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Speaker 1: It's a bad habit we have we tell the tale

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Speaker 1: of the murderer and not the murdered. The clock on

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Speaker 1: White Chapel Church was striking half past two when Ellen

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Speaker 1: Holland watched her friend Polly Nicholls sway off into the darkness.

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Speaker 1: Polly was drunk, penniless, and broken. She was inconsequential in

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Speaker 1: the minds of most people she met, But she was

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Speaker 1: about to cross paths was some one who would give

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Speaker 1: her a grisly, unenviable place in history. In the autumn

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Speaker 1: of eighteen eighty eight, Polly and four other women were

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Speaker 1: brutally killed in a slum neighborhood of London. Their unsolved

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Speaker 1: murders were so violent, so cruel, that their killer earned

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Speaker 1: a nickname that is still known the world over. I'm

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Speaker 1: down on halls and are sha'n't quick ripping them? Jack

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Speaker 1: the Ripper? But in the greatest cold case in history,

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Speaker 1: few of us have stopped to question the basic facts.

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Speaker 1: One fact that you know about chr. Ripper that he

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Speaker 1: never got caught and who did he kill? Prostitutes? I'm

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Speaker 1: Hallie rubbin Hold as a historian interested in the stories

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Speaker 1: of women, I'd assume the lives of the five victims

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Speaker 1: had been thoroughly researched long ago. I was wrong when

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Speaker 1: I dug into the records. I began to reveal rich

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Speaker 1: and interesting lives. Most of the time women leave if

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Speaker 1: they're being beaten to a pulp or he put out

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Speaker 1: an eye, lives blighted by problems and prejudices. Most women

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Speaker 1: today would recognize. There wasn't a great deal of sympathy

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Speaker 1: for alcoholics, so one had to sign a temperance pledge

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Speaker 1: saying I will not drink. If only it were so simple.

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Speaker 1: I identified with the women, sympathized with the tough life

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Speaker 1: choices they made, and admired their determination. She gets on

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Speaker 1: the boat and comes to England. She seeks why the horizons.

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Speaker 1: I came to know them and like them. She wants

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Speaker 1: more than she's been born into. But I also discovered

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Speaker 1: something else, something new, something troubling. It was just so

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Speaker 1: obvious to me the very first time I looked at

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Speaker 1: this file. How could we have gotten this this wrong

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Speaker 1: for this many years? And something that chips away at

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Speaker 1: the foundations of the ripper myth nam shure, all of

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Speaker 1: you here today, do you know that Jack's victims were ladies?

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Speaker 1: Of the night, weren't they They were forced to choose

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Speaker 1: the myth still served up by tour guides to visitors

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Speaker 1: who flocked the murder scenes each evening. And now, ladies,

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Speaker 1: you might be thinking, well, I'd never think that work ever,

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Speaker 1: but didn't Okay, Well, certainly the answer is yes, Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine,

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Speaker 1: and Mary Jane were not killed while selling sex. It

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Speaker 1: was other, no less troubling factors that put them in

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Speaker 1: the path of their murderer. In this podcast, I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you how I know that and why it still matters

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Speaker 1: very much even today. Kelly has upset the world of

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Speaker 1: rippology by her general attitude towards ripparologists. I'll also explain

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Speaker 1: why my research has enraged so many people who claimed

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Speaker 1: to be experts in the Ripper case. The attacks have

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Speaker 1: just been relentless and malicious, But actually I think they

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Speaker 1: just don't really want other people talking about the murdered

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Speaker 1: women and challenging their views in any way. If you

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Speaker 1: want to know how we got the Ripper story so wrong,

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Speaker 1: what those mistakes tell us about ourselves, and why putting

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Speaker 1: the record straight makes some people so very me angry,

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Speaker 1: join me. Hallie rubin Hold for bad women. The Ripper

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