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Speaker 1: Please be advised the following episode contains scenes of an

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Speaker 1: extremely graphic nature that may be distressing for some listeners.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Unexplained with Me Richard McClane Smith, Season three,

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Speaker 1: episode twelve, The Square, Part two. Although the disturbing Dear

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Speaker 1: Boss letter, as it will come to be known, was

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Speaker 1: received at the Central News Agency on September twenty seventh,

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Speaker 1: it is a further two days before it is passed

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Speaker 1: on to the police, who swiftly dismiss it as a hoax.

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Speaker 1: Later that evening, back in the Whitechapel district of East London,

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Speaker 1: p C. Lewis Robinson is patrolling Aldgate High Street when

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Speaker 1: he sees a crowd of people gathered around something on

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Speaker 1: the ground. Drawing near, he realizes it is a woman

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Speaker 1: sprawled out on the pavement drunk. PC Robinson pulls her

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Speaker 1: up and implores her to stand, but as soon as

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Speaker 1: he lets her go, she slumps against the wall and

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Speaker 1: slides down slowly back to the ground. Half an hour later,

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Speaker 1: with the help of a colleague, Robinson takes the woman

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Speaker 1: to Bishopsgate Police station and places her in a cell

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Speaker 1: for the evening. When they ask her name, she tells

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Speaker 1: them only it is nothing. Minutes later, she is fast asleep.

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Speaker 1: It has just gone midnight when station jailer George Hutt

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Speaker 1: here's the unknown woman, singing softly from her cell. When

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Speaker 1: Hut insists that she remained there until she is able

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Speaker 1: to take care of herself. Outside, a storm is brewing

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Speaker 1: above the streets of Whitechapel shortly before one am, As

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Speaker 1: a heavy rain starts to fall, local resident Israel Schwartz

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Speaker 1: turns into Berner Street, just south of Whitechapel Road. Up ahead,

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Speaker 1: he notices a couple standing outside the entranceway to Dutfield's Yard,

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Speaker 1: overlooked by the International working Men's Educational Club next door.

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Speaker 1: He is standing in front of a woman who he

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Speaker 1: tries to pull into the street, but she resists. Enraged,

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Speaker 1: he throws her onto the pavement and she lets out

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Speaker 1: three short screams. Schwartz, who had seen the whole incident,

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Speaker 1: responds by crossing the road and walking away. Hearing the

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Speaker 1: now following him. He breaks into a run, making a

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Speaker 1: the cells. Deciding the unknown woman is now sober enough

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Speaker 1: return for her giving him her name. She replies it

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Speaker 1: is Mary Anne Kelly, though in truth it is Kate Edos.

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Speaker 1: The forty six year old Edos was originally from Wolverhampton

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Speaker 1: Edos and Kelly had been forced to pawn a pair

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Speaker 1: of Kelly's boots to afford their last meal. I should

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Speaker 1: get a damn fine hiding when I get home, says

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Speaker 1: Edo's as she leaves the police station and steps into

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Speaker 1: the night. Good Night. Old cock Hut watches as she

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Speaker 1: twenty six year old Lewis Deemschutz, an educated immigrant from

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Speaker 1: Policeman arriving soon after, waste little time in corralling all

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Speaker 1: walking swiftly through the streets of the East End, moving

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Speaker 1: Just after one thirty three, men stepping out at the

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Speaker 1: Bishopsgate Police Station, spot the man with the gray cloth

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Speaker 1: Edward Watkins, walking his usual beat, steps into the darkness

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Speaker 1: of Mita Square and shines his light into it, angling

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Speaker 1: Edoes had been disembowed, while her uterus and a kidney

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Speaker 1: had also been completely removed. Both her eyelids had been

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Speaker 1: cut through and the right ear partially amputated. As had

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Speaker 1: been predicted in the Dear Boss letter. An incision had

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Speaker 1: Some have suggested the triangular cuts were reminiscent of compass

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Speaker 1: legs or the set square of Freemason symbolism. Curiously, part

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Speaker 1: of Edoz's apron, which she wore over her dress, had

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Speaker 1: walking down Gholston Street, only five minutes from Miter Square,

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Speaker 1: he realizes it is covered in blood. Moving the torch

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Speaker 1: the men that will not be blamed for nothing. Long

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Speaker 1: Police and prominent freemason, is woken up with news of

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Speaker 1: two further possible victims of the apparent East London serial killer. Strangely, however,

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Speaker 1: rather than head directly to the crime scenes, he heads

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Speaker 1: instead to the doorway on Ghulston Street. After taking a

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Speaker 1: while to analyze the peculiar message, he orders it immediately

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Speaker 1: to be scrubbed off. Shortly after, he has led to

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Speaker 1: the scene of the Knight's first murder, where five separate

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Speaker 1: witnesses tell him the victim had been holding a bunch

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Speaker 1: arrives at the offices of the Central News Agency, reading,

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Speaker 1: I was not kidding, dear old boss when I gave

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Speaker 1: you the tip you'll hear about Saucy Jackie's work to morrow.

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Speaker 1: Double event. This time number one squealed a bit, couldn't

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Speaker 1: Unexplained Podcast. The following day, an inquest is held for

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Speaker 1: the woman murdered in Dutfield's yard. She is identified as

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Speaker 1: forty four year old Elizabeth Stride born Elizabeth Gustaf'sdotter. She

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Speaker 1: and married John Stride three years later. The pair successfully

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Speaker 1: It was on September twenty fifth, eighteen eighty eight, she

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Speaker 1: left their home for good, vowing never to go back.

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Speaker 1: Five days later she was dead. At the inquest, Thomas Bates,

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Speaker 1: cleaner woman had never lived. What wasn't mentioned At the inquest, however,

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Speaker 1: which was presided over by lawyer and also prominent freemason

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Speaker 1: Wind Baxter, were the grapes that had been seen in

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Speaker 1: Stride's hand by five different witnesses. It was an admission

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Speaker 1: made all the more intriguing since only two doors down

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Speaker 1: was a greengrocer's which coincidentally sold grapes. With the possibility

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Speaker 1: or more likely whomever had given them to her, there

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Speaker 1: was a good chance he had seen the killer. Strangely,

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Speaker 1: for some reason, the police seemed little interested in this

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Speaker 1: line of inquiry. Two days later, however, an extraordinary story

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Speaker 1: as published in the London Evening News. The article owes

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Speaker 1: much to the work of two private detectives, who, having

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Speaker 1: decided to conduct their own investigations into the crimes, took

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Speaker 1: the trouble to interview the greengrocer on Berner Street. What

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Speaker 1: he told them was startling. As it turned out, the shopkeeper,

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Speaker 1: Matthew Packer, had indeed sold a man and a woman

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Speaker 1: a bunch of black grapes at eleven forty five pm

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Speaker 1: he was absolutely convinced that the woman in question was

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Stride. He described the man as being quite well

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