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Nov 2021
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Reframing the Victims of Jack the Ripper

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In over a century's worth of investigation into the unsolved murders attributed to the unknown killer called "Jack the Ripper," little real attention has been paid to the five canonical victims--they've been treated as objects for dissection, not human beings with full lives.

 Author and historian Hallie Rubenhold, who published The Five in 2019 and is releasing the podcast Bad Women: The Ripper Retold with Pushkin, aims to change that narrative, and question why we've been so comfortable with it, and its implications, all along. 

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Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kim Fritz, and Kyana Burgess/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd

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