Episode Revisit- Jack the Ripper (Parts 1-5)
Summary
Hosts Ash and Alayna launch a four-part series on Jack the Ripper, beginning with the grim context of 1888 Whitechapel. They detail the area’s extreme poverty, rampant sex work, and the horrific conditions of Victorian workhouses, highlighted by the Andover scandal. The episode then focuses on the first canonical victim, Polly Nichols, tracing her tragic descent into homelessness and alcoholism before her brutal murder in August 1888.
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