Cover image of Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

The streets of wartime London are pitch black and the darkness offers cover to a murderer every bit as terrible as Jack the Ripper. During one awful week in February 1942 he viciously attacks women ni... Read more

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

Ranked #1

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Bad Women: The Ripper Retold coming October 5

Bad Women: The Ripper Retold coming October 5

In late 1888, five women were brutally murdered in a slum neighbourhood of London. The violent killer earned himself a n... Read more

21 Sep 2021

4mins

Ranked #2

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S1 E1: The Ripper Myth

S1 E1: The Ripper Myth

Jack the Ripper's victims were prostitutes murdered while selling sex on the streets of Whitechapel - that's what histor... Read more

5 Oct 2021

30mins

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Ranked #3

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S1 E2: Welcome to Whitechapel

S1 E2: Welcome to Whitechapel

London on August 6th, 1888 is one of the greatest cities on Earth, but the Whitechapel neighborhood is a byword for pove... Read more

5 Oct 2021

32mins

Ranked #4

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S1 E3: Polly Walks Out

S1 E3: Polly Walks Out

Polly Nichols had a husband, a young family and lived in a brand new home built by a philanthropic millionaire. Then she... Read more

8 Oct 2021

35mins

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Ranked #5

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S1 E4: Polly the "Prostitute"

S1 E4: Polly the "Prostitute"

Standing over the corpse of Polly Nichols, police officers decided that in life she had been a prostitute. There's no ev... Read more

12 Oct 2021

37mins

Ranked #6

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S1 E5: Dark Annie and the Demon Drink

S1 E5: Dark Annie and the Demon Drink

Annie Chapman and her husband were making good on their ambitions to live a comfortable, respectable life. Only... Annie... Read more

19 Oct 2021

37mins

Ranked #7

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S1 E6: The Gentlemen of the Press

S1 E6: The Gentlemen of the Press

Annie Chapman’s murder sparked fears that a crazed killer was on the loose in London, prompting the burgeoning newspaper... Read more

26 Oct 2021

31mins

Ranked #8

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S1 E7: Public Woman 97

S1 E7: Public Woman 97

Swedish farmer’s daughter Elizabeth fell pregnant out of wedlock. The authorities considered her no better than a prosti... Read more

2 Nov 2021

38mins

Ranked #9

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S1 E8: The Face of The Ripper

S1 E8: The Face of The Ripper

Elizabeth Stride was supposedly seen by several eyewitnesses in her final hours. They also saw a man with her. At last, ... Read more

9 Nov 2021

29mins

Ranked #10

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S1 E9: The Ballad of Kate Eddowes

S1 E9: The Ballad of Kate Eddowes

Kate Eddowes rejected the drudgery of conventional working class life and left the factory and hearth to roam the open r... Read more

16 Nov 2021

42mins

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