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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and this is [Music] morbid what is up my guys I can't stop
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doing that if you don't follow the Grinch on Tik Tok I don't know what's wrong with you if Tik Tok even exists
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anymore oh God yeah it's I don't know where we are in the future but it might be a future without Tik Tok we have to
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record these in advance if we want time off families we'll never stop making reference to it just cuz it's become a
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funny thing now it has and I just can't stop singing to you people it's true my reign is continuous Terror my rain of my
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reign of uh I don't know I think it was an elto when I sang in chorus embarrassing fact about me anyways
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bye well where we're in part two of a pretty uh pretty gnarly case here I would say we sure are I um had potatoes
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for dinner last night and you know what we didn't do didn't peel them didn't peel them didn't peel them they were
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skin has a lot of nutrients in them many fibers yeah so they many many many FIB pretty look at us this one this case is
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just it's bad all the way around yeah it's very very heartbreaking and it's just got like it's got this vibe to it I
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think with the the blackout it just adds this layer of of Darkness if you will yeah cuz you have to remember to like
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keep that in mind while you're visualizing yeah and this guy Gordon here is such a [ __ ] [ __ ] I can't
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believe his name is [ __ ] Gordo yeah Gordo cumins that's his name and I just the fact that he's like in the Army yeah
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he's an Air Force somebody that you would look to to trust during this time period oh yeah scary he's he's a real
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piece of work I tell you it I'm scared to dive back in yeah it's uh it doesn't get better but then he does get caught
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so you can hold on to that yeah like I said in uh the end of part one I'm really excited for that part so let's
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get to a girl that's always nice um so when we left off we had talked about how there was a couple of you know
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there was a close call with Katherine Mahi um there has been a few murders very gruesome very awful very brutal
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murders and as it's happening so fast like within hours of each other that like discoveries of other murders or
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assaults are happening as they are examining previous victims so like things coming at different times cuz
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he's just like every 24 hours or less yeah he's like on a rampage and when Dr spillsbury spittles my favorite guy who
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also by the way is apparently like a very very well-known forensic pathologist like the times I think at
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one point called him like you know their the real life Sherlock Holmes kind of thing oh no way like yeah he's been on
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like huge cases um like he was in like uh like I'm I'm trying to think of like any Infamous any Infamous case you can
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think of that time period in London and around there what's his last name again um spillsbury spillsbury he was a part
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of it he was known to be like very very involved in the case like he was it affected him like greatly like he these
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cases would like eat at his soul he was like a very empathetic person so like he
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just sounds like a really cool guy and like a very interesting historical figure I'd like to look further into him
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actually I know actually I just like typed in Notorious cases that he was part of yeah um the trunk
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murders the trunk murders the Brighton trunk murders I think it was yeah um there's a lot here that I actually think
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you would be really interested in yeah the brides and bath particularly speaks to me yeah there's a lot there's a lot
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that were very interesting and very horrific yeah uh but he he did his he was doing autopsies while this is all
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going on and on the autopsy of Evelyn Oley uh he confirmed unfortunately that she was alive when when most of those
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wound were inflicted that's awful um she had bled from the wounds so she was alive when they happened and as he
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examined her body it became even clear how sadistic this killer was there were 12 puncture wounds around and in her
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genital area oh god um and they seem to be done and inflicted by a tin can opener now I looked up what a tin can
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opener looked like in the 1930s cuz I assumed it was different than what I am thinking it meant to ask you yesterday
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when you were talking about it like if it was the same deal nope it's not Google tin can opener
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1930s and you will come up you'll see what it is it's basically a tiny it's a handle with like a little sickle like a
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blade that looks like a sickle on the end of it sharp it's a weapon and it's a dangerous weapon that be can be used to
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stab and not only stab but it has a curved blade so it inflicts a lot of damage and you have to think like I'm
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sure it's sharp to a point but like not really like so it takes Force to stab someone with
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it a lot of force now on February 12th which again I'm going back one day again from where we left off I would think but
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again you have to like kind of interweave the discoveries and the actual murders uh a woman named Mary
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sometimes referred to as Greta in sources uh Mary Haywood arrived in Northwest London to meet a date but
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having arrived early she decided to walk around and look at the shop Windows she
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was sitting in a cafe around 8:00 p.m. when a young Airman approached her not and said excuse me are you waiting for
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someone he would explain that she was she was waiting for someone but like he was a little late and like whatever and
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this guy convinced her to have a drink with him while they waited cuz he was very handsome charming very Charming he
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quickly tried to get uh her to come to another Pub or restaurant with him he was like just come with me for a like
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we'll be back in time for you to meet your person and at first she was like no no no but then she ended up he pushed
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harder and she was like you know what this guy's late he was handsome and and again and um she was able to tell this
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story later so just know that uh she said he was you know very handsome he had a very she she said he had a
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seductive quality about his smile a lot of people talked about his smile and how
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they they said it it made it easy for them to understand how he was able to charm women disarming yeah what's his
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last name again I'm sorry I want c m m i ns but she said he was also very overconfident like he had a very like
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arrogant way about him again she imagined he had no trouble getting many women to Come Away with him that's the
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thing sometimes I think as women we find that attractive at first of course and then it it changes yeah throughout the
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course of a relationship there is like a a certain level of overconfidence that like is appreciated yeah cuz I'm not I'm
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one to tell everybody you should be like it's not even over confidence it's just
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confident yeah just be confident in yourself like that's totally fine yeah and she said it she wasn't put off by it
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yeah she was more just like huh like this guy's really like look at him like he's really like shooting a shot like he
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doesn't even care that I'm waiting for a date he's just like I can get you to come with me but so they made their way
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to a place called trokadero and he started asking her about her life where she lived and then he quickly
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transitioned into suddenly being offputting okay because he suddenly asked her if she was a quote unquote
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naughty girl oh and would she take him somewhere say that on the first date and she was like nope and then she realized
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oh he's mistaken me for a sex worker oh okay and she was not right that's that's
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the re she was like that's not what I do so she told him no she didn't do that and he was not going to be successful
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here if that's what he was looking for because you know she was that was not her line of work and he was like oh that
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like that's fine like he's like but like i' would love to take you away anyways and she was like oh no I'm not going to
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[ __ ] you like she was literally like oh no like you're not going to be successful at paying me to do it and
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we're not going to at all so like I just met you and she was clear she was like this is not happening tonight like you
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need to be aware of this blah and she was like I'm waiting for a date like I was waiting for a date like yeah you
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came along and you're handsome and you're sure I'll grab a drink with you and we can chat and stuff and like I'm
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willing to consider you as like a let's go out sometime we're not having sex like not happening no but he persisted
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and he took out his wallet and showed her a large amount of cash and then he just kept telling her
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how he wasn't broke he could afford a lot and she was like dude that's not what I do like get go find that
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somewhere else so she the time period it's a plenty yeah she's like go ahead like I'm
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not stopping you how about it so she gets up and she's like I'm out so she goes to leave the restaurant and he
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follows her now mind you he hadn't even told her his name yet oh wow but he had given caring like neither one of them
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had really told each other their name they were just kind of like being which like whatever they were just being you
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know mysterious let's get a drink together kind of moment they're in public nothing's you know yeah crazy
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they also it's one of those time periods which like is like every time period but
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you think the world is ending so you're like let's have a little fun yeah you let's get a drink I don't give a [ __ ]
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who you are what's your name don't give a [ __ ] yeah don't care now this guy had
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been carrying as well his um Royal Air Force issued respirator with him all night like the gas mask that they had to
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carry oh okay he had it on him when he approached her I'm scared like cuz they they would have them from like training
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and stuff and like they'd go to a pub holding their bags yeah they'd be walking around with the bags yeah so he
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had that with him just remember that um and he was and it would also prove that he was definitely a serviceman like he
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wasn't pretending he wasn't you know he had the actual issued one yeah now by that point it had become dark out and
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the streets had kind of cleared out a little bit so it was like less yeah it seems like everything's
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kind of quiet it's getting dark and so she took out a small flashlight and switched it on but the man caught up to
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her and yanked the flashlight out of her hand and was like no you shouldn't use this around this area Okay and she was
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like okay I guess you're right like it can be a little shady like a little CD outside and you don't want to draw
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attention to yourself so like just kind of scoot where you need to go yeah so she was just kind of like okay like okay
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and he like kind of put it in and he didn't steal it from her he put it in her purse and was like keep it so it to
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her it seemed like he was being like Oh I'm like trying to help you oh yeah I'm looking out for you like I'm not
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stealing your flashlight then he tried again to kind of like shoot his shot by saying well you must let me kiss you
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good night I must not and then he asked her if she knew any of those like air raid shelters where the first victim was
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found in and he said nearby and he's like we could like go make out in one of those
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and she was like I don't know where one is nearby and also like I'm not going to
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go to an air raid sh shelter with you and she was like I'm not leaving to go somewhere with you like that's just not
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happening and at that he grabbed her and pulled her into an alley pushed her up against the door in a more darkened Al
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Cove and he kissed her and she said she didn't stop him right away because she was like fine okay whatever but then she
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said he got handsy uhhuh and that's when she was like dude D I have said it a million times I've been very upfront
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with you about this I don't consent to this I'm not cons I'm not having sex with you like that's not it so she told
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him to stop she was like I I was consenting to kiss you but I'm not yeah we're not going don't me like that and
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he refused to stop oh [ __ ] this [ __ ] so she later told police he tried to pull my clothes up so she tried
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to fight him but the man was very strong yeah and she said he got a hold of me by
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the throat and he started squeezing after while I lost unconsciousness so he choked her until she was unconscious but
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what's even creepier is the entire time he was choking her he was muttering like
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to her you won't you won't you won't over and over again you won't what to this day nobody has any idea what the
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[ __ ] that means you won't he just kept saying you won't that's bizarre and I wonder if it was him saying like like
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convincing himself like you won't kill her or you won't stop or one of the other like either you won't stop or you
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won't kill this one like cuz she said it was almost like a trance like thing like he was like far
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away in his own mind saying you won't so it's almost like she wasn't saying it to
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her yeah like he was saying it to himself like you won't do it this time oh to think how scary that like whole
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thing is in and of itself without the muttering and then to add the muttering to it oh poor woman so she became
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unconscious and at that time a nightporter John shine who was only 18 years old God was making his rounds and
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he heard weird noises coming from the alley and by the time he got there he could see a flashlight kind of
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flickering and he saw a pair of women's legs sticking out from a doorway so he called out to whoever was there saying
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like whoever's there like I'm I'm here I'm like I see you and this scared the [ __ ] out of the man and he ran down the
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alley away from them but it was Pitch Black so the porter with help from a few civilians helped her who she could
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Haywood could only moan at this point she could barely speak she was like choked so hard he got her to her feet
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and together they found a police officer and reported the attack okay by that time they found that her dress was
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ripped the buttons were broken like it was a very brutal like intense aggressive attack now just hours after
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Haywood had reported her assault to police another call came in and this was the one that was 22-year-old Catherine
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Mahi from part one okay um I'll give you a little rundown quickly if you forget of what happened to her that evening
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that same evening a young serviceman Airman had picked her up near picadeli um circus and traveled back to her
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apartment they were you know getting ready to begin a transaction because she was um working as a sex worker at the
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time and he got on top of her and then immediately began choking her and he had like he had actually like put his knees
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into her abdomen like she was the one with the boots still on yes cuz she managed to get his thumbs off her throat
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and he kicked she kicked him in the stomach with her boots cuz she was still wearing her boots Queen and she ran
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completely nude from her apartment into the hall and started banging on a neighbor's door screaming that she was
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being attacked and as she was being helped by some neighbors the man had come out through money at her said he
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had too much to drink kind of apologized and left and that later that night another woman would be murdered in an
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apartment just across town okay so two attacks and one Mur and then he ran on to murder another woman that's what
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makes me think that the you you won't you won't you won't was almost him like trying to tell himself you won't again
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yeah you know like it it feels weird it does now according to Neil's story who wrote The Blackout murders homicide in
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World War II and Simon Reed who wrote In The Dark the true story of the blackout
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Ripper both really great books on this case I highly highly recommend you go read them Simon we actually talked about
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he wrote a book about the death of Michael Malloy like the crazy death of Michael mooy he was wild and Simon's
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awesome his wife Katie had actually written in a listener tale that was amazing like they're awesome power
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couple yeah totally and amazing books on this case so highly highly recommend they're Linked In the show notes yay um
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books but according to their books 25-year-old Dorth J had only recently moved to London and quickly fell into
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sex work as a means of supporting herself until she could find a suitable husband okay um not long that was very
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common in this time period especially but not long not long after arriving in the city Doris had met 60-year-old Henry
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jene okay a wealthy French Hotel owner oh hell yeah um yeah and obviously much older than her a few months later the
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couple married Love Now Mo he apparently their marriage was very sweet yeah why like it's not what you would think of
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the time period first of all and the age difference right um they genuinely seemed to love each other and would say
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that like they were genuinely very happy with each other um but she was Doris would get bored with married life a lot
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I mean she's very young she's young and she's very much a like she has always kind of been like make her own way
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Scrappy on the streets kind of thing so this is one of those things where she's just having trouble settling down and
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this man is from a completely different generation I'm sure he has a completely different set of standards and he and he
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like loved her he understood that she had a life before him and like I think they had actually met in that way so
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like he was like I get it like it's but he's like you don't have to do that anymore and I don't want you to it's
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literally giving Pretty Woman it really is like he's like I don't want you to and he and so he would um he would sleep
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sometimes at the hotels that he owned and managed but he would typically stop at home to have dinner with her every
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night that'swe so they would have dinner together like she would always have soup
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on for them like they would just have this nice dinner and again she like she tried to like settle but it just it was
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a little tough so she would often fall back into sex work to make extra income or while he was away for long periods
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she would get bored and lonely and just want to go out and do it um but she would see him off the train off to the
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train and then she would go out sometimes soliciting for extra money now on February 12th the same night of the
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attack on Haywood and Mahi Doris had seen Henry off at the train and then she had done just that gone out in London
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onto the streets several acquaintances saw her that evening they spoke to her about what she was doing she seemed
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completely fine okay you know nothing out of the ordinary yeah it wasn't until the next night February 13th a little
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past 7:00 p.m. that Henry arrived home to find the dishes from the previous night's dinner still on the table and no
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reply when he called out to Doris he said she never would have left the soup bowls in such dirty on the counter in
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the sink she just never procrastinated that particular chore just wasn't something she would have done right and
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he was even more concerned with the fact that the bedroom door their bedroom door
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was locked oh now none of this was like Doris so Henry got their housekeeper next door to try to open the bedroom
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door and she couldn't okay so together they called the police and very quickly Constable William Payne and his partner
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arrived at the apartment and the officers ended up forcing their way into the bedroom and they found Doris and it
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looked like At first she might have been still asleep in bed she was completely covered in a in a blanket and a sheet PC
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Payne wrote in his report I pulled the bed clothes but slight but slightly and revealed the head of a woman pulling the
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blanket even more it revealed that it was definitely Doris in bed and she was dead and she had been wearing only her
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night dress and they said a tight bound stocking was around her neck under her chin pay wrote that a circular cut ran
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round under the left breast and the private parts appeared slashed in fact her genitals had been
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stabbed and slashed brutally and while she was alive the sheets were covered in blood oh now upon examination it was
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seen that there was also a gash on her right cheek and according to Simon reeds in the dark the true the blackout Ripper
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there was a 4in gash under her right breast and a large deep 6in gash that ran from just below her navl to right
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above her vaginal entrance and there was another 6in deep cut on the other side of her Corine and another running up her
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thigh my God and again all had bled to varying degrees so they were inflicted before during and right as she died
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right it was clear that these were inflicted by someone who was also left-handed ah again so they also found
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a Blood Stained razor a nail file and a pair of manicure scissors oh God yes now
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a nail file yeah in his statement to the Press Scotland Yard Chief superintendent
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Fred Cheryl our fingerprint extraordinaire guy he told reporters not since the Panic ridden days in 1888 when
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Jack the Ripper was abroad in the East End had London known such a reign of terror now the killer appeared to
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literally be ter ing through the Streets of London just killing women at an alarming rate and he was leaving
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basically nothing behind cuz he wasn't bringing anything with them right now but when the reports of the tax came
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from women who were escaping with their lives though there was coming descriptions of him which was helpful in
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fact um Haywood had seen her attacker very up close for an extended period of time she was like of of great help right
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they essentially had a a date together yeah she gave a very detailed descriptions he said he's between 25 and
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26 which is insane yeah and when all is said and done it's like he's like barely
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28 years old nuts and he's about 5' 8 in tall um fresh complexion Chestnut or medium brown hair wavy in front and
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Frizzy at the crown brown eyes small mouth with thin lips and he was dressed in an electric blue overcoat with thin
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gray lines and square check with fairly large collar and belt gray trous trousers and brown shoes okay wow good
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for her I was like damn I wouldn't have been able to remember all that I don't even know what I have for breakfast
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today what you may not be thinking about or you may have forgotten about though cuz you're saying okay we got a
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description but he probably looks a lot like a lot of soldiers and he's wearing the uniform it's not like he's wearing
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something you know we can easily identify he's got brown hair brown eyes like they similar haircuts yeah it's
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like what are we going to do here but what you might not be thinking about is that heywood's attacker had an Royal Air
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Force issued respirator with him all night mhm well there was a key piece of evidence left behind at the scene of her
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attack stop it in his haste when he ran away from the scene he left behind that Royal Air Force issued respirator back
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stop it like all military issued equipment the bag was stamped with service number 525 987 with a simple
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call to the records department investigators were able to identify who this belong to 28-year-old leading
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aircraftman Gordon Frederick cumins 28-year-old and what a thank goodness dumbass mistake dumb ass just left a
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whole ass identification behind and thank God that that um patrol man was walking by 18 years old at least he came
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to her rescue yeah seriously because in you'll see in Simon Reed's book that like some civilians that were around at
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that point were like well what did she think she was getting it like they assumed she was a sex worker and they
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took on the well what did she what did she expect attitude which is so shitty cuz again we say race car drivers get
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into accidents sometimes but when that happens nobody sits there and says well what did they expect well they're it's a
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human they're not expecting no they're not expecting to get murdered thank you for asking like I don't I don't think
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they expect that no uh they also shouldn't have to exactly now to the Press public and surely some of the
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investigators the murders definitely were ringing the Jack the Ripper Bell from decades earlier you know but this
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new killer appeared to honestly have accomplished in a literal handful of days what Jack the Ripper had in a span
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of months yeah which was even scarier that is scarier the murder of Evelyn Evelyn Hamilton had occurred on the
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evening of February 8th and since then the killer had murdered at least three additional women and less than a week
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and attacked multiple more um the Press reported as the circumstances of the crime bear a strong resemblance to the
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murders the police are working on the assumption that these cases are linked together MH investigators were fairly
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confident that the same man had done all of this and the women who had escaped him had been vital to now capturing him
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now on February 15th 1942 Scotland Yard investigators brought Gordon cumins in for questioning and at the time they
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only had connected him to the Haywood attack right cuz that's where they had the respirator according to cumins he
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had met her at the C Cafe as she had said but he claimed that he had been out drinking with another serviceman that
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night and had become very drunk so he had a hazy memory of whatever happened later that night oh wow that's crazy
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that works out so well for you and he he actually said he was like oh if I if I did do what you're telling me I did like
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I'm very sorry I I'll pay her like to to apologize like I'll give her money and they were like money I don't think she
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want money I don't think that's going to fix the trauma but thank you so much yeah uh he was booked on a charge of
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causing Grievous bodily harm which allowed for him to be held in jail and gave investigators time to look for any
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connection into the other attack he was probably [ __ ] himself sh his pants later that afternoon Haywood and mahe
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positively identified cumins as the man who'd attacked them but when it came to the murders he claimed he had an alibi
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that could be verified by checking the logs at the barracks it turned out that the logs did show cumins as having been
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on the base at the times the murders that were were committed but when pushed for further details his fellow soldiers
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their loyalty wavered M um there was it seems a habit of soldiers to log in and out for other soldiers yep uh when they
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wanted to get off base and they didn't get the permission to go off base that meant where the logs might have shown
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him as being on base it was unreliable at best and some of them were like oh yeah I logged him in right like he
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wasn't there yeah uh so meanwhile Detective Tom Shepard inspected cummins's room at the at the barracks to
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see if there was anything they could connect they found a fountain pen in his pocket that had that was engraved in
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Gold letters DJ Doris jene y uh he also uncovered shirts and towels with red stains on them that appeared to be blood
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and cummin denied knowing how the pen was in his possession at all never saw so crazy that I have a murder victim SP
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in my possession I never saw that and I don't know what those stains could be okay he didn't even have a good story to
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come up with on the morning of February 17th Cummins appeared before a judge at the at the Bow Street magistrates Court
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where he was formally charged for the murders of Evelyn Oley Margaret low and and Doris Jan the logs and witness
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testimony at the time convincingly showed that he was in bed at the barracks on the night of Evelyn
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Hamilton's murder okay so the prosecution was unable to connect him to that case at the time of his arraignment
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okay so again at the time they didn't feel like they had enough to say that he was lying about being in the barracks at
00:28:03
that time so they didn't add her in okay so to those who knew him this arrest for
00:28:09
multiple murders came as a shock to people yeah Not only was he well liked and respected by his fellow Airmen but
00:28:17
he had even won over his superiors for his efficiency and zel to transform himself from lowly ground crew to
00:28:24
dashing Airmen wow and also it just makes you think like yeah these people walk among us oh yeah and this is very
00:28:31
much of the time this next thing because they were also baffled at the sexual assault allegations against him because
00:28:38
at the time when psychology and motives for sexual violence were uh very badly understood sh the idea that this man
00:28:46
would have to force women to engage in sex with him seemed insane to everybody like that does happen we don't all just
00:28:53
want to [ __ ] every man we see they it's like no yeah and it's like and they said
00:28:58
Not only was he married to a beautiful young woman he was married he sure was what the [ __ ] he was also known to brag
00:29:04
endlessly about his sexual Conquest outside of the marriage oh what a douchebag he was constantly cheating on
00:29:11
his wife he never seemed to have enough sex around him he was honest yeah he looks like he has a problem I mean it
00:29:19
was constant he would go visit and his wife was like beautiful go visit his wife have dinner with her and then be
00:29:26
like oh I have to get back early to the barracks and it was because he was going
00:29:29
out to troll for other girls and it's like you have a wife right here yeah who misses you and probably would love to
00:29:36
spend some intimate time with you right but for some men it's not that it's the conquest of having multiple women it
00:29:42
makes them feel like a king in fact he even got very close to his Lieutenant's wife like had a very close relationship
00:29:50
with her and there were rumors that they were having an affair that's how like Charming this guy was wow and what he's
00:30:00
bold very bold he's bold he gets away with you imagine Lieutenant finds that [ __ ] out he'll [ __ ] you up but and there
00:30:07
was always like sexual assault accusations like floating near him when he was but no one ever pinned them on
00:30:14
him and again thought that he would never need to force himself on any woman so of course he couldn't have done it
00:30:21
and this was the culmination of what was likely a long career of quietly raping and hurting women and his looks and
00:30:29
charm getting him out of being suspected for yeah he doesn't need to but he wants
00:30:33
to that's the problem everybody he was also known to be a liar and an extreme exaggerator shocking uh he' made
00:30:40
everyone believe that he was a quote man of high class breeding but he came from
00:30:45
a pretty average beginning it wasn't low he wasn't like you know in poverty but he wasn't wealthy um his father was a
00:30:51
civil servant his mom was a housewife okay they he had a very normal childhood that's [ __ ] no one in his family
00:30:58
had anything to say about him being like uh cruel anything to be concerned about
00:31:06
wild like his parents were literally like that's so scary he was a normal kid and like they and even he said I had a
00:31:13
very normal childhood there was no abuse there was nothing so scary but it happens exactly it's not the first story
00:31:20
we've told that's been the case he always had money on him as an adult from stealing it and he waved it around and
00:31:27
bragged all the time just to be a dick and but and he had also been nicknamed at different times the count and the
00:31:33
Duke like he was like yeah growing up he was known in school to be pretty smart but he was always focused more on
00:31:41
socializing than anything else same yeah and he would go that was like his whole
00:31:45
life he would just like he was so concerned with socializing and women and yeah and that kind of thing um and he
00:31:53
would pretend to be like um an aristocrat like he wanted to be a higher class yeah guy and he would even evolve
00:32:00
his he evolved his accent to sound posher really because he wanted to like live that life so much interesting it
00:32:07
reminds me of um oh I can't think of the name of that movie but um the Leonardo DiCaprio one where he's literally um
00:32:15
Catch Me If You Can Catch Me If You Can yes yeah which is weird because Pilots Air Force yeah that is weird yeah um but
00:32:22
now in court on the day of the arraignment cumins again impressed the large crowd of press and Spectators he
00:32:29
was dressed in his full Royal Air Force uniform and you know thinking that would
00:32:33
disarm people clean cut looking handsome like dashing smile um and you know he was also being
00:32:41
charged with the assaults on Haywood and Mahi so not great that wasn't really impressive to anybody each charge was
00:32:48
read for the court the prosecutor Vincent Evans provided graphic details of the crimes committed um and when they
00:32:55
went on to the murders they talked about the the brutality of the mutilations and
00:32:59
most importantly that Gordon cumins fingerprints had been found at each scene and they had officially connected
00:33:06
those fingerprints to the scene there's that for you guys further Evidence presented at the hearing were the
00:33:11
various personal items belonging to the victims like Evelyn oley's cigarette case which had been found in C's
00:33:17
possession following his arrest as he sat in jail awaiting trial the evidence just continued piling up against him
00:33:25
great among his possessions investigators found again the pen that Doris her initials were on a second
00:33:31
cigarette case identified by Barbara low as having belonged to her mother oh there was also a bloodstained shirt The
00:33:38
Blood Stained towel detectives traced the bills he had thrown at Katherine mahe to those given to him in his recent
00:33:45
payout wow for the time that is so [ __ ] impressive the detective work here so impressive that's incredible
00:33:53
Henry jene also identified a watch that cumins was carrying in his respirator case as belonging to his wife
00:34:00
Doris um and the like when you hear about Henry and how he reacted it breaks your heart like and Barbara with her
00:34:08
mother like it's really awful and I guess the investigators did do a really really good job at dealing with Margaret
00:34:19
Low's like profession because they said her child is school AED and is involved in this so we don't want to make a big
00:34:28
deal out of what she was doing for a profession like out of respect for her daughter yeah you never should which is
00:34:34
great wow I know and it's like that feels like weirdly Progressive for the time you know like since they treated
00:34:40
sex workers so horribly at the time so it like that those were interesting little tidbits that were like and they
00:34:45
made sure to keep her from seeing the scene they kept Henry from seeing the scene like I guess they kept him out of
00:34:51
the bedroom they didn't want him to see anything um just interesting little tidbits here and there but so he was
00:34:58
stealing trophies from these women that weren't even monetarily valuable they were just for him to relive The
00:35:04
Experience like these cigarette cases were not really valuable a woman's watch watch was and it was broken like it was
00:35:10
like a it was like an old watch he just wanted it also had um he also had a comb
00:35:16
from Doris like a hair comb that was missing teeth and Henry said I know that's Doris's comb because she bought
00:35:24
it on the street from a street vendor and it was missing teeth and I told her he even said like I her
00:35:30
I'll buy you like a better one and she was like no I like this one so he stole like sentimental things yeah meaningful
00:35:37
things which is like even more [ __ ] up it is but there was also again more fingerprint evidence found at all the
00:35:44
scenes and on the murder and mutilation implements and they all matched his fingerprints and Footprints were found
00:35:49
at at least one crime scene that matched his shoes oh wow so by the end of March
00:35:54
investigators finally found the crucial crucial piece of information needed to connect him to finally the murder of
00:36:00
Evelyn uh Hamilton while processing the gas mask recover from the scene of the Haywood attack technicians found mortar
00:36:08
dust inside that matched dust found at the scene of the Hamilton murder damn again
00:36:16
1930s holy [ __ ] or like early 40s that is detective work as for his Alibi for that night where it was like shaky that
00:36:24
he was in bed but they couldn't disprove it the prosecutor believe that it would
00:36:28
have just been fabricated like they now they could officially say it was fabricated Vincent Evans said it is
00:36:34
quite possible for men in that belette which is um the uh Barracks like a room in a Barracks to leave by means of a
00:36:41
fire escape and it is suggested that is what Cummins did on that night so that he was logged in he just escaped through
00:36:48
the fire escape in response to all the charges Cummins said that is ridiculous I think you are ridiculous
00:36:57
you are very ridiculous sir that's it that Lit ridiculous like that is ridiculous it's like ooh you tried yeah
00:37:08
barely yeah you tried on that one but nope no cigar his wife was equally shocked saying she couldn't imagine him
00:37:15
doing anything to jeopardize becoming a pilot he was so like she was like nothing like would stop him from he
00:37:21
didn't think it l and she said their marriage was perfect she couldn't understand he had never shown any
00:37:27
violence that's heartbreaking meanwhile he barely came to see her and claimed it
00:37:31
was because he was focused on doing his job well but really he was running around getting sex wherever he could and
00:37:36
forcing it on people yeah but she when she saw him it was for small periods of time and he was delightful sure yeah now
00:37:43
[ __ ] trial began in late April at the Old Bailey oh I know her yep however on April 24th something shocking happened
00:37:52
well a mistrial was declared why after the jury was incorrect given access to the wrong exhibit there were they were
00:38:01
given photos from another victim's crime scene guys you were doing so well that's
00:38:07
never happened before at the Old Bailey this was the first time wow in his instructions to the Press Justice a told
00:38:14
reporters as little should be said as possible as to the reasons for the discharge of the jury so as to not taint
00:38:20
the new jury yeah I am sure that the Press can be relied upon to treat this with every discretion the full truth
00:38:26
will be published later but not until this trial is over he's like you [ __ ] better sit still and
00:38:31
quietly so that we can actually serve some justice here he's like don't be publishing theories about why there was
00:38:36
a Mist trial like he's innocent like we'll let you know later but like shut the [ __ ] up on April 27th a new jury was
00:38:43
sworn in and the Cummins trial began again with the defendant testifying on his own behalf according to Cummins on
00:38:49
the evening of February 9th he had gone out for dinner and consumed a lot of drinks and didn't recall anything after
00:38:55
leaving the restaurant around 10: p.m. that's not a great excuse yeah but he did say however that he had never been
00:39:01
to Evelyn oley's apartment and he had nothing to do with her murder or the murders of the other three women how do
00:39:07
you know if you can't remember anything exactly cummins's defense was so [ __ ] weak and the evidence against him was so
00:39:14
[ __ ] overwhelming yeah so convincing on April 29th just two days after the new trial started the jury deliberated
00:39:22
for a little more than a half hour before coming out and saying you guilty you guilty youco you basic you basic
00:39:30
they came and said you're guilty of the murder of Evelyn Oley and he was sentenced to death he was sentenced to
00:39:35
hang under the circumstances the prosecution said we're not going to pursue the other charges let's just yeah
00:39:41
we already got the death penalty a month later cummins's lead defense attorney Dian Pratt pil filed an appeal on his
00:39:48
sentence arguing that the previous judge was quote not emphatic enough in his warning to the jury that they had to
00:39:55
decide the case on the evidence alone okay prad argued that the media coverage had all but confirmed that cumin was
00:40:02
guilty making it very difficult to get an unbiased jury MH after reviewing the evidence in the Ole case the three judge
00:40:08
panel said nope we're upholding the previous ruling and we're dismissing the appeal and they told reporters that they
00:40:14
quote unhesitatingly took the view that the evidence was overwhelming yeah it sounded like it despite the outcome of
00:40:21
the trial and the appear appeal he maintained that he was innocent of all charges had nothing to do with the
00:40:26
murders even though his fingerprints were found on all the murder and mutilation weapons uh his feet his
00:40:34
Footprints were at the scenes he had their possessions in his possession and blood from them on his clothes that's
00:40:41
crazy that he didn't but yeah yeah I don't know it's a crazy frame job that's happening here wow dude on June 25th
00:40:49
1942 Gordon Frederick Cummins was hanged at wadsw worth prison just as air raid sirens signaled an incom bomb run on the
00:40:58
city oh god well isn't that a wild coincidence well the execution of the so-called blackout Ripper brought an end
00:41:06
to this particular series of brutal murders in 1942 London it didn't explain why it happened or why it received such
00:41:14
little [ __ ] coverage yeah it's crazy that this did does not get the coverage that it deserves I just broke there
00:41:20
historian hiy Ruben hold uh who some of you may like have read her book she's she's gone very deeply into Jack Ripper
00:41:27
and his victims in particular um she also has podcasts well just don't worry I'll mention them um historian hi Ruben
00:41:34
hold told a reporter in 2022 the whole fabric of London was torn up and there was so much distraction the murders
00:41:41
passed almost under the radar yeah um there was also the matter of the victim's class status and profession y
00:41:50
uh like hie said the women who were killed were vulnerable some of them were sex workers people were sympathetic but
00:41:56
as with the women killed by Jack the Ripper there was that underlying feeling what did they expect MH until recently
00:42:03
again this story has gone like kind of Forgotten uh some reporters some historians have done little pieces here
00:42:09
and there on them but I didn't know about this yeah and Ruben hold and her partner criminologist Alice fines want
00:42:17
to change that whole thing just like they wanted to change how the Jack the Ripper story was told and I think they
00:42:22
did a great job at it uh by telling it more through the victims than through the perpetrator yeah I like that um they
00:42:29
have some uh podcasts about this uh it's called let me see the blackout Ripper is
00:42:35
the podcast that she um has done she's reporting on all the victims stories going very far into each of them I
00:42:42
highly recommend going to listen to it if you want to know more about this case yeah I'm going to go and listen to it
00:42:48
now I haven't yet but I'm I plan to now that we're over the case I want to go like dive further into it um she wrote
00:42:55
the and Ruben Holt said the women he assaulted had one thing in common they were all trying to make their way in a
00:43:01
world turned upside down by War they faced the same Danger from the bombs as men but for but the upheaval affected
00:43:07
them disproportionately some sold sex some didn't but their life stories meticulously explored in every episode
00:43:14
of the blackout Ripper create a compelling portrait of the time it's just like the Jack the Ripper case when
00:43:20
you look further into the victim's lives you see like so much more to the landscape of what was going on
00:43:27
absolutely and it gives you such a bigger picture of the whole thing than just looking at it like and they died
00:43:32
and they were killed by this guy right and they were a sex worker like tell me why why were they a sex worker tell me
00:43:39
what their lives were what the time was like yeah like I think the blackout Ripper I'm excited to listen to it
00:43:44
because I I can't wait to get deeper into these women's lives and you know I think she does a good job of doing that
00:43:50
so in her books too which will will put all the stuff in the uh show notes yeah definitely uh but that is the story of
00:43:58
the blackout Ripper devast fascinating horri horrific I enjoyed your coverage but um it was a lot at
00:44:08
times upsetting it was upsetting for sure but very fascinating story yeah especially I do feel like with the Jack
00:44:16
the Ripper case and this case the setting is such a key part of the story like and I like that you took the time
00:44:24
to explain that yeah I was I was tempted to go full Jack the Ripper with this and
00:44:31
like do a wild 72-page dissertation I mean you are a ripper I held back though I held back on it a little bit uh I
00:44:39
might revisit it again to like go even deeper into some things but this is a wild one this shocked me it's wild yeah
00:44:47
damn well you know look out for that this girl just look for the next one and uh with that being said we hope you keep
00:44:53
listening and we hope you keep it Weir weird but not so weird that you do any of this and you somehow end up with a
00:45:00
ton of um murder victims possessions in your possession somehow like cuz usually
00:45:04
when that happens you're the one that did it idiot bye don't be a dick he had fish lips he did yeah
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