#278 - In the Ripper's Shadow (Soho, London, UK)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Across October and early November 1888, when 'Jack the Ripper' slayed several women in the East End of London, a smaller and largely forgotten sexual sadist was attacking women in Soho in the West End. Masked using a series of baffling distractions, his crimes were made possible owing to the fevered frenzy in the midst of a mini media mania committed in the Ripper's shadow. But who was he, was it a hoax, or did he even exist? For those fascinated by Jack the Ripper, here's an interesting side story about a crazed sadist who committed a shocking crime spree in West London, just three miles from Whitechapel, and possibly used Jack the Ripper's crimes to cover his own.

Date: Friday 5th of October 1888 to Sunday 4th of November 1888.
Location: several across Soho/Fitzrovia/Bloomsbury.
Victims: 7 (Eliza Smyth, ‘Swiss Annie’, Jayne Jones, Emma Jewson, Alice or Anna Dedmun, ‘Minnie’ Jones and Eliza Shad)
Culprits: ?
Method of death: strangulation and mutilation

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:10.0	Today, I'm standing on Bouchier Street in Soho, W1.
0:17.0	A few paces east of the spot where Captain Ritchie was bricked. A few doors west of the last
0:24.2	plea of Henry Hall. A few doors up of the beating of baby Richard. And the same street as the
0:32.1	dog who saw it all. Coming soon to Murder Mile.
0:46.3	Formerly called Little Dean Street, Bouchier Street connects Dean Street and Wardle Street.
0:53.3	As little more than a dark drab alley, where the e-trees of Old Compton Street park their sticky oozing bins and the frequently soused empty their bladders,
0:57.0	for good reason, it's the most avoided part of Soho.
1:04.0	For those who don't watch where they're walking,
1:06.0	common items to step on in the street are usually a puddle of piddle, a splat of sick, a splash of gentleman's relish, a used condom, a pair of spoiled trousers, a pineapple-shaped butt plug, dirty syringes and feces.
1:22.6	Yet these aren't the oddest things found on this street, as back in November 1888 was found an eye,
1:32.3	a human eye, fully intact, red roar from recent trauma,
1:38.3	and bobbing about in an overflowing gutter.
1:42.3	Barely yards away, the body of Eliza Shad lay in her bed, recently dead.
1:52.0	Only no one would find her for days,
1:54.0	as with this speck of West End London, gripped by the panic
1:58.0	that an infamous East End killer was stalking the denizens of Soho.
2:02.6	They were looking the wrong way and had the wrong thing.
2:06.6	But why?
2:08.6	My name is Michael. I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile.
2:15.6	Episode 278
2:18.3	In the Ripper's Shadow.
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