S1 E2: Welcome to Whitechapel

S1 E2: Welcome to Whitechapel

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S1 E3: Polly Walks Out

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

S1 E4: Polly the "Prostitute"

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

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