Welcome to Unobscured, a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Menki.

Dr. Phillips looked down at Alice's corpse.

The cries that Jack the Ripper was back to bloodletting were ringing in his ears.

It was the summer of 1889, and Dr. Phillips had a job to do.

He had to clear his head.

He had to examine the evidence.

The evil marks left on Alice McKenzie's body.

And he had to determine, like before, who might have guided the vicious blade, but killed

her.

The first thing he noticed was how shallow the cuts were.

In fact, Dr. Phillips said in his report that, after careful and long deliberation, I

cannot satisfy myself that the perpetrator of all the White Chapel murders is our man.

The mode and procedure of a cutting seemed to be different.

He had witnessed the terrible brutality visited on East End women in the fall before.

No one who had seen Mary Kelly's body would miss the difference, or so thought Dr.

Phillips.

But just to keep things interesting, Scotland Yard once again requested that Dr. Thomas

Bond come in to confirm the judgment.

But what he said started an argument that has never quite finished.

By the time Dr. Bond arrived, Alice McKenzie's body had started to decompose, and it had

been washed and handled since the first examination.

And so Dr. Bond said with confidence that the cuts across her body he saw the design

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