Who was Jack the Ripper? Or rather, who wasn’t he? Over the decades of macabre obsession, accusations have been steered towards different men identified as candidates.
In a limited series of History Hit podcast After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal, co-hosts Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling re-evaluate four of the canonical suspects linked to the infamous murders of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly.
Why were these men in particular singled out as monsters? And what was it about Victorian masculinity that so twisted the Whitechapel Murderer’s ideology of gender and of sex that he committed these crimes?
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