Ep. 31 - The Ripper : Part 1

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On todays episode, Genevieve will dive deep into the Jack The Ripper case and guide you down the cold, damp, cobblestone streets of 19th century Whitechapel. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case. References for today's episode: https://www.science.org/content/article/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/emma-smith.htm https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/martha-tabram-jack-the-ripper-victim.htm https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/life-and-death-of-mary-nichols.htm https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/jack-the-rippers-victims-were-not-prostitutes-says-historian-who-claims-sexist-victorian-policemen-unfairly-labelled-them/JSQ3BCTKULMV7LZVZTCVGEAISQ/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Elizabeth_Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Tabram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Nichols Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare. I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion,
0:09.1	and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise
0:16.1	spooky events from the Victorian era. Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing,
0:22.6	creepy, and oddly comforting about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener
0:30.3	discretion is advised.
0:48.4	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 31st episode. I hope that you had a wonderful week. Mine was a bit extreme. I have had my face buried in Jack the Ripper murder scenes for the last seven days, which is a lot.
0:57.1	As such, this is my very first two-parter episode. There's just far too much horrifying and gruesome
1:04.0	information to cram into one single episode here. So next week, you will find the second half of the story. This has been a
1:13.4	dozy. As part of my research, I watched a documentary on the rubber case in the tub with some
1:18.8	crackers and cheese and a lovely, spicy olive top of nod, which fell into the tub, the entire bowl.
1:25.6	I was fishing out little chunks of olives with a mesh strainer for a very, very long time.
1:31.5	I smelled like a Greek salad, even after I took a shower.
1:35.0	Suffice it to say, it has been a bumpy journey, but I am finally out of the olive-oily weeds.
1:45.2	Oh, speaking of Jack the Ripper, would you join me over here in my crypt of corrections?
1:51.7	It's a whole new segment that I'm really excited about.
1:56.4	So yeah, jumped the gun a little there last week.
2:00.3	I've learned a very important lesson, not to cry about anything that I haven't thoroughly investigated yet.
2:07.2	So here's the thing. No, Jack the Ripper is not officially unmasked as Aaron Kuzminsky through DNA evidence, despite what you also have read.
2:18.7	Someone sent me the headline literally within about 20 minutes of recording the last episode,
2:24.4	so I scrambled to get the news out, which was a gigantic mistake.
2:29.1	So let's discuss what's actually going on here with the quote-unquote unmasking of Aaron Kuzminski as Jack the Ripper
2:36.8	situation. Apart from the holes in the tests themselves, which I will discuss, there is also a
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