1 00:00:15,356 --> 00:00:27,156 Speaker 1: Pushkin. The woman was weary. She'd spent the evening at 2 00:00:27,156 --> 00:00:30,476 Speaker 1: the Lion's Corner house in Piccadilly, and the large clock 3 00:00:30,516 --> 00:00:34,116 Speaker 1: outside Cafe Monaco told her it had just gone two 4 00:00:34,156 --> 00:00:39,596 Speaker 1: in the morning. Time to go home. An airman approached her, 5 00:00:40,316 --> 00:00:44,476 Speaker 1: a man with rather sharp pointed features beneath a sweep 6 00:00:44,556 --> 00:00:45,356 Speaker 1: of dark hair. 7 00:00:46,076 --> 00:00:47,196 Speaker 2: Which way are you going? 8 00:00:47,476 --> 00:00:50,196 Speaker 1: They were heading roughly in the same direction, and so 9 00:00:50,356 --> 00:00:52,916 Speaker 1: the woman agreed to share her cab with him. 10 00:00:52,996 --> 00:00:54,636 Speaker 3: I should have been back by eleven. 11 00:00:54,316 --> 00:00:58,276 Speaker 1: O'clock, the airmen murmured inside the vehicle, but he cannot 12 00:00:58,276 --> 00:01:00,756 Speaker 1: have been very concerned about being a wall. 13 00:01:01,836 --> 00:01:04,996 Speaker 2: He then asked, could I spend hour with you? I 14 00:01:04,996 --> 00:01:07,116 Speaker 2: will give you two pounds as a present. 15 00:01:07,756 --> 00:01:10,956 Speaker 1: Between jobs. At the time, the woman occasionally took men 16 00:01:11,036 --> 00:01:13,516 Speaker 1: back to her flat for money, and this seemed like 17 00:01:13,516 --> 00:01:16,996 Speaker 1: a reasonable offer, so she permitted him to accompany her 18 00:01:17,076 --> 00:01:21,156 Speaker 1: up the stairs to her apartment. We can't be sure 19 00:01:21,196 --> 00:01:25,676 Speaker 1: of the address, nor even the woman's name. Those particulars 20 00:01:25,836 --> 00:01:29,636 Speaker 1: were entered on a police report about her brush with death, 21 00:01:30,236 --> 00:01:33,556 Speaker 1: but then redacted with thick black swipes of a pen 22 00:01:34,276 --> 00:01:38,516 Speaker 1: for reasons unknown. We do know that the woman noticed 23 00:01:38,516 --> 00:01:42,356 Speaker 1: that her guest boots were shabby, too shabby, she thought, 24 00:01:42,716 --> 00:01:46,236 Speaker 1: given his posh manner of speech. When she went to 25 00:01:46,276 --> 00:01:48,636 Speaker 1: remove her skirt, he stopped her. 26 00:01:49,476 --> 00:01:52,916 Speaker 3: That won't be necessary. I only want to talk. I've 27 00:01:52,956 --> 00:01:54,116 Speaker 3: been drinking too much. 28 00:01:54,636 --> 00:01:58,196 Speaker 1: The woman was surprised, but she was happy to play along. 29 00:01:59,076 --> 00:02:01,516 Speaker 1: The airman told her that he'd been at the Brasserie 30 00:02:01,556 --> 00:02:04,956 Speaker 1: Universal that evening and left his gas mask behind. 31 00:02:05,956 --> 00:02:07,796 Speaker 4: Won't you get into trouble being out in the street 32 00:02:07,796 --> 00:02:08,876 Speaker 4: without one. 33 00:02:08,756 --> 00:02:11,556 Speaker 2: Shed and no one will see me at this time 34 00:02:11,596 --> 00:02:11,956 Speaker 2: of night. 35 00:02:12,076 --> 00:02:16,756 Speaker 1: The woman studied his face. He looked tired, especially around 36 00:02:16,756 --> 00:02:19,916 Speaker 1: the eyes, and it seems she wanted to be kind. 37 00:02:20,876 --> 00:02:21,996 Speaker 4: I have one here you can have. 38 00:02:22,676 --> 00:02:25,556 Speaker 1: She gave him a spare military gas mask she just 39 00:02:25,636 --> 00:02:28,956 Speaker 1: happened to have lying around, And they sat and chatted 40 00:02:29,076 --> 00:02:32,596 Speaker 1: a little while longer, but all the while the man 41 00:02:32,636 --> 00:02:35,556 Speaker 1: that slipped no detail of the true events of the 42 00:02:35,676 --> 00:02:39,956 Speaker 1: last few hours. For the man sat quietly talking in 43 00:02:39,996 --> 00:02:44,116 Speaker 1: this flat had tried to strangle Greta Heyward in the street, 44 00:02:44,916 --> 00:02:50,636 Speaker 1: and then Catherine Mulcahey in her own bed, and undiscovered 45 00:02:50,676 --> 00:02:54,636 Speaker 1: in her flat by Hyde Park. Doris Chuane's body lay 46 00:02:54,836 --> 00:03:00,116 Speaker 1: torn and broken, just as he'd left her. As four 47 00:03:00,156 --> 00:03:04,756 Speaker 1: am approached, the man made his move, making sure he 48 00:03:04,836 --> 00:03:09,076 Speaker 1: had the woman's name, telephone number, and probably noting down 49 00:03:09,196 --> 00:03:14,956 Speaker 1: her address. With care, Gordon Cummins crossed the room and left. 50 00:03:15,996 --> 00:03:19,716 Speaker 1: He had what he needed from this woman. He would 51 00:03:19,796 --> 00:03:24,876 Speaker 1: let her live, for she was his alibi. Donning his 52 00:03:24,996 --> 00:03:28,956 Speaker 1: overcoat and picking up his new gas mask, the darkness 53 00:03:28,956 --> 00:03:52,436 Speaker 1: of the night swallowed him up once more. This is 54 00:03:52,516 --> 00:03:55,516 Speaker 1: the seldom told story of women in World War Two 55 00:03:56,076 --> 00:03:59,676 Speaker 1: who were killed not by the enemy, but by husbands, lovers, 56 00:03:59,716 --> 00:04:04,636 Speaker 1: and strangers wearing the uniform of their own side. It's 57 00:04:04,716 --> 00:04:07,996 Speaker 1: also the tale of a particular string of murder victims 58 00:04:08,356 --> 00:04:12,316 Speaker 1: that history swept from view. I'm Hallie Rubinhold. 59 00:04:12,276 --> 00:04:14,076 Speaker 5: And I'm Alice Fines. 60 00:04:14,116 --> 00:04:17,476 Speaker 1: And you're listening to bad Women the blackout Ripper. 61 00:04:44,236 --> 00:04:46,756 Speaker 3: Where's fifteen minutes later? 62 00:04:46,796 --> 00:04:50,076 Speaker 2: Already my aunt contres going to the Dog's honest. 63 00:04:50,196 --> 00:04:57,556 Speaker 5: The Edgeware Road throng with traffic. Bicycles wove through a 64 00:04:57,636 --> 00:05:00,996 Speaker 5: long line of buses and taxis that nose to tail 65 00:05:02,516 --> 00:05:05,356 Speaker 5: inch north from Hyde Park towards the suburbs. 66 00:05:05,596 --> 00:05:08,396 Speaker 6: OK, so you dry your grandma, hurry up now, Johnny, 67 00:05:08,396 --> 00:05:10,956 Speaker 6: come along. Yes, I haven't gone enough to do, be 68 00:05:11,036 --> 00:05:12,796 Speaker 6: a good boy, and don't keep stopping. 69 00:05:13,116 --> 00:05:17,396 Speaker 5: Harried housewives pounded the pavements, scolding their children as they 70 00:05:17,516 --> 00:05:21,116 Speaker 5: struggled under the burden of that day's grocery shopping. 71 00:05:20,396 --> 00:05:22,956 Speaker 6: Don't your father, what a bother you've into me to day? 72 00:05:23,196 --> 00:05:26,916 Speaker 5: It rang with the excited chatter of theatergoers off to 73 00:05:26,956 --> 00:05:32,436 Speaker 5: see variety acts of the Metropolitan, and it pulsated too 74 00:05:32,596 --> 00:05:38,076 Speaker 5: with vice in hotels and furnished rooms. Even in Hyde 75 00:05:38,076 --> 00:05:42,876 Speaker 5: Park itself, women sold sex to working class men and 76 00:05:42,996 --> 00:05:47,956 Speaker 5: more affluent clients alike. The Edgeware Road was grimier and 77 00:05:48,196 --> 00:05:52,556 Speaker 5: seedier than nearby Soho accommodation here could be had cheaply, 78 00:05:53,236 --> 00:05:56,556 Speaker 5: making it an economical workplace for women looking to earn 79 00:05:56,716 --> 00:06:01,236 Speaker 5: tidy profits in the sex trade. Perhaps this was why 80 00:06:01,356 --> 00:06:04,916 Speaker 5: Doris Robson chose two forty Edgeware Road as her home 81 00:06:05,956 --> 00:06:08,796 Speaker 5: in her late twenties. She appears to have seen an. 82 00:06:08,716 --> 00:06:13,876 Speaker 7: Advert for a large bed sitting room very comfortable. 83 00:06:13,876 --> 00:06:18,356 Speaker 5: And set herself up there. Doris had been born in 84 00:06:18,396 --> 00:06:23,516 Speaker 5: England's northeast. She'd likely experience prejudice growing up because raised 85 00:06:23,556 --> 00:06:26,476 Speaker 5: by a single mother and an aunt, she'd been born 86 00:06:26,556 --> 00:06:31,956 Speaker 5: out of wedlock, she was illegitimate, a bastard. While some 87 00:06:32,036 --> 00:06:36,636 Speaker 5: were kind to single mothers, moralizers pronounced them bad women, 88 00:06:37,396 --> 00:06:40,396 Speaker 5: warning that their offspring would tainted and would only grow 89 00:06:40,476 --> 00:06:45,036 Speaker 5: up to be trouble. But now Doris was making her 90 00:06:45,156 --> 00:06:48,516 Speaker 5: own way in the world, and she'd totally cast off 91 00:06:48,556 --> 00:06:52,676 Speaker 5: that childhood identity. She introduced herself to her new next 92 00:06:52,676 --> 00:06:57,076 Speaker 5: door neighbor, Peggy Hemmings, not as Doris, but as Olga. 93 00:06:58,476 --> 00:07:02,516 Speaker 5: Perhaps Doris wanted to create an air of continental mystique 94 00:07:02,556 --> 00:07:07,716 Speaker 5: and sophistication. Olga suggested roots in central or eastern Europe, 95 00:07:08,196 --> 00:07:14,156 Speaker 5: the name of an exld white Russian countess. Even tall, 96 00:07:14,436 --> 00:07:18,436 Speaker 5: willowy and fair haired, Doris was said to be refined 97 00:07:18,756 --> 00:07:22,636 Speaker 5: and well educated. She was also hot tempered. 98 00:07:23,436 --> 00:07:26,716 Speaker 6: Olga was temperamental and at times was very moody. 99 00:07:27,476 --> 00:07:31,876 Speaker 5: Neatly dressed and manicured, Doris projected an image of glamour, 100 00:07:32,596 --> 00:07:36,996 Speaker 5: but occasionally the mask slipped and her poise and confidence 101 00:07:37,076 --> 00:07:41,836 Speaker 5: would falter. When she walked, she stooped a little, as 102 00:07:41,836 --> 00:07:45,916 Speaker 5: though embarrassed by her statuesque frame and hoping to appear 103 00:07:46,076 --> 00:07:53,796 Speaker 5: more dainty. Doris seems to have enjoyed life in London 104 00:07:54,156 --> 00:07:57,476 Speaker 5: and was known to peruse the Grand West End apartment 105 00:07:57,516 --> 00:07:58,516 Speaker 5: store selfrages. 106 00:07:59,156 --> 00:08:02,756 Speaker 4: Oh I like that suit. It's nice, isn't it look 107 00:08:02,956 --> 00:08:03,196 Speaker 4: on you? 108 00:08:03,556 --> 00:08:03,796 Speaker 2: Oh? 109 00:08:03,836 --> 00:08:06,636 Speaker 6: I love Lily of the Valley, my favorite scent. 110 00:08:07,156 --> 00:08:10,996 Speaker 5: But apparently her modest upbringing had left a lasting impression. 111 00:08:11,636 --> 00:08:14,996 Speaker 5: According to Peggy, Doris was thrifty. 112 00:08:15,276 --> 00:08:19,356 Speaker 6: Seldom she brought any new clothes, and was careful when spending. 113 00:08:20,396 --> 00:08:23,436 Speaker 5: Even though Peggy didn't know Doris by her real name, 114 00:08:24,116 --> 00:08:27,876 Speaker 5: she believed they shared a unique and profound bond. 115 00:08:28,716 --> 00:08:30,996 Speaker 6: I do not think that any woman knew her private 116 00:08:30,996 --> 00:08:32,116 Speaker 6: affairs as I did. 117 00:08:33,756 --> 00:08:38,876 Speaker 5: Doris indeed kept her secrets closely guarded, presenting one face 118 00:08:38,916 --> 00:08:42,076 Speaker 5: to certain people in her life and a different face 119 00:08:42,396 --> 00:08:43,636 Speaker 5: entirely to others. 120 00:08:45,316 --> 00:08:47,676 Speaker 2: The polo part is very popular, sir, but I will 121 00:08:47,676 --> 00:08:49,716 Speaker 2: also recommend Felia de Solmone. 122 00:08:50,116 --> 00:08:53,716 Speaker 1: The bar at Odanino's was one of Doris's favorite haunts. 123 00:08:53,756 --> 00:08:57,476 Speaker 2: Affiliate Bfrischia for You, Madam, and the Asper Jean Glais Ostivi. 124 00:08:58,516 --> 00:09:03,116 Speaker 1: The luxurious hotel and restaurant marketed itself as the center 125 00:09:03,156 --> 00:09:07,636 Speaker 1: of the world and boasted an exquisite cabaret, the finest 126 00:09:07,676 --> 00:09:13,156 Speaker 1: cuisine in Europe, and nightly dancing. The establishment stood proudly 127 00:09:13,236 --> 00:09:17,036 Speaker 1: behind Grand Colonnades on Regent Street, at the confluence of 128 00:09:17,196 --> 00:09:25,156 Speaker 1: Racy Soho, Ritzy Piccadilly and stately Mayfair. According to one friend, Doris. 129 00:09:24,956 --> 00:09:27,996 Speaker 7: Liked to pick up clients here because there are nyther class, 130 00:09:29,156 --> 00:09:32,196 Speaker 7: and those clients had to be of a nicer class 131 00:09:32,636 --> 00:09:35,436 Speaker 7: because her services were expensive. 132 00:09:35,836 --> 00:09:39,036 Speaker 6: Olga was not the ordinary type. 133 00:09:39,236 --> 00:09:40,396 Speaker 1: Said Peggy Hemmings. 134 00:09:41,516 --> 00:09:44,236 Speaker 6: She had whips and tight fitting corsets, and often, she 135 00:09:44,316 --> 00:09:47,716 Speaker 6: told me, she enjoyed unusual methods. 136 00:09:48,756 --> 00:09:51,556 Speaker 1: Doris's methods may not have been the norm. 137 00:09:51,636 --> 00:09:53,236 Speaker 5: But they were far from unusual. 138 00:09:53,836 --> 00:09:56,476 Speaker 1: In fact, they were a long established feature of the 139 00:09:56,556 --> 00:10:01,036 Speaker 1: London sex scene. In the Victorian era, certain brothels had 140 00:10:01,076 --> 00:10:05,876 Speaker 1: become well known for providing so called perversions. Establishments like 141 00:10:05,996 --> 00:10:09,876 Speaker 1: Mary Jeffrey's house in Chelsea were frequented by a prominent 142 00:10:10,036 --> 00:10:14,796 Speaker 1: and influential clientele who visited for bondage, caning and whipping. 143 00:10:15,636 --> 00:10:19,276 Speaker 1: And when in the nineteen thirties Parisian mart Watts came 144 00:10:19,316 --> 00:10:22,996 Speaker 1: to London, she was surprised to discover just how many 145 00:10:23,036 --> 00:10:26,276 Speaker 1: of her clients had a penchon for masochism and domination. 146 00:10:27,476 --> 00:10:31,076 Speaker 1: One wanted her to file her nails to points and 147 00:10:31,316 --> 00:10:34,996 Speaker 1: gouge at his skin until he bled. Others asked to 148 00:10:35,036 --> 00:10:39,236 Speaker 1: be bound and beaten. Mart had worked all over the world, 149 00:10:39,796 --> 00:10:43,036 Speaker 1: but even she was surprised by the frequency of these requests. 150 00:10:44,116 --> 00:10:46,996 Speaker 4: In Italy and Spain and even North Africa, I had 151 00:10:47,076 --> 00:10:48,916 Speaker 4: never seen anybody who wanted this. 152 00:10:50,356 --> 00:10:53,396 Speaker 1: Doris might have been taking her West End clients back 153 00:10:53,436 --> 00:10:57,276 Speaker 1: to the comparatively dingy Edgeware Road, but she was charging 154 00:10:57,356 --> 00:11:00,076 Speaker 1: them handsomely for the privilege. 155 00:11:00,316 --> 00:11:03,356 Speaker 6: She left a little book of names and telephone numbers 156 00:11:03,396 --> 00:11:05,956 Speaker 6: of the men that visited her. She used to get 157 00:11:05,996 --> 00:11:10,556 Speaker 6: good money for what she did. For instance, ten pounds 158 00:11:10,596 --> 00:11:12,596 Speaker 6: would not be exceptional for one meeting. 159 00:11:13,996 --> 00:11:15,196 Speaker 2: Compared to the wages of. 160 00:11:15,156 --> 00:11:19,036 Speaker 1: The Great Depression, ten pounds would be roughly equivalent to 161 00:11:19,196 --> 00:11:22,796 Speaker 1: two thousand dollars to day. That book of names and 162 00:11:22,836 --> 00:11:26,996 Speaker 1: telephone numbers was important too. Doris met her clients and 163 00:11:27,116 --> 00:11:30,636 Speaker 1: bars and restaurants, but she also liked to make appointments 164 00:11:30,756 --> 00:11:34,836 Speaker 1: over the telephone. The use of such technology was increasingly 165 00:11:34,876 --> 00:11:38,276 Speaker 1: common in sex work. More people had phone lines than 166 00:11:38,316 --> 00:11:42,156 Speaker 1: ever before, and crucially, they could make calls from within 167 00:11:42,236 --> 00:11:46,796 Speaker 1: the privacy of their own homes. Call girls even placed 168 00:11:46,836 --> 00:11:50,396 Speaker 1: carefully veiled adverts in the windows of convenience shops and 169 00:11:50,516 --> 00:11:54,556 Speaker 1: in newspapers, letting potential clients know how they might be reached. 170 00:11:59,196 --> 00:12:03,476 Speaker 5: In September nineteen thirty five, twenty nine year old Doris 171 00:12:03,516 --> 00:12:07,836 Speaker 5: met retired businessmen en Rie Joanna at a restaurant on 172 00:12:07,876 --> 00:12:09,476 Speaker 5: the West ends, Oxford's. 173 00:12:09,676 --> 00:12:11,836 Speaker 3: Lovely to Meet You Pleasure is All Mine. 174 00:12:12,996 --> 00:12:16,996 Speaker 5: Henri had been married and divorced once before. The introduction 175 00:12:17,316 --> 00:12:19,556 Speaker 5: was made by a mutual friend. 176 00:12:20,116 --> 00:12:22,956 Speaker 3: It was love at first sight on both sides. 177 00:12:23,676 --> 00:12:27,836 Speaker 5: Also went the story. In reality, Henri had been one 178 00:12:27,836 --> 00:12:32,356 Speaker 5: of Doris's clients, visiting her rooms at two forty Edgeware Road. 179 00:12:33,916 --> 00:12:37,596 Speaker 5: Henrie was over thirty years older than Doris. He'd been 180 00:12:37,596 --> 00:12:39,876 Speaker 5: born in Paris, but had grown up in Britain, and 181 00:12:39,916 --> 00:12:43,276 Speaker 5: his sister and parents lived in London too. Even so, 182 00:12:43,836 --> 00:12:47,596 Speaker 5: he didn't hold British citizenship until nineteen oh seven, when 183 00:12:48,156 --> 00:12:51,116 Speaker 5: at the age of twenty six, he was naturalized. 184 00:12:51,916 --> 00:12:54,596 Speaker 3: I Henri Alfred Juane, to swear that I will be 185 00:12:54,636 --> 00:12:57,836 Speaker 3: faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty the King Edward, 186 00:12:57,956 --> 00:12:59,556 Speaker 3: his heirs and successes. 187 00:12:59,756 --> 00:13:03,076 Speaker 5: Historian doctor Ginger Frost says the decision to pledge this 188 00:13:03,196 --> 00:13:07,116 Speaker 5: loyalty to the Crown and become legally British might have 189 00:13:07,156 --> 00:13:08,996 Speaker 5: been a response to a new law. 190 00:13:09,516 --> 00:13:11,556 Speaker 8: The British passed an act in nineteen oh five called 191 00:13:11,556 --> 00:13:15,636 Speaker 8: the Aliens Act, which forced those who were not British 192 00:13:15,676 --> 00:13:19,716 Speaker 8: citizens to register and you had to check in if 193 00:13:19,756 --> 00:13:23,276 Speaker 8: you changed your address or anything like that, and if 194 00:13:23,316 --> 00:13:26,316 Speaker 8: you committed a crime or gott committing a crime as 195 00:13:26,356 --> 00:13:28,516 Speaker 8: an alien, you could be deported. That were so determined 196 00:13:28,516 --> 00:13:30,156 Speaker 8: to get rid of anybody who was problematic, they would 197 00:13:30,196 --> 00:13:34,436 Speaker 8: even deport paupers. So if you landed on the workhouse 198 00:13:34,956 --> 00:13:37,436 Speaker 8: and you were an alien, they would consider deporting you. 199 00:13:38,116 --> 00:13:41,516 Speaker 5: It seemed unlikely that Henri would end up in the workhouse. 200 00:13:41,916 --> 00:13:45,716 Speaker 5: He'd enjoyed a career as a successful businessman and lived 201 00:13:45,716 --> 00:13:50,276 Speaker 5: in the sumptuous districts of Kensington and Mayfair, but becoming 202 00:13:50,316 --> 00:13:53,596 Speaker 5: British would have made life simpler for him, and a 203 00:13:53,596 --> 00:13:57,676 Speaker 5: few years later, in nineteen thirteen, Henri had a brush 204 00:13:57,756 --> 00:14:00,476 Speaker 5: with the law that might have made him feel relieved 205 00:14:00,676 --> 00:14:01,756 Speaker 5: to now be a citizen. 206 00:14:07,756 --> 00:14:11,516 Speaker 1: The motor cars zoomed along the country lane. A panic 207 00:14:11,636 --> 00:14:14,636 Speaker 1: cyclist who had never seen or heard such a vehicle 208 00:14:14,636 --> 00:14:18,156 Speaker 1: in his life. Feared he would be crushed, and he 209 00:14:18,276 --> 00:14:19,636 Speaker 1: drove into the hedge at the. 210 00:14:19,676 --> 00:14:23,716 Speaker 5: Roadside loading I'm lovely. 211 00:14:23,516 --> 00:14:28,316 Speaker 1: How Police Constable Russell watched as the car hurtled into 212 00:14:28,356 --> 00:14:32,036 Speaker 1: the distance. He noted that the automobile was going too 213 00:14:32,036 --> 00:14:35,236 Speaker 1: fast for anyone to stop it. It was proceeding at 214 00:14:35,276 --> 00:14:39,556 Speaker 1: a furious rate of perhaps thirty miles an hour. The 215 00:14:39,596 --> 00:14:43,036 Speaker 1: frightened cyclist picked himself out of the thicket and dusted 216 00:14:43,076 --> 00:14:49,316 Speaker 1: himself down. Constable Russell went to talk to him. All 217 00:14:49,476 --> 00:14:53,076 Speaker 1: rise the men inside the vehicle were tracked down and 218 00:14:53,156 --> 00:14:54,876 Speaker 1: summoned to the local police court. 219 00:14:56,596 --> 00:15:00,316 Speaker 2: Alfred Sutherland chauffeur for driving a motor car at a 220 00:15:00,396 --> 00:15:04,996 Speaker 2: dangerous speed, Enri Jouanne for a similar offense and aiding 221 00:15:05,036 --> 00:15:06,316 Speaker 2: an abetting Sutherland. 222 00:15:07,276 --> 00:15:10,516 Speaker 1: But the prosecution had a problem. It couldn't be sure 223 00:15:10,716 --> 00:15:13,716 Speaker 1: who had been at the wheel. Henri and his chauffeur 224 00:15:13,876 --> 00:15:16,916 Speaker 1: said they'd been taking it in turns to drive. If 225 00:15:16,956 --> 00:15:20,596 Speaker 1: Sutherland could not be convicted, then Honri could not be 226 00:15:20,636 --> 00:15:25,276 Speaker 1: guilty of aiding and abetting him. Eventually, the bench levee 227 00:15:25,356 --> 00:15:28,876 Speaker 1: define of five pounds on the defendants and Henri was 228 00:15:28,876 --> 00:15:31,956 Speaker 1: free to go on his way. His display of hutzbur 229 00:15:32,116 --> 00:15:35,996 Speaker 1: had won out. That Henri owned a car in the 230 00:15:36,156 --> 00:15:39,796 Speaker 1: very early days of private automobiles suggests that he was 231 00:15:39,836 --> 00:15:43,636 Speaker 1: an adventurous man of some means. Indeed, he had an 232 00:15:43,636 --> 00:15:47,076 Speaker 1: eclectic portfolio of enterprises and was in business with his 233 00:15:47,196 --> 00:15:50,356 Speaker 1: sister in law at a luxury dress shop in Mayfair, 234 00:15:50,796 --> 00:15:54,916 Speaker 1: said to be patronized by the leading lights of English society. 235 00:15:55,596 --> 00:15:59,356 Speaker 4: Monsieur and Mademoiselle Joune will be present each afternoon to 236 00:15:59,436 --> 00:16:03,316 Speaker 4: advise clients on the latest phases of Paris London styles. 237 00:16:04,436 --> 00:16:07,836 Speaker 5: Henri went on to own the Grand Hotel at Conquarnaut 238 00:16:07,916 --> 00:16:11,116 Speaker 5: on the coast of Brittanys, and after he sold this 239 00:16:11,196 --> 00:16:14,956 Speaker 5: business he was able to retire and live off his investments. 240 00:16:15,916 --> 00:16:18,316 Speaker 5: When he fell in love with Doris in the autumn 241 00:16:18,356 --> 00:16:22,236 Speaker 5: of nineteen thirty five, he'd been a gentleman of leisure 242 00:16:22,436 --> 00:16:26,636 Speaker 5: for some years. Though Henri was content to buy sex 243 00:16:26,676 --> 00:16:30,956 Speaker 5: from Doris, such women were not to be considered marriage material, 244 00:16:31,596 --> 00:16:34,236 Speaker 5: and so when he asked her to be his wife, 245 00:16:34,676 --> 00:16:38,756 Speaker 5: additional terms were laid on top of the standard marriage contract. 246 00:16:40,076 --> 00:16:42,716 Speaker 3: When I married my wife, it was agreed that she 247 00:16:42,756 --> 00:16:48,116 Speaker 3: should cease her mode of life and regain her respectability. 248 00:16:49,676 --> 00:16:53,076 Speaker 5: Doris enjoyed her work, so she must have felt she 249 00:16:53,116 --> 00:16:56,956 Speaker 5: had something to gain by submitting to this. She seems 250 00:16:56,956 --> 00:16:59,516 Speaker 5: to have been drawn to the comfort and security of 251 00:16:59,516 --> 00:17:03,516 Speaker 5: Henri's lifestyle. Perhaps too, she felt that she might be 252 00:17:03,556 --> 00:17:07,356 Speaker 5: able to circumvent their agreement and have things her way. 253 00:17:08,356 --> 00:17:10,796 Speaker 5: Within a couple of months of meeting, they'd wed by 254 00:17:10,916 --> 00:17:15,676 Speaker 5: license at Paddington Register Office. On their marriage certificate, fifty 255 00:17:15,796 --> 00:17:21,396 Speaker 5: nine year old Henrie made himself forty five. Doris subtracted 256 00:17:21,396 --> 00:17:24,916 Speaker 5: two years from her own age, and also invented a father, 257 00:17:25,356 --> 00:17:30,156 Speaker 5: one who was squarely a respectable professional man, John Robson, 258 00:17:30,316 --> 00:17:35,036 Speaker 5: she claimed was a medical practitioner. A proud advert placed 259 00:17:35,036 --> 00:17:38,836 Speaker 5: in the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail announced to those back 260 00:17:38,836 --> 00:17:42,836 Speaker 5: home that little Doris Robson, the daughter of an unwed mother, 261 00:17:43,436 --> 00:17:49,196 Speaker 5: was now missus Chouannet, as if to underline the dangers 262 00:17:49,236 --> 00:17:52,156 Speaker 5: of the profession she was leaving. On the day that 263 00:17:52,276 --> 00:17:56,636 Speaker 5: Doris married on Rihe a woman called Josephine Martin, thought 264 00:17:56,676 --> 00:18:00,316 Speaker 5: to be Russian born but known as French Fifi, was 265 00:18:00,356 --> 00:18:03,996 Speaker 5: found strangled in the Soho flat where she worked. A 266 00:18:03,996 --> 00:18:09,036 Speaker 5: silk stocking tied about her neck. The police who'd arrested 267 00:18:09,156 --> 00:18:13,356 Speaker 5: French Feefee many times on prostitution charges, thought that a 268 00:18:13,436 --> 00:18:20,076 Speaker 5: client was likely responsible, but her murder remained unsolved. If 269 00:18:20,076 --> 00:18:23,796 Speaker 5: Henri had read any of the many columnaches of newsprint 270 00:18:23,876 --> 00:18:27,796 Speaker 5: devoted to the killing, he no doubt reassured himself that 271 00:18:27,836 --> 00:18:30,996 Speaker 5: the life he was providing for his new bride would 272 00:18:31,036 --> 00:18:38,556 Speaker 5: surely keep her safe from such a grim fate. Bad women. 273 00:18:38,676 --> 00:18:41,876 Speaker 5: The blackout Ripper will be back after this short break. 274 00:18:52,516 --> 00:18:56,716 Speaker 5: Henrie and Doris lived at fourteen Backhurst Street, part of 275 00:18:56,756 --> 00:18:59,636 Speaker 5: an affluent estate of squares and crescents at the edge 276 00:18:59,636 --> 00:19:04,396 Speaker 5: of Hyde Park. Henri gave his wife sentimental gifts, not 277 00:19:04,476 --> 00:19:09,156 Speaker 5: necessarily luxury items, but objects with a story, like a 278 00:19:09,276 --> 00:19:12,716 Speaker 5: distinctive white metal wristwatch he'd purchased years ago from a 279 00:19:12,796 --> 00:19:16,396 Speaker 5: jeweler in France. The face had no hands and showed 280 00:19:16,436 --> 00:19:19,276 Speaker 5: only the hours and the minutes. It was a source 281 00:19:19,316 --> 00:19:20,436 Speaker 5: of mirth for the couple. 282 00:19:21,396 --> 00:19:23,996 Speaker 3: I could not tell the time very well with it. 283 00:19:24,836 --> 00:19:28,116 Speaker 5: Henri believed that Doris was keeping her word and had 284 00:19:28,196 --> 00:19:29,316 Speaker 5: left the sex trade. 285 00:19:29,756 --> 00:19:32,596 Speaker 3: My wife behaved herself, and I had no reason to 286 00:19:32,636 --> 00:19:34,516 Speaker 3: think she was consulting with other men. 287 00:19:35,236 --> 00:19:39,756 Speaker 5: But Curiously, Doris's friend Peggy said that they continued to 288 00:19:39,836 --> 00:19:43,356 Speaker 5: rent workspace together and that Olga kept in touch with 289 00:19:43,396 --> 00:19:44,436 Speaker 5: her regular clients. 290 00:19:45,276 --> 00:19:48,956 Speaker 6: A particular friend of hers was an elderly man who 291 00:19:48,996 --> 00:19:55,236 Speaker 6: lived at Kensington. Whenever she moved, she always told him. 292 00:19:54,716 --> 00:19:58,396 Speaker 5: Was Doris, continuing to work, but keeping in a secret 293 00:19:58,436 --> 00:20:03,436 Speaker 5: from Henrie. The couples sometimes decamped to hotels on Britain's 294 00:20:03,436 --> 00:20:07,996 Speaker 5: south coast, so if Doris had occasionally stayed behind in London, 295 00:20:08,516 --> 00:20:11,396 Speaker 5: she might to have had the odd opportunity here and there 296 00:20:11,676 --> 00:20:12,276 Speaker 5: to see men. 297 00:20:16,956 --> 00:20:20,356 Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty eight, Henri's mother passed away and he 298 00:20:20,436 --> 00:20:24,636 Speaker 1: inherited money from her estate. He seemingly could not resist 299 00:20:24,716 --> 00:20:29,356 Speaker 1: returning to his old entrepreneurial ways. Henri and Doris purchased 300 00:20:29,356 --> 00:20:32,876 Speaker 1: a cafe called Anne Wynn in the charming seaside town 301 00:20:32,956 --> 00:20:37,676 Speaker 1: of Eastbourne, but the venture was ill fated. By October 302 00:20:37,916 --> 00:20:42,036 Speaker 1: it had failed, and the cafes fixtures and fittings, mahogany 303 00:20:42,116 --> 00:20:46,476 Speaker 1: tables and chairs, the cash till, the cutting edge electric mixer, 304 00:20:46,956 --> 00:20:50,876 Speaker 1: a frigidare ice cream maker, and even its extensive stocks 305 00:20:50,876 --> 00:20:54,996 Speaker 1: of jams, syrups, flavorings and chocolate were sold at auction. 306 00:20:56,516 --> 00:21:00,076 Speaker 1: Back in nineteen twelve, an employee of Henri's dress shop 307 00:21:00,156 --> 00:21:03,396 Speaker 1: had been charged with altering the accounts an attempt to 308 00:21:03,396 --> 00:21:07,036 Speaker 1: earn a quick buck by swindling the business. The collapse 309 00:21:07,076 --> 00:21:11,116 Speaker 1: of Anne Wynn likewise rang alarm bells for Henri, who 310 00:21:11,196 --> 00:21:14,636 Speaker 1: took both his landlord and the former owners of the cafe, 311 00:21:15,036 --> 00:21:19,316 Speaker 1: a Mister and Missus Sedgwick, to court. They had conspired 312 00:21:19,516 --> 00:21:22,076 Speaker 1: to sell him a white elephant. 313 00:21:22,596 --> 00:21:25,316 Speaker 2: A ruined business that was not worth the money he 314 00:21:25,436 --> 00:21:26,676 Speaker 2: paid for it, said. 315 00:21:26,476 --> 00:21:29,916 Speaker 1: A local paper. It turned out that the Sedgwicks were 316 00:21:29,956 --> 00:21:34,596 Speaker 1: in serious financial difficulty. They had debts all over Eastbourne, 317 00:21:34,916 --> 00:21:38,276 Speaker 1: and they defaulted on their rental payments too. They told 318 00:21:38,316 --> 00:21:41,556 Speaker 1: Henri that the cafe turned a reasonable profit, and now 319 00:21:41,596 --> 00:21:43,836 Speaker 1: he believed that these projections. 320 00:21:43,356 --> 00:21:46,636 Speaker 2: Were false and could only have been made dishonestly to 321 00:21:46,716 --> 00:21:49,516 Speaker 2: induce him to buy the business well. 322 00:21:49,596 --> 00:21:52,116 Speaker 9: Fraud is one of the big growth areas of the 323 00:21:52,116 --> 00:21:53,236 Speaker 9: twentieth century. 324 00:21:53,636 --> 00:21:56,516 Speaker 1: Doctor Mark Ruthouse is a historian at the University of 325 00:21:56,636 --> 00:22:00,716 Speaker 1: York and an expert in illegal markets, crime and criminal justice. 326 00:22:00,796 --> 00:22:02,756 Speaker 1: In the mid twentieth century. 327 00:22:02,516 --> 00:22:06,996 Speaker 9: As the economy becomes more complex, fraud becomes something that's 328 00:22:07,036 --> 00:22:09,916 Speaker 9: easier to do and pull off a county standards are 329 00:22:09,916 --> 00:22:14,396 Speaker 9: relatively low. In this particular case, you don't know whether 330 00:22:14,516 --> 00:22:17,516 Speaker 9: that business was already being used for a fraud, and 331 00:22:17,596 --> 00:22:20,196 Speaker 9: that's why the turnover may have been misstated. 332 00:22:20,556 --> 00:22:24,276 Speaker 1: Mark says that frauds are particular boom in the nineteen thirties. 333 00:22:24,716 --> 00:22:27,556 Speaker 1: People struggling to cope with the consequences of the Great 334 00:22:27,596 --> 00:22:31,676 Speaker 1: Depression cut corners to keep their businesses afloat, and they 335 00:22:31,756 --> 00:22:34,876 Speaker 1: orchestrated more cynical and elaborate schemes too. 336 00:22:35,556 --> 00:22:39,796 Speaker 9: The most popular types of fraud in the nineteen thirties 337 00:22:40,036 --> 00:22:43,676 Speaker 9: are long firm and short firm fraud. They're essentially a 338 00:22:43,716 --> 00:22:48,996 Speaker 9: type of theft. You place orders for goods with suppliers, 339 00:22:49,116 --> 00:22:52,196 Speaker 9: and in the short firm fraud, you place the order, 340 00:22:52,436 --> 00:22:55,356 Speaker 9: you flog the goods, but you never pay for the 341 00:22:55,716 --> 00:22:58,596 Speaker 9: goods that you ordered, and then you disappear. A long 342 00:22:58,676 --> 00:23:01,636 Speaker 9: firm fraud does the same thing, but builds up to 343 00:23:01,716 --> 00:23:04,196 Speaker 9: a bigger pay day. So what you do is you 344 00:23:04,316 --> 00:23:07,716 Speaker 9: create a business, you run it for several months in 345 00:23:07,756 --> 00:23:11,636 Speaker 9: which you buy stuff, you sell it, you pay your suppliers, 346 00:23:11,876 --> 00:23:14,956 Speaker 9: and you build up credit worthiness, and then you hit 347 00:23:15,036 --> 00:23:18,316 Speaker 9: them several months in for a huge order of which 348 00:23:18,356 --> 00:23:21,356 Speaker 9: you then never pay for. And this could be a 349 00:23:21,436 --> 00:23:24,436 Speaker 9: case where someone has used a business for a long 350 00:23:24,476 --> 00:23:26,996 Speaker 9: firm or a short firm fraud and then seen another 351 00:23:27,036 --> 00:23:29,756 Speaker 9: opportunity to make money from it by selling it on 352 00:23:30,036 --> 00:23:32,356 Speaker 9: to an unsuspecting customer. 353 00:23:33,556 --> 00:23:36,716 Speaker 1: The Sedgwicks argued that Henri had never asked to see 354 00:23:36,756 --> 00:23:41,276 Speaker 1: the cafe's accounts, which were now conveniently missing, and that moreover, 355 00:23:41,676 --> 00:23:44,876 Speaker 1: he was at fault for changing the character of Anne Win. 356 00:23:45,796 --> 00:23:48,876 Speaker 1: Once a traditional tea room, the cafe now had a 357 00:23:48,956 --> 00:23:53,636 Speaker 1: rowdy continental ambiance, with gaudy ornaments in the window and 358 00:23:53,836 --> 00:23:59,316 Speaker 1: loud carpets. Were still Henri uked his customers and was. 359 00:23:59,236 --> 00:24:03,716 Speaker 4: A perfect nuisance the whole time, according to Beatrice Sedgwick. 360 00:24:04,636 --> 00:24:08,316 Speaker 1: In the end, however, the jury sided with Henri and 361 00:24:08,356 --> 00:24:12,356 Speaker 1: found the defense Uden's guilty of fraud. They considered that 362 00:24:12,476 --> 00:24:15,076 Speaker 1: he was entitled to recover the money that he'd paid 363 00:24:15,116 --> 00:24:18,796 Speaker 1: out for the business, but whether Henri actually received any 364 00:24:18,796 --> 00:24:22,796 Speaker 1: compensation is not known. At the time of the court case, 365 00:24:23,116 --> 00:24:25,476 Speaker 1: he said that he'd lost all his capital in the 366 00:24:25,556 --> 00:24:32,796 Speaker 1: venture and was now practically penniless. 367 00:24:32,796 --> 00:24:36,716 Speaker 5: Henri and Doris stayed living in Eastbourne a little while longer, 368 00:24:37,276 --> 00:24:42,236 Speaker 5: and then in September nineteen thirty nine war arrived. Henri's 369 00:24:42,276 --> 00:24:45,676 Speaker 5: investments in France collapsed and he had to return to 370 00:24:45,756 --> 00:24:50,116 Speaker 5: work in the capital. It appears that the cafes failure, 371 00:24:50,476 --> 00:24:54,156 Speaker 5: the fraud case, and the loss of Henri's annuity had 372 00:24:54,196 --> 00:24:58,076 Speaker 5: taken a toll on the relationship. This was not the 373 00:24:58,156 --> 00:25:02,116 Speaker 5: life that Doris had envisaged, and she complained that Henri 374 00:25:02,436 --> 00:25:07,116 Speaker 5: was starting to get on her nerves as the blitz began. 375 00:25:07,716 --> 00:25:11,636 Speaker 5: Peggy Hemmings thought that Doris was especially afraid of the bombs, 376 00:25:12,436 --> 00:25:15,556 Speaker 5: after all, she'd known the trauma of coming under enemy 377 00:25:15,596 --> 00:25:19,556 Speaker 5: shelling as a child in Hartlepool, and so in the 378 00:25:19,596 --> 00:25:22,716 Speaker 5: autumn of nineteen forty the couple went to live with 379 00:25:22,836 --> 00:25:26,636 Speaker 5: Doris's mother and her aunt, now retired and residing in 380 00:25:26,676 --> 00:25:32,036 Speaker 5: the genteel Spa town of Harrogut, the popular. By spring 381 00:25:32,156 --> 00:25:35,516 Speaker 5: nineteen forty one, Henri, in need of money, took a 382 00:25:35,556 --> 00:25:39,676 Speaker 5: position as a manager at Odonino's Regent Street, the hotel 383 00:25:39,716 --> 00:25:43,836 Speaker 5: restaurant where Doris had once solicited, and humblingly the type 384 00:25:43,876 --> 00:25:46,956 Speaker 5: of venue that he had once frequented as a guest too. 385 00:25:49,076 --> 00:25:51,956 Speaker 5: Henri sent Doris an allowance in hopes that she would 386 00:25:51,956 --> 00:25:55,956 Speaker 5: stay behind in Harrogut. He meanwhile was living where he worked, 387 00:25:56,636 --> 00:26:00,156 Speaker 5: but his wife was unhappy with the arrangement and miss London. 388 00:26:00,796 --> 00:26:03,876 Speaker 5: Three weeks later she pitched up in the city again. 389 00:26:05,156 --> 00:26:08,316 Speaker 3: She told me she intended to stay in London and 390 00:26:08,476 --> 00:26:11,436 Speaker 3: had already booked a room in Sussex Gardens. 391 00:26:12,036 --> 00:26:16,236 Speaker 5: Henrie was not impressed. Sussex Gardens was close to their 392 00:26:16,276 --> 00:26:20,316 Speaker 5: former residence on Bathurst Street, but had also adjoined notorious 393 00:26:20,396 --> 00:26:25,556 Speaker 5: Hyde Park, ced Paddington and her Edgeware Road haunts. Doris 394 00:26:25,596 --> 00:26:29,596 Speaker 5: had friends here, but more importantly, would be well positioned 395 00:26:29,596 --> 00:26:33,236 Speaker 5: for selling sex. Many of her old clients had moved 396 00:26:33,236 --> 00:26:36,876 Speaker 5: out to the suburbs, but the nearby barracks were full 397 00:26:36,916 --> 00:26:38,796 Speaker 5: of soldiers looking for a good time. 398 00:26:40,036 --> 00:26:43,676 Speaker 3: I objected to this, and there was great friction between us. 399 00:26:44,356 --> 00:26:47,516 Speaker 3: I visited her at this room on several occasions, and 400 00:26:47,556 --> 00:26:50,996 Speaker 3: by the general atmosphere of the house, I came to 401 00:26:51,036 --> 00:26:54,076 Speaker 3: the conclusion that my wife was drifting back to her 402 00:26:54,196 --> 00:26:56,156 Speaker 3: old life. 403 00:26:56,196 --> 00:27:00,996 Speaker 5: Doris denied the charge, but she told local dressmaker Beatrice 404 00:27:01,076 --> 00:27:04,956 Speaker 5: Lang a different story. The women met and grew close. 405 00:27:05,076 --> 00:27:08,596 Speaker 5: After Doris returned to London, and they'd drink tea together 406 00:27:08,636 --> 00:27:12,516 Speaker 5: at beards Trius's lodgings on the Edgeware Road. Doris confided 407 00:27:12,556 --> 00:27:15,516 Speaker 5: to her new friend that she was eyeing a replacement 408 00:27:15,676 --> 00:27:17,076 Speaker 5: for Henrie. 409 00:27:17,676 --> 00:27:20,756 Speaker 4: The Captain, who was a regular client of hers, wanted 410 00:27:20,836 --> 00:27:23,036 Speaker 4: to take her off the streets. 411 00:27:22,996 --> 00:27:29,756 Speaker 5: And then one day, said Beatrice, Doris simply vanished. A 412 00:27:29,836 --> 00:27:33,116 Speaker 5: desperate Henri had obtained a new position at a hotel 413 00:27:33,236 --> 00:27:36,596 Speaker 5: in a market town south of London, and he'd taken 414 00:27:36,676 --> 00:27:40,916 Speaker 5: Doris with him. The next time Beatrice saw her friend 415 00:27:41,076 --> 00:27:45,436 Speaker 5: would be on a cold February night in nineteen forty two. 416 00:27:45,716 --> 00:27:52,396 Speaker 5: As it would turn out, Doris's final night Bad Women, 417 00:27:52,516 --> 00:27:55,316 Speaker 5: the Blackout Ripper will return shortly. 418 00:28:09,396 --> 00:28:12,836 Speaker 1: Nineteen forty one was nearing its end and Doris and 419 00:28:12,876 --> 00:28:18,996 Speaker 1: Henri's relationship was in crisis. Sixty five year old Henri's 420 00:28:19,036 --> 00:28:22,676 Speaker 1: health had broken down and he said that they no 421 00:28:22,716 --> 00:28:27,756 Speaker 1: longer slept together. He continued to be suspicious that Doris 422 00:28:27,796 --> 00:28:30,316 Speaker 1: had drifted back to ignominy. 423 00:28:30,556 --> 00:28:33,996 Speaker 3: I begged of her not to return to her old life. 424 00:28:35,036 --> 00:28:37,596 Speaker 1: The Jois now went to work at the Queen's Hotel 425 00:28:37,676 --> 00:28:42,836 Speaker 1: in Farnborough as joint manager and Managerress Doris doesn't appear 426 00:28:42,876 --> 00:28:46,196 Speaker 1: to have had any professional experience in the industry, but 427 00:28:46,276 --> 00:28:49,596 Speaker 1: Henre's vouching for her seems to have secured her the position. 428 00:28:50,436 --> 00:28:54,076 Speaker 1: Many hotels were completely transformed during the Second World War, 429 00:28:54,436 --> 00:28:59,916 Speaker 1: becoming barracks, headquarters, hospitals, or even rest in recuperation resorts 430 00:28:59,956 --> 00:29:04,116 Speaker 1: for war weary servicemen. Those that remained in private hands 431 00:29:04,236 --> 00:29:07,676 Speaker 1: were in demand. Because eating out was exempt from the 432 00:29:07,716 --> 00:29:12,236 Speaker 1: restrictions of rationing, luxury hotels served lavish meals of pre 433 00:29:12,316 --> 00:29:17,556 Speaker 1: war standards. The rich flock to these establishments, determined to 434 00:29:17,636 --> 00:29:21,076 Speaker 1: dine in the style to which they were accustomed. Some 435 00:29:21,476 --> 00:29:24,116 Speaker 1: even made such hotels their homes for the duration of 436 00:29:24,116 --> 00:29:28,236 Speaker 1: the war. The Queen's Hotel in Farnborough was a little 437 00:29:28,276 --> 00:29:32,476 Speaker 1: more staid in character, but it too saw change. Its 438 00:29:32,556 --> 00:29:37,276 Speaker 1: dining room was filled almost exclusively with service personnel who 439 00:29:37,356 --> 00:29:41,076 Speaker 1: lunched on piping hot cream of cauliflower soup served from 440 00:29:41,156 --> 00:29:45,956 Speaker 1: silver tureens, followed by spaghetti bolonnaise or boiled bacon o 441 00:29:46,036 --> 00:29:47,156 Speaker 1: l a Boston. 442 00:29:46,836 --> 00:29:50,876 Speaker 4: And as a choice of hot big pudding or cheese raft. 443 00:29:51,116 --> 00:29:55,476 Speaker 1: Henri and Doris earned decent salaries plus a bonus, and 444 00:29:55,516 --> 00:29:59,676 Speaker 1: they were provided with accommodation too, but this wasn't where 445 00:29:59,676 --> 00:30:03,196 Speaker 1: Doris wanted to be. By now thirty five years old, 446 00:30:03,556 --> 00:30:06,956 Speaker 1: she wasn't prepared to waste her time nor suffer fools, 447 00:30:07,356 --> 00:30:10,676 Speaker 1: and she clashed with the customers, so much so that 448 00:30:10,756 --> 00:30:15,596 Speaker 1: within a few months the couple had resigned, and so 449 00:30:15,916 --> 00:30:18,996 Speaker 1: the Choiais were on the move again and back to London. 450 00:30:19,876 --> 00:30:23,556 Speaker 1: Henri was appointed manager of the elegant Royal Court Hotel 451 00:30:23,596 --> 00:30:28,636 Speaker 1: in Kensington. They returned to Treelined Sussex Gardens, and this 452 00:30:28,796 --> 00:30:32,516 Speaker 1: time rented a ground floor apartment, one that must and 453 00:30:32,596 --> 00:30:36,076 Speaker 1: on Riea's eyes, have been more respectable than the dingy 454 00:30:36,156 --> 00:30:40,556 Speaker 1: room Doris had previously leased. They moved in on January 455 00:30:40,596 --> 00:30:46,516 Speaker 1: twenty sixth, nineteen forty two. Their new flat was modest 456 00:30:46,556 --> 00:30:50,756 Speaker 1: in size, but well furnished, with parquet flooring and central heating. 457 00:30:51,476 --> 00:30:55,316 Speaker 1: The bedroom was simple, pink blankets on twin beds, a 458 00:30:55,316 --> 00:30:58,676 Speaker 1: plaid rug on the floor, and a dressing table where 459 00:30:58,716 --> 00:31:01,996 Speaker 1: Doris sat and brushed her hair with her green comb 460 00:31:02,156 --> 00:31:06,676 Speaker 1: missing some teeth, or wrote her correspondence. Her favorite fountain 461 00:31:06,716 --> 00:31:12,596 Speaker 1: pen was inscribed with the initials d J. Although the 462 00:31:12,676 --> 00:31:17,116 Speaker 1: apartment was rented in Henri's name. He did not sleep there. Instead, 463 00:31:17,196 --> 00:31:19,476 Speaker 1: he had a bed at work, but he would return 464 00:31:19,516 --> 00:31:22,836 Speaker 1: to Sussex Gardens each evening to dine with his wife. 465 00:31:23,396 --> 00:31:26,956 Speaker 1: They quickly settled into a routine. Henri would arrive at 466 00:31:26,996 --> 00:31:28,076 Speaker 1: around seven p m. 467 00:31:28,436 --> 00:31:30,276 Speaker 3: How was your day, dear, and they would. 468 00:31:30,076 --> 00:31:32,676 Speaker 1: Eat their supper and spend a couple of hours together, 469 00:31:33,396 --> 00:31:36,916 Speaker 1: and then around nine thirty p m. He would head 470 00:31:36,956 --> 00:31:37,996 Speaker 1: back to the hotel. 471 00:31:41,076 --> 00:31:45,036 Speaker 5: And so it was on the evening of Thursday, February twelfth, 472 00:31:45,116 --> 00:31:50,276 Speaker 5: nineteen forty two, Doris had prepared some vegetable soup, which 473 00:31:50,276 --> 00:31:52,676 Speaker 5: they ate in their dining room. When it was time 474 00:31:52,716 --> 00:31:55,716 Speaker 5: for Henri to leave again, she expressed a desire to 475 00:31:55,716 --> 00:31:58,516 Speaker 5: get some fresh air, so she piled the dirty dishes 476 00:31:58,556 --> 00:32:01,156 Speaker 5: in the sink and accompanied him round the corner to 477 00:32:01,196 --> 00:32:04,516 Speaker 5: Paddington Tube Station, where they said that good bys, and 478 00:32:04,596 --> 00:32:08,236 Speaker 5: he hopped on the train to work. According to Henri, 479 00:32:08,676 --> 00:32:13,196 Speaker 5: he ed to hurry home. Doris promised she would, but 480 00:32:13,756 --> 00:32:17,356 Speaker 5: she had other ideas. She turned and headed towards the 481 00:32:17,476 --> 00:32:20,836 Speaker 5: Edgeware Road. A striking figure in a dark clothed and 482 00:32:20,916 --> 00:32:25,036 Speaker 5: squirrel fur coat, black turban hat and heavy kid gloves. 483 00:32:25,756 --> 00:32:27,996 Speaker 5: She might have hoped to pick up a client, but 484 00:32:28,276 --> 00:32:31,916 Speaker 5: instead she crossed paths with her dear friend Beatrice Lang. 485 00:32:32,996 --> 00:32:36,436 Speaker 5: Apparently Doris had just seen a policeman talking to a 486 00:32:36,476 --> 00:32:39,596 Speaker 5: young girl for She warned Beatrice that the officer would 487 00:32:39,716 --> 00:32:43,036 Speaker 5: likely be highly suspicious of a woman wandering these streets 488 00:32:43,076 --> 00:32:43,836 Speaker 5: alone at night. 489 00:32:44,236 --> 00:32:47,356 Speaker 6: Don't go up there, you might get in trouble. 490 00:32:47,156 --> 00:32:52,836 Speaker 5: She said, And so the pair continued on together, stopping 491 00:32:52,876 --> 00:32:55,116 Speaker 5: at the Cumberland Hotel for a quick drink. 492 00:32:55,556 --> 00:32:58,076 Speaker 7: I'll have another whiskey with a dasher soda please. 493 00:32:59,876 --> 00:33:03,996 Speaker 5: As they drank, Doris hinted at the state of her marriage. 494 00:33:04,036 --> 00:33:06,996 Speaker 5: She referred to Henri not as her husband an equal, 495 00:33:07,716 --> 00:33:11,356 Speaker 5: but as an old man Anne who kept her and 496 00:33:11,396 --> 00:33:15,956 Speaker 5: who increasingly grated on her too. The women did not 497 00:33:16,196 --> 00:33:20,796 Speaker 5: linger at the Cumberland, and soon Doris was headed back 498 00:33:20,836 --> 00:33:26,996 Speaker 5: towards her home Illo Stranger. On the way, she bumped 499 00:33:26,996 --> 00:33:30,436 Speaker 5: into two local women who also solicited in the area, 500 00:33:30,756 --> 00:33:34,716 Speaker 5: and they chatted for a while, remarking on the terrible cold. 501 00:33:35,756 --> 00:33:38,396 Speaker 5: Ruby Grant asked if Doris was going to call it 502 00:33:38,436 --> 00:33:43,476 Speaker 5: at night, and she remembered Doris's parting words to her, I'm. 503 00:33:43,316 --> 00:33:46,636 Speaker 6: Going to try and get off before I get home. 504 00:33:48,436 --> 00:33:52,516 Speaker 5: It was around ten thirty pm. Few people were about 505 00:33:52,996 --> 00:33:57,036 Speaker 5: and the streets were quiet. Ruby watched Doris as she 506 00:33:57,116 --> 00:34:01,756 Speaker 5: headed in the direction of Sussex Gardens and disappeared into 507 00:34:01,796 --> 00:34:13,996 Speaker 5: the darkness. When Enri arrived home from work the following evening, 508 00:34:14,516 --> 00:34:19,196 Speaker 5: he found the flat empty and oddly still. The morning's 509 00:34:19,196 --> 00:34:23,916 Speaker 5: milk delivery was still on the front doorstep. Inside, it 510 00:34:24,036 --> 00:34:29,436 Speaker 5: was dark, Doris. He called into the gloom, no reply. 511 00:34:31,396 --> 00:34:33,796 Speaker 5: Clicking on the lamp in the dining room, he felt 512 00:34:33,956 --> 00:34:38,956 Speaker 5: a chill of alarm. Lights spilled over the table, illuminating 513 00:34:38,996 --> 00:34:41,956 Speaker 5: a milk shrug and some biscuits, the remnants of the 514 00:34:41,996 --> 00:34:47,796 Speaker 5: previous evening's meal, just as they had left them. Apprehensive, 515 00:34:48,476 --> 00:34:52,476 Speaker 5: Enrie moved along the passage to the bedroom. The door 516 00:34:52,556 --> 00:34:54,556 Speaker 5: was locked and the key was missing. 517 00:34:56,156 --> 00:35:03,676 Speaker 3: Does Doris are you in there? Doris? 518 00:35:04,676 --> 00:35:05,636 Speaker 6: Are you in there? 519 00:35:07,916 --> 00:35:13,076 Speaker 5: All was quiet and still. In the kitchen too, were 520 00:35:13,076 --> 00:35:16,636 Speaker 5: the ghostly traces of a shared life, halted in its tracks. 521 00:35:17,516 --> 00:35:21,796 Speaker 5: Two soup bowls, two spoons, two cups, all piled up, 522 00:35:22,396 --> 00:35:30,036 Speaker 5: all unwashed. Something was terribly wrong. Henri rang for his neighbor, 523 00:35:30,876 --> 00:35:34,196 Speaker 5: missus Kirby. The housekeeper opened the door to a man 524 00:35:34,276 --> 00:35:40,076 Speaker 5: who ordinarily dignified and upright, was now fearful and agitated. 525 00:35:40,236 --> 00:35:42,116 Speaker 3: Have you seen my wife? 526 00:35:42,356 --> 00:35:46,716 Speaker 5: The housekeeper hadn't seen her all day, and she'd also 527 00:35:46,796 --> 00:35:49,396 Speaker 5: noticed that the shutters in the front room had remained 528 00:35:49,436 --> 00:35:53,356 Speaker 5: closed together. They tried different keys to the bedroom door, 529 00:35:54,036 --> 00:35:58,636 Speaker 5: but to no avail. Eventually, missus Kirby telephoned the police. 530 00:35:59,316 --> 00:36:03,676 Speaker 5: Henree stood on the doorstep, a forlorn figure, awaiting their arrival. 531 00:36:05,716 --> 00:36:08,516 Speaker 5: When the officers broke down the door to the bedroom, 532 00:36:08,916 --> 00:36:12,996 Speaker 5: they blocked Henrie from entering after them. Doris lay diagonally 533 00:36:13,076 --> 00:36:16,556 Speaker 5: across the bed, the sheets around her stained with blood. 534 00:36:17,276 --> 00:36:22,676 Speaker 5: She'd been stabbed and slashed and strangled, and knotted into 535 00:36:22,716 --> 00:36:28,996 Speaker 5: a ligature around her neck was a silk stocking. Henri 536 00:36:29,396 --> 00:36:34,116 Speaker 5: was heartbroken. In his pain, maybe even in guilt, he 537 00:36:34,236 --> 00:36:38,116 Speaker 5: eulogized their union. The papers that rolled up the presses 538 00:36:38,196 --> 00:36:44,236 Speaker 5: spoke not of Doris's dissatisfaction, but instead of an ideal marriage. 539 00:36:44,876 --> 00:36:49,716 Speaker 3: We were perfectly happy and have never had a disagreement. 540 00:36:49,636 --> 00:36:56,676 Speaker 5: Henri told them. In the Sussex Gardens, flat detectives hunted 541 00:36:56,716 --> 00:36:59,596 Speaker 5: for fingerprints and other clues to build a case against 542 00:36:59,596 --> 00:37:06,636 Speaker 5: their prime suspect, leading aircraftmen. Gordon Cummings officers took an inventory, 543 00:37:07,436 --> 00:37:11,356 Speaker 5: money and personal effects. That white metal wristwatch, the one 544 00:37:11,356 --> 00:37:14,516 Speaker 5: that was hard to read, were missing from the Joane's home. 545 00:37:15,876 --> 00:37:19,476 Speaker 5: A light dust had settled on Doris's dressing table. In 546 00:37:19,556 --> 00:37:23,116 Speaker 5: that coating of gray were silhouette outlines where once had 547 00:37:23,156 --> 00:37:26,756 Speaker 5: been her green comb with its missing teeth, and her writing. 548 00:37:26,836 --> 00:37:34,036 Speaker 5: Set At an Arif barracks not so very far away, 549 00:37:34,716 --> 00:37:38,956 Speaker 5: a blue woolf tunic was waiting to be found. In 550 00:37:38,996 --> 00:37:42,116 Speaker 5: one of its pockets was an elegant and well loved 551 00:37:42,116 --> 00:37:44,676 Speaker 5: fountain pen bearing the initials d. 552 00:37:45,396 --> 00:37:59,596 Speaker 1: J Bad Women. The Black Outripper is hosted by me 553 00:37:59,836 --> 00:38:03,436 Speaker 1: Halle Rubinholt and me Alice Finds. It was written and 554 00:38:03,476 --> 00:38:06,756 Speaker 1: produced by Alice Fines and Ryan Dilley, with additional support 555 00:38:06,796 --> 00:38:08,996 Speaker 1: from Courtney Guarino and Arthur Gomberts. 556 00:38:09,636 --> 00:38:10,356 Speaker 2: Kate Healy of. 557 00:38:10,396 --> 00:38:13,476 Speaker 1: Oakwood Family Trees aided us with genealogical research. 558 00:38:14,116 --> 00:38:17,276 Speaker 5: Pascal Wise Sound designed and mixed the show and composed 559 00:38:17,316 --> 00:38:21,396 Speaker 5: all the original music. The show was recorded at Wardoor 560 00:38:21,396 --> 00:38:24,996 Speaker 5: Studios by David Smith and Tom Berry. You also heard 561 00:38:24,996 --> 00:38:28,836 Speaker 5: the voice talents of Ben Crowe, David Glover, Melanie Guttridge, 562 00:38:29,076 --> 00:38:32,836 Speaker 5: Stella Harford, Jemma Saunders and rufus Wright. Much of the 563 00:38:32,916 --> 00:38:36,316 Speaker 5: music you had was performed by Ed Gockan, Ross Hughes, 564 00:38:36,516 --> 00:38:39,836 Speaker 5: Christian Miller and Marcus Penrose. They were recorded by Nick 565 00:38:39,876 --> 00:38:44,556 Speaker 5: Taylor Porcupine Studios. Pushkin's Ben Holiday mixed the tracks and. 566 00:38:44,556 --> 00:38:48,716 Speaker 1: You heard additional piano playing by the great Berry Wise 567 00:38:49,356 --> 00:38:52,796 Speaker 1: Hi Berry. 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