They lived full lives outside of the East End before ending up caricatures of prostitutes, deemed unworthy of respect or even research in the shadow of their killer. All of their lives can be tracked through the years: marriages and children, husbands and housing.
While Jack’s identity has remained a mystery, and finding background on an unnamed man is impossible, what isn’t impossible is finding out more about the women he murdered. #SpookySZN: ‘Root of Evil’ has an inkling as to who killed The Black Dahlia The “Prostitutes” stories Who were they? And how did the end up a victim of the coldest cold case in history? In media, Polly, Annie, Kate, Elizabeth and Mary-Jane have been reduced to nothing more than cartoons. But Rubenhold couldn’t help but ask about the other days of their lives.
FALLEN LONDON INKLING OF IDENTITY SERIAL
Their movements tracked in desperate attempts to catch a serial killer. She found in her research that the final days and moments of the five women’s lives had been painstakingly researched. So, she went on to write The Five, the first full-length biography about the lives of Jack’s five victims. In search of her next project, she couldn’t help but be drawn to the most famous prostitutes in all of history: the ones murdered by Jack the Ripper. She had previously written a book about the sex trade in the brothels of London, which was picked up and made into Hulu/Amazon’s Harlots. Rubenhold is a historian and author specializing in 18th and 19th century social history, women’s history, and prostitution. Instead of focusing on Jack, who he could be, what his motives were, how his identity has managed to evade us for over a century, this 15-part podcast “Bad Women: The Ripper Retold” is telling the stories of his victims. Phil Chalmers’ interviews with incarcerated serial killers often lead to ‘Where the Bodies Are Buried’ The Five: Polly, Annie, Kate, Elizabeth and Mary-Jane
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