Episode 24: The Women of Jack the Ripper, Part 2: THE VICTIMS

Annie Chapman and her husband.

The victims of Jack the Ripper, the most famous serial killer in the world, are known to us mostly by their autopsy photos. In the conclusion to our WOMEN OF JACK THE RIPPER series, historian Hallie Rubenhold comes on the podcast to illuminate the rough and tragically brief lives of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elisabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly—the canonical five. Hallie is the author of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper.

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Sources:

Interview with Hallie Rubenhold

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, by Hallie Rubenhold

Descriptions of the victims’ injuries are available in detail on casebook.org/victims/

Music:

“Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer.

“Funeral March in C minor, Op. posth. 72 no. 2” by Frederick Chopin, used with permission from musopen.org.