Was This Victorian Serial Killer WORSE Than Jack The Ripper?

Описание: At exactly the same time as Jack the Ripper, another serial killer terrorised London. Just like Jack the Ripper, all their victims were women - their dismembered bodies left floating in the Thames. This is the dark history of the Thames Torso Murders, a case which asks questions about what crimes we choose to remember and what ones we try our hardest to forget.

0:00 - Introduction: A Forgotten Serial Killer
1:37 - The Jack the Ripper Connection
2:42 - Defining the Thames Torso Murders
3:35 - London in 1888: Grime and Respectability
4:34 - The First Discovery: Rainham, May 1888
5:38 - Anatomy of a Crime: Misogyny in Victorian London
8:16 - The River Thames as a Character and Receptacle
11:03 - Anatomical Knowledge and Investigative Challenges
12:43 - The "Found Dead" Verdict and Legal Failures
15:34 - September 1888: Overlapping with the Ripper
16:41 - The Whitehall Mystery: A Torso at Scotland Yard
17:57 - Profiling the Killer: Surgeon vs. Butcher
20:18 - Why This Case Was Downplayed by the Media
21:57 - Dehumanisation and the "Male Gaze" in Police News
26:07 - The Tragic Case of Elizabeth Jackson (1889)
28:45 - Strange Connections: Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
31:57 - Medical Misogyny and Dr Braxton Hicks
33:43 - The Pinchin Street Torso (Whitechapel, 1889)
35:14 - A Timeline of Horror: 1873 to 1902
36:02 - Final Thoughts: Giving Dignity Back to the Victims

This episode was edited by Tim Arstall. Produced by Stuart Beckwith and McKenna Fernandez. Edited by Anna Brant. The senior producer was Freddy Chick. Animation by McKenna Fernandez.

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