S1 E2: Welcome to Whitechapel

Polly Nichols had a husband, a young family and lived in a brand new home built by a philanthropic millionaire. Then she walked out on it all. Why?Surviving without a husband was almost impossible for a lone women, so Polly began a slow spiral into desperate poverty that would ev ...  Show more

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 d ...  Show more

In late 1888, five women were brutally murdered in a slum neighborhood of London. The violent killer earned himself a nickname - Jack the Ripper. But everything you think you know murders and those murdered women is wrong.

In a new 15-part series, historian Hallie Rubenh ...

It's the beginning of our Jack the Ripper saga this week as we paint a portrait of the hellish district of Whitechapel in 1888 and cover the first two of the eleven Whitechapel Murders as well as the first of what is known as the Canonical Five. Casa Bossa Nova Kevin MacLeod ( ...

"You've got to pick a pocket or two" says Fagan to Oliver Twist about the foggy streets of Victorian London where poverty and oppression abounded. Today we look at the every day crimes of Victorian London from pickpockets on omnibuses to the trauma of domestic violence with the h ...  Show more

A 19th-century London district is terrorized by a serial killer who murders and mutilates women. Each gruesome case is investigated relentlessly — but even after 133 years, the notorious Ripper’s true identity remains unsolved.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho ...  Show more