Season 1 · Episode 4
S1 E4: Polly the "Prostitute"
Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
October 12, 202137m 20s
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Show Notes
Standing over the corpse of Polly Nichols, police officers decided that in life she had been a prostitute. There's no evidence Polly ever sold sex, so why did the authorities reach this conclusion? And do the prejudices that warped the police hunt for the Ripper survive to this day?
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