
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: is it the Jewish schizophrenic barber with a hatred for
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: who was witnessed by a fellow Jewish individual who refused
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: to testify against another Jew? Or could it have been
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: the mentally unstable barrister who was said to be sigilly
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: insane who committed slower slide shortly after the fifth murder,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: possibly being why there was no sixths? We'll never probably know.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: But we do have some DNA revelations. According to the article,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Jack the Ripper's True Identity, recent findings suggest that Kosminski
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: might have actually been the Jack the Ripper, based on
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: DNA evidence obtained from a shawl belonging to one of
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: the victims, Catherine Adowes. The shawl was found by her
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: body in Matre Square on September 30th, 1888. And it
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: contained blood and, you know, stains. other stains, cement stains,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: you know? The shawl would be preserved by a police
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: officer who took it as a souvenir. What were we
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: doing back then? A souvenir? That's sick. But it would
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: later be acquired by a collector who gave it to
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: forensic experts for analysis. The forensic expert doctor, I'm gonna
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: butcher this, I'm sorry. Lou Helenin?
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Lou.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Lua Lannan, Lua Lannan, sorry, used a technique called vacuuming
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: to extract the DNA from the shawl. And he would
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: compare it to the DNA of living relatives of Kosminski
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: and Adauz. He would find a match for the bloodstains
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: and Adauz descendant and a match between the Samanstain and
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Kosminski's descendant. He would also determine that the killer would
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: have brown eyes and brown hair, which would match Kosminski's description.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I think that would match most people's description, but the
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: DNA is interesting. So the DNA evidence is the first
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: piece of actual forensic proof that links Kosminski to the
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Ripper murders. And it does support the claim that some
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: of the police officers named him as a suspect in
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: their memoirs. However, the evidence is not conclusive and it
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: has been challenged by some critics who question the validity
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: and the reliability of the shawl. the DNA extraction, and
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: the comparison methods. Which brings us to our final chapter.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: There are lots of rumors and accused who are said
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: to be Jack the Ripper, but a former police volunteer
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: has stated that she has found medical evidence that she
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: believes links the man behind Jack the Ripper. Sarah Bax
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Horton has named Haim Haims. What kind of name is that?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Is the man responsible for the murders of at least
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: six women in or near Whitechapel, East London, between August
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: and November, 1888. And ironically enough, Miss Baxton's grandfather actually
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: worked on Jack the Ripper's investigation case back in 1888.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And he would investigate and examine medical records and witness records.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: So Chaim Chaims was born in Aldgate on February 8th, 1855.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: And he would be the son of Solomon Chaims, who
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: was a cigar marker according to the 1871 consensus. And
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: after 1881, Chaims would be married to a woman named Rachel.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: And in 1888, the year of the Ripper murders, he
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: would have two children, a son named William and a
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: daughter named Kate. And on the morning of December 29th, 1888,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Hyams would be taken into custody by one of the
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: members of the Metropolitan Police in Whitechapel. And he would
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: be sent to the Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary, where he was
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: diagnosed with delirium tremens. And this disorder was known as
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: a disordered state of mind that was usually accompanied by
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: hallucinations and terrifying delusions brought to light by severe alcoholism.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: And 13 days later, he would be discharged, all to
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: be readmitted three months later. He was shown to have
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: a very weak mind, and he was transferred to the
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, arriving restrained and in a noisy condition.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: And according to the asylum, he was listed as violent
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: and dangerous, especially to his wife. There's a quote that says,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Injured mother's head with chopper when attacking his wife. Epileptic
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: and irritable after fits. Addicted to drink.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a treat. So on the 30th of August, 1889,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: after about four months, he would be discharged from the
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: asylum and deemed as recovered. But only 10 days later,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: this mother would be readmitted again as an insane person
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: after attacking and... his own wife. He was described as
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: being the terror of the city of London police. Sounds
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: like another guy we know, doesn't it? doesn't it now?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: According to his wife, Rachel, he was actually responsible for
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: four miscarriages from abuse and deranged behavior because he would
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: beat her thinking that she was cheating on him. And
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: for the past nine years, he had been suffering from
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: periodic epileptic attacks and was becoming more and more violent.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: But at times he was noted as being like kind
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and civil, a very attentive to his personal appearance and grooming.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: But four months later, again, The 4th of January, 1890,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: he was transferred back to Colney Hatch Asylum. His case
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: notes would refer to him as very frequent epileptic fits
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: and then very violent and filthy, otherwise quiet, but bitter
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: against his wife. No f * * * ing shit,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: he s * * * her.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: He s * * *.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Her and beat her.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: What?
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: But these fits were apparently cyclical and hyams would be
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: well for like a month at a time. And he
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: was also described as a crafty and dangerous maniac who
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: destroys his bedding and pants, his walls in filth, shouting
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: the most obscene languages and practicing self abuse, which is
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: otherwise known as self pleasure, I guess. And his delusions
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: would just continue as he would attack medical staff during
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: his visits until eventually he would die in the asylum
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: on March 22nd, 1913, where epilepsy and cardiovascular degeneration were
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: listed as the causes. So why was he a suspect?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: According to the woman stated before, Ms. Bax Horton stated
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: that eyewitness said he had a particular gait. He would
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: be weak in the knees and not be able to
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: fully extend his legs, a side effect of brain damage
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: due to epilepsy. And according to Haim's uncle, John Levy,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: who was running a cigar manufacturing business next door to
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Haim's address, found a long kniff wrapped in bloodstained handkerchief
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: the day after the murder of Stride and Adowes. So
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: maybe it was just a coincidence that Adowes' body was
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: found near the back of the shop that had been
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: owned by Haim Haim's uncle. But it seems like at
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: least at this point, some of the evidence actually does
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: point to Haim Haim's. He may not fit some descriptions,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: but his mental state definitely made him a clear suspect
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: in this case. So if it wasn't Haim Haims, it
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: was someone just like him. A mentally ill, deranged, psychopathic,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: monster piece of shit. But I'm not sure how they're
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: actually supposed to solve the Jack the Ripper case, given
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: that it's over 120 years ago. So scrounging garage sales
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: for DNA samples just to get a hint about Jack
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: the Ripper is almost a psychopathic behavior in and of itself.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: The guy is dead. Spoiler alert. And everyone that knew
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: him is also dead. Spoiler alert. So it's not like
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: you can give the families much relief given that they
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: have died, you know, time and time again at this point.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: It's still awful. And I mean, you know, to know
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: his identity would be insane and amazing because he is
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: quite literally, I'd say probably the most infamous serial killer
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: of all time. So I don't think that anybody's going
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: to receive any closure anytime soon, but who knows? Who knows?
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe technology is going to get crazy. Maybe we'll get
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: a time machine. Maybe we can go back. Maybe we
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: can prevent these murders. We can prevent a lot. That
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: would be crazy. Anyway, Jack the Ripper obviously still haunts
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: the minds of a lot of us true crime folk.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: And there's no telling how much longer it's actually going
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: to take to solve this case. But here's hoping, you know,
• 29:02
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• 29:04
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