Is it a sin? A crime loving you dear like I do? If it's a crime then I'm guilty

If it's a crime, then I'm guilty.

Guilty of love in you.

Well, hello there, everyone.

Welcome to another episode of Criminal Broads a true crime and history

podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law today's subject is a bit of a stretch but bear with me we are doing a two-part series on Jack the

Ripper heard of him now listen I know what you thinking, Jack the Ripper is not a criminal broad.

Jack the Ripper is not a crime fighting broad. Have I lost my mind?

I don't think so. I don't think so. What I want to do with these next two episodes is

explore the women of Jack the Ripper and you know if you've been listening to this podcast that I like to talk about

famous crimes but maybe like the less told stories surrounding them. And I thought we could do a bit of a two-part series focusing on women involved in the Jack the Ripper case, or as this episode is going to cover, women that some people think were involved in the Jack the River case

but the rest of the world thinks definitely weren't involved.

So back in November I started researching an article that was eventually published on long reads.com

about this theory, Jill the Ripper, this theory that the Jack of the Ripper murders, which we all know, they're part of the true crime canon,

were actually committed by a woman.

I didn't take this theory particularly seriously, but I was interested in the fact that some people did in the fact that it existed at all

Anyway since writing that article I have discovered a so much more about the Jill the Ripper theory that I thought it would be worth

doing a podcast episode on it too.

There is so much more out there than I ever realized.

So many more people have talked about the theory and written about the theory than I realized.

So that's what we're going to cover in this episode.

Let me tell you a few other things before we get started.

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