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hey weirdos I'm Elina I'm Ash and this is [Music] morbid it's morbid and it's 20
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25 it's 2025 yeah it's been 2025 for like a I think yeah like a last couple episodes maybe like you know we don't
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know I was going to say it's a trend I have no idea yeah where we are you know what I'm you know where I'm I'm at where
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are you at do do you know where I'm at I'm in a bad place oh no I'm in a bad bad place what place is this it's the
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place of I don't have any more of my frosted sugar cookie holiday creamer I am also in that place so I commiserate
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that creamer from International Delight International Delight if you're listening please send us help me get to
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a good place because they're gone they're gone they're absolutely gone and do you know what happened to me the
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other day actually oh I have a feeling I know what happened to you because it might have happened to me as well why I
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ought to I ordered two on door Dash and I gave a nice little tip and everything and I said if not available just refund
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me cuz I don't want some other [ __ ] no they didn't want to refund me so the Dasher brought me two random ass [ __ ]
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creamers which like they were International Delight and actually I shouldn't complain because one of them
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is like Italian sweet cream oh I love this sweet cream that one's really good that one's really good so I'm not super
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mad but anyways International Delight please send me a whole entire stock of the frosted sugar cookie creamer and I
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second that please show that that requires it please I've only had one bottle of it cuz that's the only bottle
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I've been able to find this season me too and it's making me upset and you know we got to shoot our shot here
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that's the thing we got to shoot it um you miss 100% of the shots that you don't take Wayne Gretzky Michael Scott
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there you go I just offed it I did just realize that this is going to come out after the holidays and maybe it won't be
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available at all no they still have it I'm sure they do okay I believe you what do they do with it I trust you then they
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have the recipe yeah give me in I don't even care if it's in that fancy bottle you can just send it to me in a jug in a
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jug please in a vat if you would send it to me in a barrel just pleas just place
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and a keg if you will send me a cow that makes that and I'll milk him send me a keg of the frosted sugar cookie I would
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what I would Keg Stand that I would do a keg stand on that that's horrifying one
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thing I never did is a keg stand me neither yeah I mean every I know I was going to say is that
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shocky um I used to but and I didn't do that um yeah anyways I just really want that my life is hard without it today I
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did the my life is hard my life is hard without it I did I did this sweet cream today and I I made it through it's only
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like 2 o' we're really proud of you thanks we're everybody keep Ash in your thought it's hard thank you she's using
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sweet cream instead of frosted sugar keep me in your thoughts what am I going to do thoughts and
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prayers thank you those are useful so to get to gain some much needed perspective we're going to shift
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we're going to shift into something that's honestly going to shock you I believe everyone listening
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um the case that I am covering today I so I'm going to be covering the blackout Ripper oh I haven't heard of this one uh
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his name is Gordon cumins and that's so unassuming yeah just Gordon I just always think of Gordon Ramsey yeah he's
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very Assuming he's pretty assuming but he's just an idiot sandwich yeah he's definitely assuming uh but this guy I
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knew I had heard of this case but I didn't know the details and when I looked further into it I was like whoa
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so he this happened after Jack the Ripper okay also happened um over in Europe though and many rippers in Europe
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many rippers we have a few over here too but these ones are rough and the thing is I'm I'm I hesitate to say any any
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Ripper is worse than the other because they're all [ __ ] terrible that's why they are literally called rippers um but
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the thing with the blackout Ripper that we're going to cover today this is going
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to be a two-parter by the way because it's a lot but he is like with Jack the R er sorry I'm like everywhere my
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thoughts are all over the place it's cuz you didn't have the right coffee I didn't that's very true so Jack the
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Ripper was pretty methodical about the way he went about things seemed like he had almost like a plan when he went in
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to each murder he did it quick he did it relatively you know I clean isn't the word but like very quick and smooth um
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he also did his mutilation postmortem for the most part um really the only one that you can point to is
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Mary Kelly at the end that was like frenzied and out of control and totally off the map which some people even
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wonder if it's obviously we went into that if that's all connected and all that but we won't go into that but the
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blackout Ripper Gordon cumins he do he's a mutilator that's why he's called the Ripper yeah but he is like sadistic
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because his mutilation is not not done postmortem okay it seems like he enjoys hurting women and he enjoys hurting
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women when they can feel it like torturing them yeah he mutilates and tortures while they are alive and it's
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so well I hesitate to say he is worse because obviously it is all awful yeah he's different he's a different brand
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he's a different level of Ripper I would say he's it's very upsetting I'm giving
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you a trigger warning up front this is very graphic and there is a lot of really [ __ ] up gruesome things that
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he does to his victims so please be aware of that okay good news is though they caught him that's good he's not a
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Jack the Ripper he's a Gordon he's a Gordon he got caught he's Gordon the idiot so let's take it back shall we
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let's take it back back back we're going back into you know when German bombing raids were happening during World War II
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that's far back taking it back um we're in the 30s late 30s early 40s uh so in response to the onset of German bombing
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raids during World War II a lot of England's most vulnerable citizens were evacuated and temporarily they you know
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they were taken out of like the urban areas to be safer in the more rural parts of the country because it was
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really really dangerous time and very unprecedented and very like unpredictable time but those who stayed
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in the cities would spend years enduring blackouts so scary and these were periods where the city was intentionally
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plunged Into Darkness to prevent German bombers from easily identifying urban areas to bomb that's so sad that they
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even had to do that to avoid being bombed oh and it's a that in of itself is an awful awful thing if you research
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into these blackouts horrific and they were s they were a huge inconvenience and obviously like tough to deal with in
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a myriad of ways but they were also a safety risk for everybody but for at least one person they offered the
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perfect opportunity to enact what was clearly his darkest fantasies this man clearly had been thinking about this you
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don't just go and do this and he didn't have a criminal record wow so he went straight he must have been thinking
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about this for a long time and this gave him the opportunity so with the German AR Army
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invaded Poland in September 1939 like we said countries all over Europe were forced to take a position and develop a
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strategy just in case they were drawn into the conflict in England where attacks from Germany were kind of
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everybody was just waiting for it it it was imminent essentially the war secretary just quickly mobilized the
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British arm for armed forces and began evacuating 1.5 million citizens wow those citizens
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were mostly like women children the elderly the most vulnerable like I said taking them out of the Cities bringing
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them to the countryside that's where they were going to be safer but these would end up being super traumatic for a
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lot of people because they ended up being relocated to the homes of strangers often and they also wouldn't
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know what happened to the people that they left behind oh my God I can't imagine like fathers you know Brothers
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all like husbands all kinds of people yeah um and that was for like many years they dealt with this under those
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circumstances when the bombs began falling a few months later many of these people chose to just return home instead
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of being separated from their families and just dealt with the the chaos that was about to ensue now in addition to
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the relocation of honestly the most vulnerable people in the nation the government also implemented those
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widespread nightly blackouts it was every night wow during this time all lights electric or natural were to be
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extinguished oh my God that must straight up Blackness so scary I don't think any of us can truly
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appreciate how dark would be that was happening here because we are no matter what there's lights around us at all
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times always it's like when we covered Jack the Ripper we talked about how I don't think people take into account how
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Wild it is that he did what he did with such Precision in that darkness in how dark it was there wasn't Street lamps
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there weren't they were he was doing this by the light of a small flame up in a corner right like that's insane and
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then here there's no light whatsoever it is a black that you can't even conceive
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of oh God and that just adds to the to the feeling the over feeling God because it takes away all your senses it it
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totally like it puts you in a place of like just complete vulnerability in every way imag like there are so many
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people who have genuine like people say oh I'm scared of the dark but there are people who have literal phobias of the
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dark can you imagine having to deal with that I don't think I I feel like it would make me crazy yeah I feel not
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having any kind of like perception of what was around you that's what would scare me the most that would [ __ ] you up
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and though and it's not like this was something you could just like not do because if you violated this blackout
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you were going to be subject to fines of various amounts and it was as simple as
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like lighting a map would get you a fine and these people could afford this stuff and they could
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afford to be thrown in jail and also you don't want to be the person who [ __ ] it
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up [ __ ] it up exactly and like puts everybody in danger yeah and obviously this like you said like you don't want
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to be the one to [ __ ] this up because what they were doing was trying to stay hidden from German bombers identifying
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them as targets during Air Raids but while it was like strategically made sense for the time because like what
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else are they going to do M it had obviously added risks with it it's like yeah you were safe from Air Raids you're
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not safe from each other right and that's a problem in the first month alone traffic deaths doubled and by the
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by January 1942 one in five people had sustained some form of injury from the blackouts one in five people now as all
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this chaos was unfolding the question that came about was what do we do with the nation's countless prisoners that
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are now yeah unlike the free British citizens who could evacuate or hide during an air raid people in prison and
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youth detention centers were just sitting targets it's like what do you do you just let them be S not all of them are
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in there for like killing people you know what I mean like it's like this is some petty crimes are there right and
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it's like they're just sitting there waiting to be bombed now so in response the government implemented a policy
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where any inmate with less than three months left on their sentence and boys who completed at least six months of
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their sentence would be released that's a little bit scary you understand why that happened but that's definitely a
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little scary well the result was a massive massive uptick in criminal activity at a time when law enforcement
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was already overworked and their attention was understandably in many other places so during this period
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police relied on support from civilian volunteers who were instrumental in coordin coordinating air raid precaution
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efforts and could could be identified now like these volunteer uh citizens they could be identified by their
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helmets and air raid precautions armband so you could know who you could trust quote unquote but unfortunately as
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people are going to do they're going to people so petty criminals quickly realized those armbands gave the wearer
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considerable power and according to an article by Duncan Campbell criminals began to Kit themselves out with an ARP
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warden's helmet and armband and St smash their way into shops when no one was looking so they just started using it
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it's like Ted Bundy carrying around a police badge exactly under the circumstances law enforcement and the
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public had to make distinctions between what was and what wasn't Behavior worth Prosecuting because they can't go after
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everybody know in simple terms stealing a blanket from a shop would ordinarily be considered theft but during wartime
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most people would probably agree with you that stealing a blanket from a shop to cover a body in the street was
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probably not criminal Behavior yeah fair enough things were lines were being blurred which makes it very scary now in
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Wartime England looting and shoplifting alone were such huge massive problems that the court set aside two days each
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week just to prosecute those charge for those crimes wow but they were not the only crimes that were clogging up the
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courts the less scrupulous business owners for example were known to exploit the rationing of wartime Goods by
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selling additional products at like crazy over like price gouging essentially and even some doctors were
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more than happy to disqualify a young man from military service just for a few extra bucks yeah so everybody's suddenly
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tilting in the wrong direction on the moral scale here with the British justice system just so bogged down with
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additional crime and a dramatic increase in public need other crimes were kind of
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ignored like sex work for example was a a big crime back then considered a big crime and it flourished during the
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wartime years in part because it was obviously like way less important of like who is it really like what are we
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doing here you know and but also because these women provided what some were arguing a was a valuable service to the
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military men yeah so what are you you going to prosecute them like just let everybody there's a lot of way worse
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[ __ ] happening in here in London's padil circus for example the so-called Picadilly Commandos as the area sex
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workers were known catered to thousands of young men about to ship off the front
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line to the front lines all of which went largely ignored by the police they just let it Happ you know they're going
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off to war you might as well whatever with that said The Lax attitudes around sex work at the time and law enforcement
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turning a blind eye to the whole thing allowed for at least one man to quickly and easily find victims with who he
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could get very close to very easily and act out his murderous fantasies that he had very clearly been having for a long
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time yeah so it's like it's it's a double-edged sword for real definitely now given the tensions and frustrations
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being felt across Brit Britain in those days murder seemed like an inevitable thing that was going to happen in fact
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within just two weeks of the announ announcements of the nightly blackouts the report of the first murder came in
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from Edinburgh on September 15th 1939 and this victim in this case 52-year-old Isabella Ralph had no fixed address and
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did make her living sometimes doing sex work okay now in the case of Isabella Ralph the Press reported the death and
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gave like a brief overview of the circumstances that was really it just quick little mention you know with
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cities being ripped apart by German Air Raids and families being separated by evacuations and displacement it seemed
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like everyone just kind of moved on from this murder of this woman this you know
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like nomadic woman in Scotland right fortunately Edinburgh police got lucky and a few days later they arrested John
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Henry Connell a 24-year-old brick layer that was living in Edinburgh damn 24 yeah upon being arrested Connell told
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police he'd taken a room at a boarding house and the next day he realized that he had some money that was stolen so he
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confronted Isabella Ralph with whom he'd had relations relations with the previous evening okay and he managed to
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retrieve his stolen money but in the process of this whole thing the two got physically aggressive with each other
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they started struggling and he said he grabbed her throat in order to stop her from screaming and oops he killed her I
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think we all know by now how long it takes to manually strangle someone uhhuh so that's [ __ ] y uh you you don't
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just go oh oh I tried to make her stop screen is so crazy I held it there for like you know many many minutes like at
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the very least it's 3 minutes right at least like four I think it is yeah and it's and it's consistent pressure too
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it's like if you let off even for a second it starts the clock again yeah now at trial connell's lawyer claimed
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his client had never intended to kill Isabella and he had only wanted to get his stolen money back despite the
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evidence showing that several of um Isabella Ralph's ribs had been crushed in the process indicating a very much
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higher degree of violence than he was talking about the judge accepted the Lesser plea of cul homicide and
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sentenced Connell to 3 years of penal Ser servitude wow in handing down this sentence Lord Justice clerk told him I
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am satisfied that the result of your conduct was the very last thing you anticipated but you took This Woman's
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life through violence which you inflicted upon her so he's like I'm confident that you didn't mean to kill
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her but you did essentially okay now the murder of Isabella Ralph which was definitely a violent homicide like yes
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good try illustrates two important things about the press and the judicial system's understanding of murder at the
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time especially of the lower class persuasion during this time period first regardless of the brutality or
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Sensational nature of the crime page space was limited and editorial and journalistic priorities were given to
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coverage of the war at the time so they were just not going to focus on this and
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second the justice system particularly the resources of the police and the court system had very limited band with
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and were eager to process what they considered lesser crimes as quickly and with as little attention as possible
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Right these two realities are definitely going to be an important factor and why
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there was relatively little coverage of what would end up being a serial killer operating in London during these
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blackouts especially when you consider the obvious comparisons to none other than England's most notorious and
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mysterious killer Jack the Ripper there's a very obvious like they're you can compare them yeah definitely and
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it's like it shows you how [ __ ] Bonkers it was at the time that they're not talking about like a Jack the Ripper
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2.0 a second Jack the Ripper essentially is kind of going unnoticed and not really talked about it's like that
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should have been liter like Jack the Ripper at the time was all anyone was talking about yeah literally all they
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were talking about all the Press was talking about anybody on the street and this one which is essentially the same
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like Mo but somehow more sadistic it's not even being talked about it's very interesting and you and I have been
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talking about it lately how certain social climates will just desensitize people to the worst things yeah they
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just and they just it wasn't being reported on now by the winter of 1942 the war had been dragging on for
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more than a year and violence had honestly for the residents of London had just become a normal thing they just
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dealt with it every day violence violence violence still even the most hardened of londoners would have been
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absolutely shocked by the first discovery this discovery was made by plumbers William Baldwin and Harold bat
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Elder on their way to work on the morning of February 9th 1942 so as the two men passed through
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montigue place in Mary laone I looked this up Mary labone that morning they noticed what looked to be a broken
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flashlight laying in the snow just out of one of outside of one of these like um they're like basically handmade Air
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Raids shelters okay if you look it up you it's like a little kind of a half circle like you know like a half sphere
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kind of made with no it's kind of made with like a like a tin almost oh with like a little opening so you can scoot
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in and hide essentially next to it they found a woman's green wool turban style hat some
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matches and some oval te tablets then as they got closer to it they saw what looked like the pale leg of what they
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believed was a mannequin sticking out of the doorway of the shelter never a mannequin Harold bachelder ran to the
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nearest phone and called the police and PC John Miles arrived a short time later
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they discovered this was a human body because initially they thought it was a mannequin but they were like let's call
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it in cuz there just in case with all like the the objects that clearly belong to a woman this we're not going to check
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ourselves so upon seeing this woman's body miles knew was not an accidental death yeah um so he called for
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additional officers and he secured the scene now as far as the officers at the scene could tell the woman in the air
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raid shelter had been brutalized by her attacker her face and neck were badly bruised her clothes were torn her skirt
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had been pulled up to her thighs and she had been violently sexually assaulted oh
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the following day the pathologist sir Bernard spillsbury I love this Bernard sir Bernard spillsbury that's a very
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important name it is an important name uh he concluded his postmortem examination and he reported that aside
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from the bruising on her face and neck there were quote a small a number of small abrasions to her upper including a
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small amount of abrasions to her exposed right breast oh uh the cause of death was listed as manual strangulation okay
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uh she ended up being the least brutalized of all of his victims if you can believe it just to give you a heads
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up for what's to come at the scene there was very little forensic evidence to work with
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investigators theorized that that her body which had been discovered quote with her legs wide open in the doorway
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of the shelter oh had been deliberately posed to humiliate her corpse yeah later
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that day PC miles found the victim's purse a short distance away on the sidewalk someone had clearly gone
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through it and taken whatever money and valuable BS were inside as well as her ID card okay the only blood found on the
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victim was her own but the bruising on her neck and fingerprints found at the scene suggested that she'd been killed
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by a left-handed person ah interesting that they could figure that out back in the 30s isn't that interesting a few
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days later the victim was identified as Evelyn Hamilton a 41-year-old pharmacist
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from Essex the outbreak of the war had all but bankrupted the pharmacy where Evelyn was working and on the night of
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her death she had been passing through London on her way to Grimsby where she was going to start a new job at a
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different Pharmacy so she was just going to her job right detectives learned that
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Hamilton had been staying at a loc local woman's hostel that evening and was last
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seen at the Lion's Corner House where she had dinner and a drink but unfortunately no one at the Lion's
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Corner remembered whether she was joined by a man that evening so they couldn't really determin whether she'd been lured
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to the shelter or simply attacked on her way back from the hospital or the hostel detectives had only just begun
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investigating the Hamilton murder when a report of a similar murder was reported
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on February 10th this is just the next day right that morning two meter readers from the electric company were doing
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their rounds you know just going from rooming house to rooming house and they were like they were trying to go into
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one place in a rooming house on W Warder Street in SoHo so the men knocked on the
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door of 34-year-old Evan oley's room and they got no reply the manager was like no she's home like I know this I saw her
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like she hasn't left so the manager was like you know what did you try the door and they were like well no we can't just
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like walk into people's houses so we didn't and he was like no I know she's home I'm just going to like see if I can
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open and yell for her yeah so he jiggled the door and it was unlocked so he kind
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of like opened it a little kind of yelled her name didn't get an answer and he was like I know she's home like what
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the [ __ ] she wouldn't leave this unlocked so they ended up going inside and as they entered the apartment they
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found Evelyn lying face up on her bed they later they later said they believe she had a red scarf around her neck but
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found out it was just that her neck had been violently slashed open wow yeah the
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men ran into the street to find the nearest police officer and returned with inspector John Hennessy in his report
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filed later that day Hennessy described what he saw when he entered the apartment this is rough I flashed my
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torch and saw a woman believed to be Evelyn Oatley on her back on a DI van or single bed in a transverse position we
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looked it up in a Dian I didn't know what that was no Mei it apparently like a Shaz Lounge essentially uh her head
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was pointing North and was hanging down over down the side of the bed she was naked except for a slender garment which
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covered her breasts I saw that her throat had been cut and a hand torch was wedged in her private parts a tin can
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opener was lying near the torch and her legs were wide apart oh my God it gets worse additional investigators arrived
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at the house soon after the discovery and were shocked by the brutality of this murder uh superintendent Fred
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Cheryl said she was a ghastly sight she had been the victim of a sadistic attack
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of the most horrible and revolting kind yeah now superintendent Fred Cheryl is um kind of like a fingerprint expert as
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well oh wow so he was like really big in this case and even he couldn't uh he was
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the one that determined that they were probably leftand this person was probably left-handed and tried to run
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these fingerprints alongside like known offenders and couldn't find a match anywhere he's the one that determined
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person wasn't known uh things that had been used in this murder and on Evelyn uh were razor
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blade a can opener parts of a broken mirror a flashlight and curling tongs oh wow yeah it's literally
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Unthinkable rage and sism in this case that's why I was saying that he's there's a different element
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here than there was in Jack the Ripper case yeah not there's per se but there but it's a different level for sure
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curling tongs yeah there it's it's sadism and it what it it appears to be that the Killer is taking a lot of time
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to torture and inflict pain and mutilations on these victims while they are alive yeah like the Hamilton murder
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there was very little evidence found at the scene and no one could think of any reason that someone would kill Oley at
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the time of her death Evelyn was married but had been living apart from her husband Harold for some time while she
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pursued an acting career in London according to Harold Oley Evelyn was quote fascinated with West End life and
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would not leave it but while it was true that she was hoping to make her way in the theater she had worked at a
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nightclub for a little while but while her husband was away she had been supporting herself as a full-time sex
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worker since 1939 the last time anyone had seen her was when she was with a darkhaired
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Airman the night before this darkhaired Airman had approached her somebody said okay and according to this really cool
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YouTuber who he's fascinating his channel he's called well I never well and he's just this British man who will
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tell you all about these amazing things and horrifying things love it um apparently her friends and this like
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really well break your heart when he said it her friends later said she had turned to sex work you know obviously
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for income while her husband was away but also because she was afraid of sleeping in her apartment alone because
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of the blackouts so like she just wanted that's so sad she was just lonely and scared
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it's like really sad according to the medical examiner Evelyn Oley had been quote beaten and strangled to
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unconsciousness and then suffered extensive sexually motil motivated mutilations inflicted by the killer
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using a safety razor curling tongs a corner fragment of a broken mirror and the tin can
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opener yeah Evelyn's cause of death was the 5 and 1/2 inch wound on her neck that severed her kateed artery which was
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believed to have been inflicted with the 2-in razor blade right now among the evidence that was found in the room were
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unidentified fingerprints on the fragment of the broken mirror and the tin can opener and they again indicated
00:30:54
that the killer was left-handed so we're relating these two cases even though they were very different but yeah you
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know otherwise it looked like there was you know obviously a huge struggle but that there was also only one thing
00:31:09
missing and this it was like um a silver cigarette case oh that was in her purse
00:31:14
just a trophy but her bank books and her money were still there now that makes me
00:31:20
think that in the first case the Hamilton murder they said they found her purse close by but on the sidewalk and
00:31:26
that I think somebody passing that I just stole her [ __ ] possibly yeah I don't even know if he did he maybe took
00:31:31
her identification but I don't know if he took her money my thought was that possibly he like chased her somehow and
00:31:36
she dropped her purse along the way and then like you said somebody else did her
00:31:40
stuff I think someone else probably did I do wonder if like obviously there's such an escalation here if he didn't do
00:31:46
everything that he did to his second victim to his first victim because it was a little bit more like in this case
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he's in an apartment tued away he has all the time in the world yeah and he doesn't it doesn't look like he brings
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these things with him yeah it looks like he finds them where he is and he available at the so I think he just
00:32:06
didn't have anything available to him I think if he did it probably would have been the exact same thing yeah but it
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was outside yeah what's even worse is a neighbor told police later that a little
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after midnight the night before they had heard a radio turn suddenly turn up really loud from that apartment enough
00:32:24
that they could hear it through the walls we always say how much we hate that F hate that he literally was doing
00:32:29
it to drown out her screams now on February 12th a sex worker named Catherine M nearly lost her life to this
00:32:37
man but oh God she got away yes apparently a very Nic looking cleancut man approached her while she was
00:32:43
soliciting on Regent Street and she agreed to work with him once they were at her apartment and the whole thing
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began he got on top of her and attacked her immediately he dug his knees as hard
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as he could into her abdomen and started trying to strangle her her manually but
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she fought back hard and apparently she still had her boots on and she kicked him as hard as she could off of her and
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ran the [ __ ] out of there to her neighbors completely nuded oh he ran after her and threw money at her
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claiming he was drunk and he didn't mean to and then he ran away yeah sure but he
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left something behind what did he left a belt behind a royal Air Force belt specifically [ __ ] in that Air
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Force and remember the night before Evelyn had been seen being approached by a nice cleancut darkhaired air Forceman
00:33:36
isn't it so scary how like somebody can look so unassuming and even charming and
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then they're this and then they're this they're this scary yeah now he went right on
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that evening to kill again after this what he would consider a failure but that victim would not be discovered
00:33:56
until February 13th so we're going to get there but I'm trying to go in order of the discoveries while making the like
00:34:03
maintaining the timeline okay cuz I want you to get the idea of how bloodthirsty
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this [ __ ] really was like he barely went a day sometimes even hours between murders it was like a spree and when one
00:34:14
failed he would immediately find another woman to kill so he does go right to another one but she is not found for a
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couple of days okay so the police and press had honestly barely begun to even process Evelyn Oley scene when a report
00:34:28
of yet another body came in not 24 hours later on the afternoon of the 13th 15-year-old and it's not her who died uh
00:34:36
15-year-old Barbara low went to visit her mother Margaret at her apartment in North Soho oh it's her mom though yeah
00:34:43
when Barbara's knocks didn't get an answer she asked a neighbor if they'd seen her mother Margaret but the
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neighbor was like you know what I haven't seen her in a couple of days and there is a package that's been sitting
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on the step for a couple of days so it was not her 's character to go away without saying anything or to like just
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abandon her in any way so Barbara called the police who dispatched an officer to
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the apartment they used a spare key and were able to get inside but when they went inside DS Leonard blacktop was very
00:35:13
surprised to see that the blackout curtains were still drawn and everything was completely dark and he was like are
00:35:18
you sure she's in here and he fled he switched on his flashlight and started making his way through the place and in
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the kitchen he saw a woman's purse was laying on the floor and everything in the purse was strewn across the floor
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okay so finally he reached the last door in the apartment which was Margaret's bedroom the door was locked but Barbara
00:35:37
gave the detective permission to force the door open so they could get inside fortunately he was able to stop Barbara
00:35:44
from coming into the room which spared her a lot of horror uh Margaret Low's body was on the bed
00:35:52
completely nude and hav probably been there for at least a day or two her face and head were brutally beaten uh and
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beaten with what the detective assumed was the fireplace poker that lay in two pieces on the floor beside her it
00:36:09
broke a fireplace poker those things are usually like rot iron later the autopsy
00:36:16
would show that her jaw had been Shattered by the blows one of her stockings had been tied tightly around
00:36:22
her neck and knotted it had dug into her skin Oh and her body had been badly badly
00:36:29
mutilated um with among other things a razor a potato peeler and a kit and a table knife and and this is horrifying
00:36:42
not that everything else hasn't been there was a large serrated bread knife protruding from a wound near her groin
00:36:50
and a wax candle had been inserted into her vagina yeah everybody is literally in this room
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in a state of absolute shock it's that when I tell you that I was not ready for this case to be as brutal as it is I had
00:37:08
no idea I don't know if we've heard anything that brutal back to back the fact that this has gone largely kind of
00:37:17
like under the radar even now yeah like I've said we're going to cover the blackout Ripper to a couple people and
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they're like oh what's that I've literally never heard of this you had never heard of it nobody had ever heard
00:37:27
of it oh my God and this is what it is a potato peeler that I couldn't move that's the thing somehow that I was
00:37:34
focused on but then he's using just kitchen items oh God like he's just using what is around this is Brut which
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is even more [ __ ] up that this man is coming in he knows he can strangle them to death so he's not worried about he he
00:37:48
doesn't seem to be worried about like the end result he knows he can probably get the end result but he's just coming
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in there being like I'll just use what's around like potato peeler razor [ __ ] candle I can't even begin
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you would do with brok mirr to somebody like oh my God yeah that poor poor woman think God
00:38:14
her daughter didn't see that that's the thing that's the thing I don't know how you would ever go on no even just
00:38:20
hearing what had happened to her mother to like oh my God like how do you even I'm speechless right now
00:38:27
that's the other thing 15 in the middle of the war like motherless yeah and her mom had been like you know just trying
00:38:36
to make and like just trying to and keep her in boarding school too like pay to keep her in boarding school oh because
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so fingerprints were found in the apartment and again left-handed so they're connecting it now y but that
00:38:49
wasn't and and obviously she had some commonalities with the other victims but until the early 1930s Margaret and her
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husband had had been relatively wealthy living off an income from the dry goods store and boarding house that they had
00:39:02
owned together but her husband died in 1932 and the income quickly went away and Margaret found herself desperate to
00:39:10
support herself and her daughter so she turned to sex work this was not and again she was her daughter was going to
00:39:17
boarding school and she wanted to keep her in boarding school so she did this keep her daughter where she was safest
00:39:23
yeah now this was not the first time that she'd relied on sex work for income but and but she was kind of hoping to
00:39:30
have left it behind when she met her husband and like started a family yeah and she did until he died right which is
00:39:37
really just like you feel so bad cuz like you know she didn't want to no now the similarities between the victims
00:39:43
weren't lost on The Press um one reporter wrote The Three West End murders have all been discovered within
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an area of just over one square mile as each woman was strangled the possibility
00:39:54
that all three were the victims of the same person cannot be ruled out there were of course other details about the
00:40:00
cases that the Press hadn't made even been aware of at the time and it probably would have only strengthened
00:40:06
their belief that the women were victims of the same man but there was really not
00:40:11
a lot of time to consider all the connections between the cases because another victim was discovered just hours
00:40:17
after Margaret Low's body had been found my God I can't imagine the police just going from scene to scene like this just
00:40:24
one after the other after the other yeah and that's where we're going to end part
00:40:29
one just because I think there's a lot in here and it's very heavy seriously um but this is I mean luckily you know he
00:40:38
gets caught that's the he will get caught it's shocking when he's caught because he's he's not like he's he's not
00:40:47
a walking monster on the outside he's obviously like yeah good-looking enough to have Charmed these women normal
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looking enough and normal seeming enough to batting an eye and he's in the Air Force like he had to have passed some
00:41:01
kind of well I don't know how that worked back then actually I don't either I know now you have to pass so many
00:41:06
tests to be cleared to be part of the military I think you still needed to pass you certain test so it's like say
00:41:11
so he passed some of those tests and it's like geez Louise it's just the Jack the Ripper case is so
00:41:19
brutal and like so vicious and like it's shocking when you go through a bit by bid and find out the injuries to these
00:41:26
women and then like this is just like cuz you can't you can't help but compare the two because they're in the same you
00:41:33
know relative you know corner of the world sure not like you know too far away in time from each other same victim
00:41:42
same kind of victim profile it's the same F almost like frenzy when it comes to like how quickly and how many victims
00:41:49
he was ranking up here right but it's like there's just like so you he has to be such an e evil [ __ ] yeah like he has
00:41:59
just be such an evil to use a potato peeler on somebody to stab somebody with a bread knife I mean to kill anybody
00:42:07
obviously but the length that he's going to and like you know assaulting sexually
00:42:12
assaulting them with these objects and yeah oh my God it's I think this is definitely up there with some of the
00:42:21
most brutal cases that you have covered I agree I was shocked I am shocked right
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now I think it's good that we're ending here for part one cuz I think oh damn should we bring back pallet cleansers I
00:42:33
know seriously I think everybody needs a quick pallet cleanser so go listen to the rewatcher for that yeah and part two
00:42:39
there's there's more he's not done so part two is not you know just the arrest and all that it's he's not done right
00:42:47
and he's as brutal I'm very excited to hear the part where he gets caught and sentenced to so many years in prison I
00:42:54
hope all the years all the years hope he's still there yeah well [ __ ] yeah okay well thanks for listening and we
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hope you keep it weird oh but not so weird um that this I'm so shocked that I can't actually
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even speak right now she like am I supposed to say something not that weird no not that weird never that we don't
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have to tell you that no you know [Music] [Music]