Season 1 · Episode 6
S1 E6: The Gentlemen of the Press
Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
October 26, 202131m 47s
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Show Notes
Annie Chapman’s murder sparked fears that a crazed killer was on the loose in London, prompting the burgeoning newspaper industry to flood Whitechapel with reporters. Those journalists wrote the first draft of Jack the Ripper’s history, and much of it survives in the story we tell today. But can we really believe those newspaper reports?
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